Michael Cowling has been a professor at UW-Oshkosh since 1994, and he teaches such classes as Editing and Media Ethics. Cowling will be presenting a speech in Reeve on Feb. 16 titled All the news that's fit to print: An inside look at the venerable NY Times. In this speech, he will be giving an insiders view of the history and workings of the NY Times.
Cowlings received his Bachelor's Degree at Eastern Illinois University and his Master's at the University of Illinois. He studied history and journalism with an emphasis in news editorial. This gave him the background to begin a long journey of excitement and success in his career. He has held jobs at many different newspapers from around the map such as: The Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times and NY Times.
He has participated in a variety of events and has written essays. One such essay, "Surviving Changes in Ownership: How one community newspaper coped with three new owners in two years" explained how change in ownership of the Oshkosh Northwestern affected the surrounding community. He also is the executive secretary for Northeastern Wisconsin Scholastic Press Association (NEWSPA). In 2001 he helped to form a $500 scholarship through NEWSPA to reward high school students who would be pursuing a journalism career and to bring minority students into the field of journalism. This scholarship is called the Diversity in Journalism Scholarship. During the fall of 2003 he took a sabbatical to study Pulitzer Prizes awarded to the NY Times. He also is part of the UW-Oshkosh Film & Society Club.
In October 2004, Cowlings was inducted into the journalism hall of fame at Eastern Illinois University. Although he has a stable career in Oshkosh, he continues to do free-lance work for a variety of newspapers.
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