Gup named J-Department chair at Emerson College

Former Beacon Journal reporter Ted Gup has been named chair of the Journalism Department and professor of journalism at Emerson College in Boston beginning in the Fall of 2009.

Gup is the author of Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life (Doubleday, 2007), which won the 2008 Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics & Public Policy.

A former investigative reporter for The Washington Post and Time magazine, he is also the author of the bestseller, The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA (Doubleday, 2000), and is currently the Shirley Wormser professor of journalism at Case Western Reserve University.

Gup has taught at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing as a Fulbright Scholar. He has written for a wide range of publications, including Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Village Voice, Sports Illustrated, Slate, GQ, USA Today, Mother Jones, Audubon, Columbia Journalism Review, NPR and Newsweek.


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