Bio
Seth C. Lewis is an assistant professor of new media journalism in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. In 2010, as the Mike Hogg Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, he finished his Ph.D. in Journalism after conducting a case study of the Knight Foundation and its efforts to shape professional innovation in journalism. Previously he received an MBA from Barry University and a BA in communications from Brigham Young University; in 2005 he was a Fulbright Scholar to Spain.
As a former editor at The Miami Herald, Lewis studies the sociology of journalism and its ongoing innovation, placed in the context of digital technologies and cultures. After four years of doctoral work, Lewis has 11 peer-reviewed articles, 16 conference presentations, and many other works progressing toward publication. His research has been published (or is forthcoming) in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, International Journal of Internet Science, and Newspaper Research Journal. He is also the co-editor of the 2010 book “The Future of News: An Agenda of Perspectives,” and is a contributing blogger at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University.
Lewis has won honors for Top Faculty Paper (AEJMC 2008), and twice has been awarded one of the top fellowships ($25,000 per year) offered to graduate students at the University of Texas. He won the Mass Communication & Society Division Research Award ($5,000) in 2009 for his dissertation proposal, “Whither Professionalism in Journalism? Competing Logics of Media Work in an Age of Digitization and Innovation.”
At Minnesota, Lewis will teach courses on mass communication and multimedia journalism. At Texas, he taught an upper-division course on blogging, social media, and news innovation and entrepreneurship. As a journalist, Lewis was assistant sports editor at The Miami Herald, and his writing has appeared in more than a dozen magazines and newspapers. He began his career as a 16-year-old reporter for The Outlook in Gresham, Oregon.