Mead Loop

Professional background

Before coming to teach at Ithaca College, Loop was national editor of the Nashville Banner newspaper. Previously, he was a copy editor at the Intelligencer Journal newspaper in Lancaster, Pa., and at the Kansas City Times and Star. He also has worked as an editor at the Ithaca Journal. He has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a bachelor's degree in television-radio from Ithaca College.

Academic publications

Loop's scholarship has been published in Mass Communication & Society; Newspaper Research Journal; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. Among his publications was a refereed paper, "Ithaca College and Frederick Douglass Academy: A Journalism Partnership," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national convention.

Academic honors

• Ithaca College Oracle Society, elected as faculty representative
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, paper competition honors
• American Press Institute, Journalism Educators Fellow

Society of Professional Journalists

• Campus Adviser at large, national board of directors, 2002-2005, 2007-present
• Vice President for Campus Chapter Affairs, national board of directors, 2005-2007
• Sigma Delta Chi, national board of directors, 2003-2007
• Adviser, Ithaca College chapter, 1996-present

National Scholastic Press Association

• Director, national board of directors, 2006-present