Biography

M.A. Antioch

Ph.D. Union Institute and University

Carl Hausman is a journalist and communications educator specializing in media and society, ethics, cultural criticism, and broadcasting. He is the author or co-author of more than two dozen books, including an investigative work on deception and doubletalk in politics, advertising, and the media, two books on ethics and press practices, several media textbooks, and six mass market non-fiction books, including one Book of the Month Club alternate. He also has written a series of novels under his pseudonym Carl Dane. His background includes professional experience as newspaper and magazine writer, TV news anchor and reporter, talk show host, magazine and newspaper writer and editor, TV producer, and voiceover announcer. Hausman has taught college courses in mass media and culture, ethics, mass communications, history of media, broadcast news writing, print news writing, feature writing, propaganda, public relations, television and radio production, media writing, public speaking, publishing, research methods, and English composition. Carl Hausman is currently Professor of Journalism at Rowan University, where he created the journalism component of a master’s program, participated in the overall development of the master’s, created nine new courses, designed an undergraduate journalism minor, participated in the design of a New Media concentration, and redesigned undergraduate curriculum to take it from a print-based model into a sequence offering tracks in new media, broadcast news, and editing and publishing. Hausman is narrator of ten audiobooks, including books about media, history, and western fiction. He is the 2021 winner of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award (Links to an external site.) at Rowan. In 2019 Hausman received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in journalism and higher education. For the past decade, Hausman has served as the National Chairman of the broadcast judging division of the National Headliner Awards, one of the United States' oldest journalism award programs.

Research Interests

Entrepreneurial journalism, new technologies, media economy, media ethics

Publications

Lies We Live By: Defeating Doubletalk and Deception in Advertising, Politics, and the Media, Routledge, 2000.

Write Like a Pro: Ten Techniques for Getting Your Point Across at Work (and in Life), Praeger, 2016.

Present Like a Pro: The Modern Guide to Getting Your Point Across in Meetings, Speeches, and the Media, Praeger, 2017.

Crisis of Conscience: Perspectives on Journalism Ethics, HarperCollins, 1992.

Crafting the News for Electronic Media: Writing, Reporting and Producing, Wadsworth, 1991.

The Decision-Making Process in Journalism, Nelson-Hall, 1990Modern Radio Production, with Fritz Messere, Philip Benoit, and Lewis B. O’Donnell, Cengage, 10th ed., 2020