Richard Jackson

Assistant Professor of Journalism
B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1977
M.A., University of Washington, 1995
At SPU since 1995.

Email: rjackson@spu.edu

Phone: 206-281-2292

Office: Marston 204

Rick Jackson teaches courses in media writing, editing, mass media, law and ethics. He also advises SPU’s award-winning student newspaper, The Falcon. Before joining the faculty at SPU, he worked in daily newspapers as a copy editor and reporter. Jackson is researching the history of journalistic writing and how journalists seek to affirm their cultural authority through the construction of their stories. You can read his blog, Signs of Grace, an exploration of the intersections between faith, culture and media.