Cowles Chair in Media Management and Economics, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota: 1999 - present Chair, Faculty Steering Committe for the Interdisciplinary Minor in New Media Studies: 2002 - present Visiting Knight Professor of Journalism: School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina , Fall 2006 Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Arts in Health Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota: 2002 - 2005 Expert witness, U.S. Department of Justice and others: Expert on higher education finance , 1980 - present Chief of Competition Branch, GIPSA/OPLS, U.S. Department of Agriculture: 2002 - 2003 Director of Strategic Development and Chief Research Officer, Star Tribune, Minneapolis: 1985 - 1999 Member, American Economic Association: Member, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication: Research "Developing a Strategy for Creating Future Journalists of Color": University of Minnesota IDEA grant, 2008 - 2010 “Media Concentration and the Dynamics of Misinformation:: Research in progress, “Developing Measures for a Community-based Brand Strategy for Newspapers“ : Research in progress, “Measuring the “˜Diversity of Voices’ in the Public Sphere.“ : Presented to MAPOR Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2008., “The Future of the News Enterprise: The Path to Making Great Journalism Great Business in the: Minneapolis, March 2 “The Newspaper-Broadcast Cross-Ownership Ban: A Search for a Middle Ground.“ : Presented to AEJMC Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2006, “A Framework for Developing New Business Models for Journalistic Enterprises.“ : Keynote address at NDN/Poynter Conference on Journalism and Business Values, St. Petersburg, 2002,