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William J. Drummond

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Phone: (510) 642-5710

William J. Drummond's career includes stints at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, where he covered the civil rights movement, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was a local reporter, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem and later a Washington correspondent. Drummond was appointed a White House Fellow in 1976 by Gerald R. Ford, worked briefly for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and eventually became associate press secretary to President Jimmy Carter. In 1977 he joined NPR and became the founding editor of “Morning Edition.” Drummond has been honored with a National Press Club Foundation Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Journalism Excellence, and the Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists. His research interest lies in incorporating stress-reduction techniques into journalism education. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Articles and Documentaries by William Drummond

California's Urban Forests in Desert Settings
For Soundprint, Professor Bill Drummond travels out West from mountains to shore to ask: When are trees beneficial and when are they not? This 25-minute program airs as part of Soundprint's ongoing series, Tales from Urban Forests. The program broadcasts nationally on NPR beginning June 2.
Posted May 25, 2006

Equipping Journalists with Tools for Emotional Balance
For Nieman Reports, Professor William Drummond writes about a class he taught in Spring 2004 on "Emotional Balance for Working Journalists.
Posted July 1, 2004

The Haves and Have Nots
For Marketplace Radio, Professor William Drummond produces a radio piece on Marketplace Radio and KQED-FM examining the shrinking endowment at UC and other institutions of higher learning.
Posted May 21, 2003

Arc of Crisis
For SoundPrint Radio, Professor William Drummond produces a public radio documentary about teaching the "Arc of Crisis" class - a course that trained students to bring more context and meaning to reporting about the terrorist attacks and the Middle East.
Posted September 1, 2002

Classroom Cool
For SoundPrint Radio, Professor William Drummond produces a radio documentary on how technology is being jammed into all levels of the U.S. educational system
Posted September 1, 2002

What We Teach
For The Graduate School of Journalism, Professor William Drummond writes about how eleven Berkeley journalism students in the Spring 1998 Semester embarked on an experiment to rediscover the roots of community reporting.
Posted May 1, 1999

More about William Drummond:

Stressing Stress Reduction for Journalists - The San Francisco Chronicle writes about the "Emotional Balance for Working Journalists" class taught in Spring 2004 by Prof. Drummond. Also see the story in the Press Gazette in Britain.

Nasa Mission - Prof. Drummond goes on a NASA laser mapping mission as part of a radio documentary on coastal erosion.

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