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Michael Cowling, a master's degree graduate in journalism from the University of Illinois and undergraduate from Eastern Illinois University, has made a home for himself at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in the last 10 years. His main areas of teaching are media ethics and editing but also alittle bit of news writing and some reporting. He previously taught part-time at California State University-Fullerton and at Cal Poly-Pomona.

Cowling, who met his wife Melanie while attending Eastern Illinois, has two children: Matthew, 24 and Audrey, 15.

Cowling is the executive secretary of the Northeastern Wisconsin Scholastic Press Association in which helps high school journalism students become better journalists. Professor Cowling has done some major work for several big city newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times and sveral others in the state of Illinois. Since the summer of 1997, Cowling has been devoting much of his time to working on either the National or Foreign desk at The New York Times. He had also worked as an online editor for The New York Times, reading sections fronts five nights a week.

His free-lance work includes articles and essays that both have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Editor & Publisher magazine, The Journal of Mass Media Ethics and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.