Ralph Braseth
Ralph Braseth is new to Chicago. For the past eight months he has served as student media manager and clinical professor of journalism at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to that Braseth spent the past 20 years teaching journalism and helping hundreds of students at the University of Mississippi get their first journalism jobs after graduation.
As director of student media, Braseth guided student journalists in the production/publication of The Daily Mississippian, Rebel Radio, News Watch, the Ole Miss Yearbook and The DM online. Braseth is a co-founder of the Center for Innovation in College Media, a think tank and training institute focusing on “new” media at the college level. One of 10 children Braseth grew up in Seattle and has earned degrees from Western Washington University, the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the University of Mississippi.
In addition to his teaching career, Braseth worked as a television reporter in Columbia, Mo, Tri-Cities/Yakima, Wash., Jackson, Miss., Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids, Mich., and Memphis, Tenn. and for public television. Contact: rbraseth@gmail.com