Bob Mann

Lecturer

Contact Information:
512-219-1816
bobbylmann@aol.com

Bob Mann, a former newspaperman and press secretary to U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, has been an adjunct lecturer for nine years in the UT School of Journalism.

Mann holds a BS from Sam Houston State University (where he also worked the same beat at Radio Station KSAM and held the editorship of the school newspaper that Dan Rather had held more than a decade earlier), an MA from the University of Colorado, and did Ph.D. work in American Studies at The University of Maryland.

He was named chairman of the Dept. of Journalism at SMU at the age of 31 after a 10-year career in daily journalism, including as a reporter, political writer and assistant city editor at the Fort Worth Star Telegram and Dallas Times Herald.

After going to Washington, DC, in 1977 to undertake Ph.D. work he joined the staff of Cong. Bob Krueger as his press secretary and over the next decade and a half served as Krueger’s communications director during three statewide campaigns and during Krueger’s tenure in the United States Senate.

Mann also worked in Washington as a senior member of the Carter White House staff, as assistant deputy secretary of the President’s Council on Wage & Price Stability, as director of the FCC Office of Public Affairs and as senior counselor to executives of HBO and the Video Group of Time Inc. in New York.

In addition to his five years at SMU, Mann for two years held a visiting professorship at Emory & Henry College-where he received the college's Excellence in Teaching Award-and has also taught part-time at George Washington University, American University and Huston-Tillotson University.

Mann is a former president of the Dallas chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, is a frequent on-air contributor to national cable television public affairs programs, and often writes guest articles for major daily newspapers, including the New York Times. Last year he was nominated for the national Barry Bingham Senior Fellowship for "outstanding efforts in encouraging minority students in the field of journalism,"awarded by the National Conference of Editorial Writers. He is a pro bono adviser to the president of Huston-Tillotson.

Mann does a weekly commentary, “Mann About America,” on the Texas network of Air America.

Recent Courses: J315 New Media Writing and Editing