Richard Hendrickson

Richard D. Hendrickson, Ph.D., has been a part-time instructor for the UCLA Extension since Spring 2011, having taught online and on-campus classes in Writing & Reporting I, Media Law & Ethics and Sociology of Mass Communication. He is also a retired associate professor at Cleveland's John Carroll University, still active in teaching hybrid/online beginning and advanced journalism classes, and a part-time instructor for California State University, Northridge, teaching on-campus iPad classes in public affairs reporting.

From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Hendrickson was a full-time instructor of journalism, media ethics, First Amendment law and related courses and served as adviser to the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at JCU. Before that he was a reporter and editor for 40 years, serving at the Syracuse, NY, Post-Standard and with the Associated Press at Buffalo before joining the Lorain, Ohio, Morning Journal, where he had various assignments, including reporter, bureau chief, city editor, Sunday editor, editorial page editor and special projects director. He led the paper’s 1995 explanatory journalism project on Ritalin that won a national award, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.

He earned a BS in journalism (1981), MA in political science (1987) and Ph.D. in communication studies (2000) from Bowling Green State University. His dissertation research was in media monitoring of juvenile courts. His most recent publication was a chapter on "Public Journalism" in Media Issues Point/Counterpoint, published in 2013 by Vision Press.

Dr. Hendrickson is treasurer of the Los Angeles SPJ pro chapter and past president of the Cleveland SPJ pro chapter.