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Former CBS correspondent to join Media Studies faculty

Wyatt Andrews to focus on journalism, news media, ethics

Award-winning former CBS Correspondent Wyatt Andrews will join the University’s Media Studies faculty next spring.

Andrews will teach courses on news media, journalism ethics and multimedia reporting, and will also mentor students interested in careers in broadcast journalism.

Andrews is the first faculty member to join the Department of Media Studies as a professor of practice — a title held for professionals who have been nationally or internationally recognized for contributions to their field.

Among his accolades are three Emmy Awards Andrews received during his career as a CBS correspondent for his coverage of the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland and the 2003 Washington sniper case.

Andrews is a University alumnus who graduated with a degree in foreign affairs.

“I consider teaching at U.Va. to be a dream job, and I am both honored by and grateful for the opportunity,” Andrews said. “My role within the media studies department will be to help our students better analyze the revolution transforming the news media and, in time, to assist the next generation of U.Va. writers and reporters to navigate and shape that revolution.”

The University currently does not have a journalism program, but Andrews will add to the Media Studies department practical journalism expertise, said Hector Amaya, chair of the Department of Media Studies.

“We have students who want to work as journalists after graduating, and it’s great to have someone who has reported at the highest levels of the field to teach our students,” Amaya said.

Amaya highlighted the wide array of courses Andrews is qualified to teach.

“Not only will [Andrews] teach them the craft of journalism, but also its ethics, how decisions are made in the newsroom, and the challenges that new production technologies are bringing to issues of ethics and journalistic objectivity.”

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