| 词条 | Ronald T. Farrar |
| 释义 |
| name = Ronald Truman Farrar | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1935 | birth_place = Fordyce, Arkansas, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = University of Arkansas University of Iowa University of Missouri | employer = | occupation = Journalist, academic | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = Gayle Hope Dennis | children = 2 | parents = | relatives = }} Ronald T. Farrar (born 1935) is an American journalist and academic. He was the chair of the Journalism Department at Southern Methodist University and University of Mississippi, and he later became the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Kentucky. He retired from academia as the Reynolds-Faunt Professor of Journalism at the University of South Carolina (USC) in 2001. He is the author of several academic books on journalism. As chair of the Journalism Department at the University of Mississippi in the 1970s, Farrar published misleading articles about apartheid in South Africa. In 2011, he endowed the Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award for Media in Civil Rights History at USC. Early lifeRonald T. Farrar was born in 1935 in Fordyce, Arkansas.[1][2] He graduated from the University of Arkansas, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in business in 1957.[2] He earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1962, and a PhD in History and Journalism from the University of Missouri in 1965.[2] CareerFarrar began his career as a journalist in Arkansas, first as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat in Little Rock, later as the news editor of the Daly Press in Paragould, and as the editor of the Trumann Democrat in Trumann.[2] He also worked for The Daily Iowan.[2] Farrar joined the Journalism Department at Indiana University Bloomington as an assistant professor in 1964, and later became a tenured associate professor.[1] He was the chair of the Journalism Department at Southern Methodist University from 1970 to 1973.[1] Farrar served as the University of Mississippi from 1973 to 1977.[2] As head of the department at Ole Miss, he was invited to visit South Africa by the apartheid regime.[3] According to Ron Nixon, Farrar "later wrote a number of favourable articles which suggested the country had a free press, that whites had arrived in South Africa first, and that blacks were no longer required to carry passes."[3] When he was called out by an activist, he "threatened to sue."[3] Farrar was the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Kentucky from 1977 to 1986.[1] He became the Reynolds-Faunt Professor of Journalism at the University of South Carolina in 1986,[1] and he retired from academia in 2001. In 2011, he endowed the Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award for Media in Civil Rights History at USC.[4][5] Personal lifeFarrar is married to Gayle Hope Dennis.[2] They have two children.[2] Selected works
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|title=Farrar, Ronald T(Ruman)|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/farrar-ronald-truman|website=Encyclopedia.com|accessdate=March 19, 2018}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Farrar, Ronald T.}}{{US-journalist-stub}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite news|title=Dr. Farrar Named UM Journalsm Head|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/315270827/?terms=%22ronald%2Bt.%2Bfarrar%22%2BGayla|accessdate=March 19, 2018|work=The Clarksdale Press Register|date=May 26, 1973|location=Clarksdale, Mississippi|page=5|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=Nixon|first1=Ron|authorlink=Ron Nixon|title=South Africa's Global Propaganda War|date=2016|publisher=Pluto Press|location=London, U.K.|isbn=9780745399140|oclc=959031269|pages=58}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History|website=College of Information and Communications|publisher=University of South Carolina|url=https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/journalism_and_mass_communications/mcrhs/farraraward/|accessdate=March 19, 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=The voice of civil rights|url=https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/journalism_and_mass_communications/news/2015/voice_civil_rights.php#.Wq8CKpPFLBI|website=College of Information and Communications|publisher=University of South Carolina|accessdate=March 19, 2018|date=June 5, 2015}} 9 : Living people|1935 births|People from Fordyce, Arkansas|University of Arkansas alumni|University of Iowa alumni|University of Missouri alumni|Indiana University Bloomington faculty|University of Mississippi faculty|University of South Carolina faculty |
| 随便看 |
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。