Papper Bio

Bob Papper is professor and associate chair of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations at Hofstra University. A graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, he's worked as a producer, writer and manager at television stations in Minneapolis (WCCO-TV), Washington, DC (WRC-TV), San Francisco (KPIX-TV), and Columbus, Ohio (WSYX-TV).

He's the author of the Broadcast News Writing Stylebook, the most widely-used book of its kind in the U.S., and has won more than a hundred state, regional and national awards, including five regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and a DuPont-Columbia for "Outstanding Contributions to Television."
In 2007, Papper was inducted into the Indiana AP Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He received the 2005-2006 Ball State University Award as Researcher of the Year and a Distinguished Research Award for 2006 from the College of Communication, Information and Media. Papper was the CCIM Researcher of the Year in 2004.

Papper is a past president of the Maine Association of Broadcasters and a long-time member of the National Education Committee/Education Task Force of the Radio Television News Directors Association in Washington, DC.

Papper also oversees the Annual RTNDA/Hofstra University Survey on the state of radio and television news in the United States ... and he's co-editor of Electronic News, the official journal of the RTVJ Division of AEJMC.

Email: bob.papper@hofstra.edu