Broadcast Journalism
grinde@mnstate.edu

Martin Grindeland grew up on a family farm near Mayville, N. D. He attended a one-room country school for eight years. After earning degrees from Mayville State University and the University of North Dakota, he served as a television production officer in the U. S. Air Force. Later, he earned a Ph. D. in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He taught at Illinois State University and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire before joining the faculty at MSUM in 1981. Since 1984, he has served as director of the Campus News Project, a cooperative learning environment whereby students and faculty produce a weekly television program titled "Campus News" on Prairie Public Television.

He teaches course work in television news, broadcast documentary and mass media ethics.

"Ethical leadership involves making wise, courageous and compassionate decisions. In an effort to better understand this process, my students and I build models for ethical decision making applying principles like veracity, freedom, nonviolence, fairness, objectivity, accuracy, dignity, mindfulness, utility and accountability." - mg

Photography
gudmund@mnstate.edu

Wayne Gudmundson has photographed the North Dakota landscape for 35 years. He jokingly says he’ll stay at it until he gets it right. His photographic work has appeared in eight different books and is in many permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the American Embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland.

In addition to teaching photography, Gudmundson is the director of New Rivers Press, a literary teaching publishing house located at MSUM. He also coordinates an exchange program with the University of Lincoln in England, leads an annual study tour to the British Isles and supervises the English/mass communications dual major program.

“Sitting in my tent at the foot of a volcano in eastern Iceland in a howling blizzard in the middle of July, I realized that I was a lucky man-rich with experiences made possible through my interest in photography.” - wg

Ad and PR

Public Relations
hansonc@mnstate.edu

CT Hanson grew up in North Dakota near Hope. After high school, CT spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor's degree at
Mayville State University, a master of arts from North Dakota State University and a Ph. D. from Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.

While at NDSU he served as assistant dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, chair of the Department of Mass Communications, Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, and was recognized by NDSU's Blue Key Honor Society as a Distinguished Educator. He was inducted into the North Dakota Speech and Theatre Association's Hall of Fame. He served as chair of the American Forensic Association's NIET Tournament and editor of Pi Kappa Delta's "The Forensic."

Since coming to MSUM, CT has principally taught courses in advertising and public relations, and coached the public relations team to several national
championships, and coached the 1995 advertising team to an 11th place finish in the American Advertising Federation's National Student Advertising Contest.

CT served as department chair for nine consecutive years prior to returning to the ranks of the teaching faculty in the fall of 2004. CT's primary research and teaching interests involve the planning and execution of strategic communication campaigns.

Desktop Video/Ad/Pr
johnsdan@mnstate.edu

Dan Johnson has been interested in the creative side of human experience throughout his life. His undergrad degrees are in graphic design and English, with a graduate degree in art, emphasizing computer graphics.

Dan has been teaching at the college level since 1985, concentrating on the visual aspects of communication. His interests include illustration, design, animation and video editing, with real world experience in each of these areas. Dan teaches creative photo manipulation, publication layout, interactive layout and video production. His advisees are primarily students with an emphasis in advertising or public relations.

“The human race has an innate drive to attach meaning to everything, whether subliminal or outright. It is part of our job, as communicators in the public arena, to understand and make use of this encumbrance.” - dj

Advertising
matternj@mnstate.edu

Jody Mattern grew up in a small town in central Minnesota (Verndale), completed her undergraduate work at MSUM where she played on the women’s basketball and softball teams, and received her master’s degree from NDSU.

Jody taught junior high English and coached basketball and track in Pelican Rapids, Minn., then spent 22 years in the advertising/PR field, first at WDAY television and then at the GL Ness Advertising/PR Agency. While at GL Ness, she worked in television/radio production and copywriting, then moved on to account management.

She taught at NDSU for three years before moving to MSUM in 2004. She teaches a variety of courses, but specializes in advertising.

“I’m so happy to be able to pass on to students my passion for the advertising field. It’s a fun profession, where you are rewarded for wackiness and where out of the box is where you spend your entire day.” - jm

Online Journalism
radnieck@mnstate.edu

Regene Radniecki grew up in northern Minnesota where she started her education in a one-room schoolhouse, attended Bemidji State University following high school and received her BA in journalism from the University of Minnesota.

She was a National Geographic photo intern, and spent 18 years as a staff photographer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune covering local, state, national and international stories. Her freelance work has appeared in national magazines and newspapers and in ten books. After completing a master’s degree at Ohio University, Regene served as the graphic director for the Naples, Fla., Daily News before returning to OU to work on a doctorate.

“My teaching interests are in photojournalism and online journalism. Each spring I work with a student staff to publish a new edition of the online magazine, Horizonlines.org. To keep current with what is happening in the industry, I recently returned to the newsroom as an ASNE fellow (at the San Jose, Calif., Mercury News) and to National Geographic as a faculty fellow.” - rr

Department Chair
strandm@mnstate.edu

Mark Strand grew up in a family-owned photography business in Rugby, N.D. He attended Concordia College, Moorhead, and did his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Before joining the MSUM faculty, he served the Office of Communications and University Relations at North Dakota State University as university publications editor, university photographer and special projects editor.

Professor Strand teaches courses in layout and typography, and the history of mass communications. He also advises freshmen students.

"Gutenberg's Bible, Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Magazine and a slick new Web site all depend on understanding layout and typography. This year my students and I are working on printed and electronic publications for several clients. Watch for our student gallery coming soon." - ms

Media Writing
cwilson@mnstate.edu

Camilla J. Wilson began her career covering the Vietnam War for a group of southern newspapers. An investigative reporter for the Dayton Daily News and the Minneapolis Tribune, she covered topics ranging from Federal Housing Authority swindles to Medicaid over-billing from medical transportation companies. She spent more than four years in Asia, where she worked as a foreign correspondent. She received an international journalism fellowship, sponsored by 10 major news organizations, like The New York Times.

She has more than 25 years of experience writing for regional, national and international magazines, generally on social or political issues.

She is working on her third biography for Scholastic Inc.'s Young Biography Series. Subjects include Rosa Parks and George Washington Carver.

She is also writing a non-fiction book on Vietnam, titled "The Ghost Parade: Shiloh to Saigon." The book depicts how long war lasts and how the aftermath of war affects, not only the participants, but also their descendants.

She taught previously at Mississippi State University, an alma mater. She holds masters degrees in sociology and journalism, the latter from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.