B-Matter Cowling

Danielle Buechel
Feb. 14, 2005

Mike Cowling, a Journalism professor at UW-Oshkosh, presented a program Wednesday entitled All the News that's Fit to Print: An Insider's Look at the Venerable New York Times. Cowling shared with students, faculty and guests h is experiences in working on the desks of The New York Times. The discussion, held in Reeve Memorial Union Ballroom on the UW-Oshkosh campus featured Cowling's experiences as an employee working as a copy editor on both the National and Foreign desks of the New York Times.
Cowling has worked for various other publications including the Chicago Sun-Times where he served as a national news editor. He currently instructs courses in media ethics and editing at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he has taught for 10 years and continues to host conferences and instructional speeches in the subject of journalism.
Cowling was inducted into the Easter Illionis University Journalism Hall of Fame on Oct. 13, 2004 and he continues to write free-lance for various newspapers and magazines in Wisconsin and Illinois.