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Stephen Lacy
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Stephen Lacy is a professor in the Michigan State University Department of Communication and School of Journalism. He has written or co-written more than 80 refereed journal articles, 50 refereed conference papers, ten book chapters and four books. He has co-edited two other books and written numerous other articles. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Media Economics.
Professor Lacy served as director of the Michigan State University School of Journalism from 1998 to 2003 and is a former president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
He was awarded the MSU University Distinguished Faculty Award in 2000, which is the highest award given faculty members at MSU.
He received his undergraduate degree in economics (1971) from the University of Illinois at Urbana, his master’s degree in journalism (1979) from Texas A&M University at Commerce, and his Ph.D. in journalism (1984) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Before entering the academic world, he was a photographer, and he worked as an editor of three suburban weeklies and a reporter at a suburban daily near Dallas, Texas.
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