RSJ Faculty and Staff

Warren Lerude

To advance new generations of journalists dedicated to First Amendment freedoms for everyone.
To advance the art of story telling.
To help others help themselves.
To have fun with young people.

Family first, career second.
"In all things, excellence with honor," a wise newspaper publisher told me.
"Do the right thing," said another.
"Learn to laugh at yourself and you will be forever amused," said another.
Professors learn as much from students-or more-as students learn from professors.
Writing isn't hard, the late Red Smith said, you just open a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
Mal Malette of the American Press Institute in New York, later in Reston, Virgina, once told me: "Writing is good thinking put on paper through good technique."
Write tightly. "Jesus wept" does not need any helper words, such as "Jesus wept sadly."
Keep reading everything.
Think.

Teaching experience

Reynolds School of Journalism, 1981 to present

Professional experience

Pulitzer Prize winner, 1977

Frequent Juror, Pulitzer Prize, Columbia University

Former editor, publisher and president of Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal

Founding member, national advisory committee, The Newseum

Founding member, advisory committee, National Center for the Courts and Media, National Judicial College

Former member, editorial board, USA Today

Former member, board of directors, Oakland Tribune

Member, InnovAtion International Media Consulting Group Board of Directors, consultants to the World Association of Newspapers

Member, board of directors, Squaw Valley Ski Corporation

Former president, Nevada State Press Association and Nevada Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

Former chairman, California Newspaper Publishers Association Editors Conference.

Discussion leader, American Press Institute, New York City, Reston, Virginia

Former chairman, Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) Freedom of Information Committee

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