Mead Loop

Professional background

Before coming to teach at Ithaca College, Loop was national editor of the Nashville Banner newspaper. Previously, he was a copy editor at the Intelligencer Journal newspaper in Lancaster, Pa., and at the Kansas City Times and Star. He also has worked as an editor at the Ithaca Journal. He has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a bachelor's degree in television-radio from Ithaca College.

Academic publications

Loop's scholarship has been published in Mass Communication & Society; Newspaper Research Journal; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. Among his publications were award-winning refereed papers, "Creating a Journalism Culture" and "Ithaca College and Frederick Douglass Academy: A Journalism Partnership," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Academic honors

• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, paper competition honors, 2008
• Roy H. Park School of Communications inaugural Master Teacher, 2007-2008
• Park Scholar Faculty Mentor, 2008
• Journalism Department chair, 2005-2007

Society of Professional Journalists

• Campus Adviser at large, national board of directors, 2002-2005, 2007-present
• Vice President for Campus Chapter Affairs, national board of directors
• Sigma Delta Chi, national board of directors
• Founding adviser, Ithaca College chapter, 1996-present

Lambda Pi Eta

• Adviser, Roy H. Park School of Communications honor society, 2008-present