Geoff Campbell, University of Texas
CCN Faculty Champion
Center for Community News
BIO
Geoff Campbell is an award-winning instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches journalism classes. He wrote a chapter on attribution that appears in Writing for media audiences: a handbook for multi-platform news, advertising and public relations, which was published by Kendall Hunt. In 2022, he established the online news site Lone Star Sentinel to serve news desert communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and to provide journalism students with experiential learning opportunities in community journalism. Now known as Arlington Sentinel, this vehicle for the news desert initiative now focuses its coverage on Arlington, Texas, and since fall 2023 has also included work by television broadcast students. Geoff earned the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for Faculty Outside the Tenure Stream in fall 2023. He also received the Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award from the UT Arlington College of Liberal Arts in both 2013 and 2011. He is currently working on a book manuscript that explores his mother’s experience of unjust incarceration during World War II for the crime of ancestry.
Bio
Geoff Campbell is an award-winning instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches journalism classes. He wrote a chapter on attribution that appears in Writing for media audiences: a handbook for multi-platform news, advertising and public relations, which was published by Kendall Hunt. In 2022, he established the online news site Lone Star Sentinel to serve news desert communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and to provide journalism students with experiential learning opportunities in community journalism. Now known as Arlington Sentinel, this vehicle for the news desert initiative now focuses its coverage on Arlington, Texas, and since fall 2023 has also included work by television broadcast students. Geoff earned the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for Faculty Outside the Tenure Stream in fall 2023. He also received the Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award from the UT Arlington College of Liberal Arts in both 2013 and 2011. He is currently working on a book manuscript that explores his mother’s experience of unjust incarceration during World War II for the crime of ancestry.