TEMPE, ARIZ. - James N. Crutchfield, former publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal, has been named director of student media at Arizona State University.
Crutchfield also was appointed as the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the university's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Crutchfield, 58, stepped down from his position as publisher of the Beacon Journal after the sale of parent company Knight Ridder last year. He joined Arizona State as a visiting professor in journalism ethics this semester.
As director of student media, Crutchfield will oversee the student media department, which publishes the university's independent student newspaper, The State Press and the paper's Web edition, a weekly magazine and operates the school's TV station.
The endowed Weil family professorship is named after Louis ``Chip'' Weil, former publisher of The Arizona Republic.
Crutchfield is a graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and worked as a newspaper reporter, editor, manager and publisher for more than 30 years.
[The Beacon Journal,, Akron, OH, Saturday, March 24, 2007, page B4, col. 1]
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