Brian Carroll Assistant Professor of Journalism Department of Communication Berry College biographical

Brian Carroll is an assistant professor of journalism at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, specializing in journalism, media law and digital media. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication in June 2003 under the guidance of Dr. Margaret Blanchard. Carroll also is an adjunct professor at UNC Chapel Hill, teaching the online graduate-level course, Writing for Digital Media, and he is a consultant to the trade newspaper Furniture/TODAY.

Carroll earned his B.A. with a concentration in business, also from UNC Chapel Hill, in 1987. He earned his master's in political science and public affairs from UNC Greensboro in 1992. His research interests include communication technology; law and policy; media convergence; online community; and the black press and professional baseball.

In April 2006, he was given Berry College's Teaching Excellence Award for "outstanding leadership and resourcefulness in teaching." In May 2003, Carroll was named the UNC School of Journalism & Mass Communication's outstanding Ph.D. student. He also has won several awards for his research, including the American Journalism Historians Association's "outstanding paper on a minorities topic" three times (2001, 2003 & 2004), and the McFarland-SABR Research Award in 2007. His first book, When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball, was published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in 2007. The book was a finalist for SABR's Seymour Medal, and it was named Book-of-the-Year by the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society of American Baseball Research.

Carroll is a member of the graduate honors society, Alpha Epsilon Lambda, and the national honor society for journalism and mass communication, Kappa Tau Alpha. He has been published in journals and anthologies, including the Journal of Interactive Marketing; Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies; Into the Blogosphere; Baseball and American Culture; Journalism History; American Journalism; the Journal of Communication and Social Change; and the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture.

Professionally, Carroll is e-business editor for Furniture/Today, a publication of Reed Elsevier and the furniture industry's leading trade publication. He has reported on the furniture industry for the past 15 years. Prior to being named e-business editor in April 2000, Carroll was for six years the newspaper's online editor responsible for FurnitureToday.com.

 

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