Charles Mitchell
Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Journalism
Phone Number: (662)915-7146
Email: cdmitch1@olemiss.edu
http://meek.olemiss.edu/2010/09/13/charles-d-charlie-mitchell/

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Research Description: Charlie Mitchell is assistant dean of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media and an assistant professor. He is a 1975 graduate of Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in communication and a 1986 graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Law with a juris doctorate. He worked for The Vicksburg Post from 1975 until 1983 as a reporter and photographer and then as managing editor and executive editor from 1986 until August 2010. He was on the journalism faculty at the University of Mississippi from 1983 until 1986. He is a past president of the Mississippi Press Association and is a past president of the Mississippi-Louisiana Associated Press Managing Editors Association. His weekly column, Conversation, has won state and regional awards and also appears in more than 20 newspapers statewide. He also won awards for his reporting from Iraq and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He is a member of the Warren County and Mississippi bar associations and is admitted to practice in state and federal courts.

Honors Theses:

Quon, Madeline Taylor (2022) An iPad for Everyone: A Case Study of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Digital Transition (full text)

Weaver, Nicholas (2021) Duality in Digital Discourse: The History and Future of the American Public Forum (full text)

Edmonson, Abbey (2021) Narrative Storytelling in Conjunction with Environmental Journalism (full text)

Wilson, Lauren (2021) Theory and Practice: Selecting and Implementing Effective Framing to Present Climate Science to a Lay Audience (full text)

Scioneaux, Mason Thomas (2021) Controversy, Coverage and Cancel Culture: The Daily Mississippian's Reporting of the 2018 Ed Meek Controversy, and Related Findings (full text)

Poland, Jared (2021) Perilous Place: Personal Stories Point to Possible Solutions to Widespread Flooding in The Mississippi Delta (full text)

Slaughter, Josie Corinna (2019) A Marketing Campaign for Hunters' Home: A Home of Hope Through Integrated Marketing Communications, Secondary and Primary Research Studying the Target Audience, the Hunting and Conservation Community (full text)