Cowling B-Matter (a work in progress)

Michael Cowling is a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. He currently teaches editing, media ethics and an independent study history in the media course. He has also taught news writing, reporting and feature writing.
Graduating from Eastern Illinois University in 1975, Cowling double-majored in journalism and history. He received his master’s degree from the University of Illinois. He has been a copy editor at the Chicago Sun-Times and a national news editor at the Los Angeles Times. He has taught part time at California State university-Fullerton and at Cal Poly-Pomona. He joined the UW – Oshkosh faculty in the fall of 1994. Every summer from 1997 to 2004 he has worked as a copy editor on either the national or the foreign desk at The New York Times. He has also been an editor on their web site for 5 years.
He has conducted many editing and ethics workshops and has served as a writing coach newspapers and organizations.
Cowling was the executive secretary of the Northeastern Wisconsin Scholastic Press Association and together with the board of directives created a $500 scholarship in 2001 for high school students interested in journalism.