{"id":38,"date":"2024-01-24T05:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2024-06-28T04:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T11:30:46","slug":"director-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/who-we-are\/director-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lawrence Pintak, PhD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lawrence Pintak, PhD<\/strong> was founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University and now directs the college\u2019s International Journalism Education initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Pintak is an award-winning journalist, academic leader, and media development expert who has reported from four continents, and led projects in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and the Caucasus that support the independence and viability of journalism and journalism education. He helped found Pakistan\u2019s Centre for Excellence in Journalism, which includes the country\u2019s first professionally focused master\u2019s in journalism; served as dean of the Graduate School of Media and Communication (GSMC) at Aga Khan University while on a two-year leave from WSU to help restructure and expand the program; and directed the Arab world\u2019s leading media training center and only professionally focused graduate journalism program in the years leading up to the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Pintak has managed tens of millions of dollars in U.S. government grants, foundation support, and donor funds.<\/p>\n<p>A former CBS News Middle East correspondent, Pintak is the author of five books at the intersection of media, religion, and conflict, and was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017 for \u201cextraordinary service to the profession of journalism\u201d around the world. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies. Details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pintak.com\">www.pintak.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pintak is based abroad to be closer to Murrow&#8217;s international partners.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/international-journalism-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}