Cowling Honored by EIU, Deservingly

Mike Cowling was inducted into the Journalism Hall of Fame at Eastern Illinois University on October 13, 2004. He had graduated from EIU with a double major in journalism and history in 1975. He received a masters degree in journalism from the University of Iowa and has served as an editor and reporter for many papers across America.

He worked for the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Sun-Times as a national editor. The Chicago Sun Times also employed him as a copy editor, which he has been working as for the New York Times on the national and foreign desks. Cowling has also worked on eight other papers in Illinois.

Cowling has done freelance work for a number of newspapers and journals, putting his history degree to good use. This work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Editor and Publisher Magazine, Journalism and Mass Communications Quarterly and The Journal of Mass Media Ethics.

Professor Cowling as taught at California State University- Fullerton and Poly Pomona before coming to the University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh. For the last ten years he has worked as an associate director at the university, teaching courses on feature writing and reporting. Cowling now teaches media ethics and editing.