Dan Sullivan

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Economics, Yale University, 1974 -

Specialties

• media
• media management
• public policy
• health care finance and policy
• media economics
• higher education finance
• media regulation

Publications

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Publications

• “The Dual Pipeline into Journalism: Using NIE to Increase the Supply of Journalists of Color.“ Neiman Reports, Summer 2007: Sullivan, Dan.
• “Business Service Model Promotes Better Newspapers.“ Newspaper Research Journal Fall 2006: Sullivan, Dan.
• “A Review of SuperMedia by Charles Beckett.“ Journalism & Mass Communciation Quarterly, Winter 2008: Sullivan, Dan.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Director of Strategic Development and Chief Research Officer, Star Tribune, Minneapolis 1985 - 1999
• Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Arts in Health Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota 2002 - 2005
• Chair, Faculty Steering Committe for the Interdisciplinary Minor in New Media Studies 2002 - present
• Cowles Chair in Media Management and Economics, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota 1999 - present
• Chief of Competition Branch, GIPSA/OPLS, U.S. Department of Agriculture 2002 - 2003
• Expert witness, U.S. Department of Justice and others: Expert on higher education finance. 1980 - present
• Member, American Economic Association none - none
• Member, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication none - none
• Visiting Knight Professor of Journalism: School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina. Fall 2006 -

Outreach

• Advisor, Kids WIN program sponsored by Star Tribune Foundation 1999 - 2005

Research

• “Measuring the “˜Diversity of Voices’ in the Public Sphere.“ : Presented to MAPOR Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2008..
• “The Future of the News Enterprise: The Path to Making Great Journalism Great Business in the Minneapolis, March 2 -
• “The Newspaper-Broadcast Cross-Ownership Ban: A Search for a Middle Ground.“ : Presented to AEJMC Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2006.
• “A Framework for Developing New Business Models for Journalistic Enterprises.“ : Keynote address at NDN/Poynter Conference on Journalism and Business Values, St. Petersburg, 2002.
• "Developing a Strategy for Creating Future Journalists of Color": University of Minnesota IDEA grant. 2008 - 2010
• “Media Concentration and the Dynamics of Misinformation:: Research in progress.
• “Developing Measures for a Community-based Brand Strategy for Newspapers“ : Research in progress.

Courses

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Courses

• Jour 5725 - The Management of Media Organizations
• Jour 4721 Mass Media and U.S. Society
• Jour 8721 Media Organizations as Social Institutions
• Jour 3551 The Economics of New Media