Brian O'Donoghue

 Brian O'Donoghue

Brian O'Donoghue

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Biography

University of Alaska Fairbanks - Journalism

Alaska journalist, professor, 2013 Fulbright in India... recovering dog musher
Higher Education
Brian Patrick
O'Donoghue
Fairbanks, Alaska
To make my time count


Experience

  • University of Alaska Fairbanks, Communication & Journalism Department

    Professor of journalism, author, recovering dog musher

    I regularly teach news writing, investigative reporting and Media & Culture, the department's media literacy course. Ongoing personal projects: Writing a book about my the exoneration and release of the Fairbanks Four. Professional goal: recruiting and training students who embrace Journalism's public service mission.

  • Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    Reporter, dog musher, former Opinion page editor

    Over the years, I worked as reporter, special projects and Opinion page editor. Came and went between book projects, sled dog races and reporting gigs elsewhere. Fairbanks always pulled me back North.

  • University of Alaska Fairbanks

    Assistant professor

    Brian worked at University of Alaska Fairbanks as a Assistant professor

  • Alaska Press Club

    President and board member

    Brian worked at Alaska Press Club as a President and board member

  • Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication

    Fulbright-Nehru Scholar

    Taught post-grad reporting courses and mentored WIRE, SIMC's online news publication, during 9-month Fulbright affiliation. Found SIMC students sharp, enterprising and generally well motivated. Faculty colleagues were very helpful with my research on India's digital media.

Education

  • College of the Holy Cross

    History
    Great wars with Carlin! We held our own till the dorm went co-ed.

  • New York University

    MA

    Broadcast journalism
    Covered the Lower East Side for The Villager by day, cruised the city streets in cab 4H43 all night.

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

    BA

    History
    Studied Russian History, admired redwoods and untamed Gnomes, endured resident poets, a truly wet basement darkroom, spent good moments coasting back down into town on my 200cc Yamaha.

Publications

  • Honest Dogs

    Epicenter Press

  • Honest Dogs

    Epicenter Press

  • My Lead Dog was a Lesbian

    Vintage Press, Random House

  • Honest Dogs

    Epicenter Press

  • My Lead Dog was a Lesbian

    Vintage Press, Random House

  • Decade of Doubt: The John Hartman Murder Case

    originally published in Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

JRN 202

4.3(3)

JRNF 101

4.2(3)