MIZELL LANDS ANOTHER BIG ROLE
Busy Mizell’s latest: KSU
professional-in-residence
Former BJ managing editor Mizell Stewart III has been named Kent
State’s School of Media and Journalism professional-in-residence.
Previously,
he was the Vice President of News Performance, Talent & Partnerships for
Gannett and the USA TODAY Network.
Since
his arrival in September, Stewart has begun engaging as a “consultant” to
Student Media. Beginning
in Spring 2024, Stewart will teach two classes, Media Law and Media Enterprise,
within the School of Media and Journalism.
A four-time Pulitzer Prize juror, Stewart helped lead
the team at The
Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. that won the 2006 Pulitzer Gold
Medal in Public Service for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Bowling Green
graduate Stewart, later on the Ohio university’s Board of Trustees, also is on
the boards of the National Trust for Local News, Public Agenda, the National
Press Club Journalism Institute and Journalism Funding Partners and is a member
of advisory boards for PBS Frontline and Report for America.
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