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Mike Cowling an assciate professor at the University of Oshkosh Wisconsin spoke Wednesday in Reeve Memorial Union about a program entitled All the News that's Fit to Print: An Insider's Look at the Venerable New York Times. Cowling has taught at the university for 10 years, where he teaches media ethics, new writing and news editing. Prof. Cowling is also the executive secretary for the Northeasern Wisconsin Scholastic Press Assciation( NEWSPA). According to the the Eastern Illinois website, Prof. Cowling has spent the last five summers as copy editor on the National or Foreign Desk of the New York Times and the last five years he has spent his nights as an editor for the New York Times, reading section fronts. Earlier in his career he spent 8 years as a National news editor for the Los Angeles Times, where he taught at the University of California-Fullerton. He spent five years as a copy editor for the Chicago-Sun Times and has worked for five other newspapers in Illinois as a editor or reporter. Cowling received his bachlor's degree in Journalism and History at the University of Eastern Illinois and earned his master's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois. Cowling was also asked to speak at the University of Oshkosh Wisconsin on behalf of the "Thinking and Writing in Journalism" series which was presented by the Department of Journalism and Journalism Advisory Board. Cowlings has done freelance and editorial work for the Los Angeles Times and Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Prof.Cowling was the author " Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly", which he reviews the book "Contraversies in Media Ethics" by A. David Gordon, John M. Kittross and Carol Reuss. Cowling has a wife named Melanie.They have two childern: Matthew,24, and Audrey, 15.