MIKE MCKEAN chairs the School's Convergence Journalism Faculty as well as the MU Information Technology Committee. He is a leader in the school's partnerships with Apple Computer and Macromedia to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. McKean has conducted Internet newsroom training in the U.S., the Russian Federation and Albania and is helping to develop a converged journalism curriculum at Moscow State University. McKean is a regular panelist on Views of the News, a weekly media criticism program that airs on KBIA-FM and KBIA.org. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985.
