Biography
WALTER M. BRASCH, Ph.D., an award-winning former newspaper reporter and editor in California, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio--is a university professor of journalism and mass communications, and author of a biweekly syndicated newspaper column.

He is also the author of dozens of magazine articles, several multi-media productions, and has worked in the film industry and as a copy writer and political consultant. He is the author 13 books, most of them focusing upon the fusion of historical and contemporary social issues, including Black English and the Mass Media (1981); Forerunners of Revolution: Muckrakers and the American Social Conscience (1991); With Just Cause: The Unionization of the American Journalist (1991); and Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the ‘Cornfield Journalist’: The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris (2000). He is also co-author of Social Foundations of the Mass Media (2001) and The Press and the State (1986), which was published by the American Library Association and awarded an Outstanding Academic Book distinction by Choice magazine.

During the past decade, he has won more than 80 regional and national media awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Society of Professional Journalists, National Federation of Press Women, Pennsylvania Press Club, Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association, Pennwriters, International Association of Business Communicators, Pacific Coast Press Club, and the Press Club of Southern California.

He is active in emergency management and the Counter-Terrorism Task Force, and is a governor-appointee on the Local Emergency Planning Committee.

He is a co-recipient of the Civil Liberties Award of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1996; and was honored by San Diego State University as a Points of Excellence winner in 1997. At Bloomsburg University, he earned the Creative Arts Award, the Creative Teaching Award, and was named an Outstanding Student Advisor. He was the first recipient of the Dean's award of excellence at Bloomsburg University. For the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, he was a Commonwealth Speaker.

He was president of the Keystone State professional chapter and deputy regional director of the Society of Professional Journalists, from which he received the Director’s Award and the National Freedom of Information Award. He is founding coordinator of Pennsylvania Journalism Educators, and is currently vice-president of the Pennsylvania Women’s Press Association and coordinator of the annual Pennsylvania Press Club/Pennsylvania School Press Association annual contest. He is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Author’s Guild, National Writers Union (UAW/AFL-CIO), and The Newspaper Guild (CWA/AFL-CIO). He is listed in, Who’s Who in America, Contemporary Authors, and Who’s Who in the Media.

Dr. Brasch earned an A.B. in sociology from San Diego State College, an M.A. in journalism from Ball State University, and a Ph.D. in mass communication/ journalism, with a cognate area in language and culture studies, from Ohio University.

Author's Work
THE JOY OF SAX: AMERICA DURING THE BILL CLINTON ERA
SEX AND THE SINGLE BEER CAN

Author's Work Offered Online
The Joy of Sax at AMAZON.COM and BARNES&NOBLE.COM
Sex And The Single Beer Can at AMAZON.COM and BARNES&NOBLE.COM

Author's Website
WALTERBRASCH.COM