Assistant Professor
Journalism Studies

181-B Gannett Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200

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TIM P. VOS teaches courses in American journalism history, philosophy of journalism, and qualitative research methods in journalism. His research focuses on those factors that shape journalistic content and journalism as a social institution, paying particular attention to the theoretical issues of historical explanation. Vos' research intersects with media history, media sociology, media policy and political communication.

Vos is co-author of Gatekeeping Theory (Routledge) and author of book chapters on gatekeeping and media history. He has won the Leslie J. Moeller Award, a prestigious honor named for the former director of the University of Iowa School of Journalism; the Kappa Tau Alpha research award; and a top three faculty paper award from Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Vos' dissertation at Syracuse University in New York won the All-University Doctoral Prize.

Vos earned his doctorate in mass communication from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University in 2005. He holds an master’s degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Iowa (1995) and bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and political studies from Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa (1984). Vos previously served on the communication faculty at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J.

Vos spent 12 years as a broadcast journalist, during which time he interviewed every major party candidate for U.S. President and also did freelance writing for a variety of print publications.