We invite you to join us in the Auditorium from 2 to 3:30 p.m. for Peter Bhatia’s public presentation and reception. We invite you to submit your feedback by Dec. 18 here: go.unl.edu/peterbhatia
Bhatia is one of five finalists who have been invited to interview for the CoJMC dean position.
ABOUT Bhatia:
Peter Bhatia, is editor and vice president/content of The Oregonian in Portland. He came to the paper as managing editor in 1993, became executive editor in 1997 and became editor on Jan. 1, 2010. With the paper’s transition to a digitally focused media company in October of this year, he became vice president/content.
He serves as president of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He was president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 2003-04.
Projects in newsrooms he has helped lead have won seven Pulitzer prizes (including four in Portland). He is a six-time Pulitzer juror. Previously, he was executive editor of The Fresno Bee, managing editor of The Sacramento Bee, editor of the York (Pa.) Dispatch and Sunday News, managing editor of the Dallas Times Herald, deputy managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner and a reporter and editor at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash.
Peter earned his B.A. at Stanford University. He served on the board of directors of the Stanford Alumni Association from 1998-2001 and currently serves on an advisory board to Stanford magazine and on the board of Stanford Associates, an organization of the university’s top volunteers. He serves on the professional advisory board to the Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman and is a past chair.
He is a member of the South Asian Journalists Association (and received its Journalism Leader Award in 2003 and was named to its Hall of Fame in 2007), the Asian American Journalists Association (from which he received a Pioneer in Journalism Award in 2004), Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists.