A journalist with experience as an on-line editor with CNN and as a print journalist has been named as professor of journalism in the USM’s Media Studies Program.
Barbara Schlichtman, now a resident of Peak’s Island in Portland, was the former legal news editor at CNN Interactive in Atlanta, and was responsible for the daily and future news planning for the legal news section of CNN.com.
“I look forward to developing journalism courses at USM that will strengthen students’ writing skills, give them the legal knowledge required of journalists and convey the satisfaction that a career in journalism can offer,” Schlichtman said.
She taught a course titled “Women in the Media” at USM during the fall semester, 2000.
Schlichtman assigned and developed stories and maintained collaboration between interactive and broadcast divisions of CNN. Prior to joining CNN in 1999, Schlichtman had been the on-line news editor for The Advocate Online in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for two years.
From 1994 to 1997, she was the bureau chief for The Advocate in River Parishes and Florida Parishes. She started her career in journalism at Community Newspapers, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and moved to an alternative weekly paper in Milwaukee, City Edition, in 1993.
Schlichtman earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she also received her law degree in 1992.
She was the recipient of two first place awards in editing in 1998 from the National Federation of Press Women.