Conway retires from The Media School
Having spent the past 20 years teaching broadcast news and journalism history, professor Mike Conway, BA’83, has retired from The Media School as of the fall semester. He will continue his passion for the development and advancement of television and radio news as the director of Indiana Broadcast History Archive.
Conway earned his bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from IU while working as news director at WIUS (now WIUX) radio and as a producer for WFIU. He earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where he began his research career as a broadcast news historian. He then launched his nearly 20-year career in broadcast and television news in a variety of positions, including news director and executive producer, returning to Bloomington as a professor of journalism in 2004.
During his time at IU, he received over 20 journalism and academic awards, including the American Journalism Historians Association Book Award and regional Emmy. Conway published two books, “‘The Tunnel’ and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America” and The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940’s.”