Missouri School of Journalism: Profiles in Success: Manny Paraschos, BJ '67, MA '70, PhD '75

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Name: Manny Paraschos
Degree and Year: BJ '67, MA '70, PhD '75
Company: Emerson College
Company Web Site: http://www.emerson.edu/
Title: Professor and Director of the Graduate Journalism Program
City and State: Boston, Mass.

Manny Paraschos, BJ '67, MA '70, PhD '75

What do you do?
I'm a professor of journalism and director of the graduate journalism program at Emerson College in Boston.

How did you get your job?
I was chairman of the journalism department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock when I was alerted by friends that Emerson was looking for a faculty member with my qualifications. At the interview, I found out that they were thinking of a campus in The Netherlands and a dean to lead it. I applied and was fortunate enough to get it.

What is the best professional lesson you learned at the J-School?
To pay attention to detail, to question writers and to attribute a lot.

What advice do you have for current students?
Learn to work on many journalistic platforms, be flexible, always be curious and speak a foreign language.

What is your favorite J-School memory?
1. When Professor Sharp sent classmate Larry V.D. to find out why a dog was tied to a tree in the quadrangle area. 2. When I thought that Dean Fisher had praised one of my editorials as "pithy" to find out later he had said "pissy."

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