STEPHEN K. DOIG
Walter Cronkite School
of Journalism
and Telecommunication

Arizona State University
Campus Box 871305
Tempe, Arizona
85287-1305

Telephone:  (480) 965-0798
FAX : (480) 965-7041
steve.doig@asu.edu


HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Selected as the Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University, 1996
  • Freedom of Information Award, Valley of the Sun Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, 1996
  • Responsibility In Journalism Award, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, 1990
  • Science Writing Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 1987

SHARED AWARDS FOR JOURNALISM PROJECTS

PRESENT AND PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

  • August 1996 - Present  ASU, Knight Chair in Journalism
  • October 1989 - July 1996 The Miami Herald, Associate Editor/Research
  • June 1984 - October 1989 The Miami Herald, Science Editor
  • November 1980 - June 1984 The Miami Herald, State Capital Bureau Chief
  • October 1978 - November 1980 The Miami Herald, aviation writer
  • October 1977 - October 1978 The Miami Herald, education writer
  • June 1974 - October 1977 Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal, reporter
  • August 1971 ­ May 1973 U.S. Army, Defense Information School, instructor
  • August 1970 ­ August 1971 U.S. Army, Vietnam, combat reporter

EDUCATION

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Bachelor of Arts, Government
June, 1974
 

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Precision Journalism
  • Introduction to Newswriting
  • Introduction to Media Statistics
  • Multimedia Journalism

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

  • Academic and Student Affairs Committee, College of Public Programs, ASU
  • Academic Computing Advising Committee, ASU

MAJOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED PROJECTS

"The BOMEX Files", Phoenix New Times, May, 1998. Assisted New Times writer Chris Farnsworth with an investigation of the failure of the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners to discipline dangerous doctors.

"The Money Changers", Phoenix New Times, April, 1997. Assisted New Times writer Terry Greene Sterling with a two-part investigation of the finances of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona.

"An Open Bar", Miami Herald, December, 1995. An investigation of how thousands of supposedly indigent South Florida criminal defendants use the Public Defender's office at taxpayer expense despite owning houses, luxury automobiles and other assets.

"Crime and  No Punishment", Miami Herald, August, 1994. An intensive analysis  exposing how poorly the South Florida criminal justice system is working. Winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Grand Prize and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award in 1995.

"Lost in America: Our Failed Immigration Policy", Miami Herald, December, 1993. An examination of the difficulty of fairly managing immigration in South Florida  and the nation. Winner of the 1994 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting  and the IAPA-Globe and Mail Award for In-depth Reporting from the Inter-American Press Association.

"What Went Wrong", Miami Herald, December, 1992. Statistical and geographical analysis of the damage patterns from Hurricane Andrew helped prove that a weakened building code and poor construction standards contributed greatly to the devastation. The Pulitzer Gold Medal and the Sigma Delta Chi Medal for Public Service were awarded to the Herald staff in 1993.

"Friends of the Court", Miami Herald, April, 1992. An investigation of how court-appointed defense attorneys over-bill for their work. Winner of the 1993 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.

"Dirty Dollars", Miami Herald, February, 1990. An investigation of the impact of drug money-laundering on South  Florida. Awarded the 1991 IAPA-Globe and Mail Award for In-depth Reporting from the Inter-American Press Association.
 
 

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

  • Boy Scouts of America, Journalism Merit Badge (1998,rewrite)
  • Doig, Stephen K. and South, Jeff, What Teaching Is Really Like, Uplink, (December, 1997, pp. 6-7).
  • Doig, Stephen K., State's Public Records Laws Inspire No Pride, op-ed commentary in the Arizona Republic, March 2, 1997, p. B4.
  • Doig, Stephen K., The Big One: A Computer-Driven Perspective on South Florida's Post-Storm Woes, The Quill, (Vol. 81, No. 7, September, 1993, pp. 26-27)
  • Gillmor, Dan and Doig, Stephen K., Segregation Forever?, American Demographics (January, 1992, pp. 48-51).

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

  • April, 1997. Electronic News Gathering Seminar. Two-day seminar in computer-assisted reporting and research techniques for 17 professional journalists from around the Southwest
  • May, 1997. Organized and co-moderated with Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods a televised debate between journalists and politicians regarding press fairness issues.
  • April, 1998. Electronic News Gathering Seminar. Two-day seminar in computer-assisted reporting and research techniques for 15 professional journalists from around the Southwest.
  • April, 1999. Electronic News Gathering Seminar. Two-day seminar for Arizona broadcast journalists.

TRAINING SEMINARS GIVEN

  • Arizona Associated Press Sports Editors conference (1996)
  • American Compensation Association (1997)
  • Professional Insurance Communicators of America (1998)
  • Florida Society of Newspaper Editors (1998)
  • Maynard Institute Summer Editing Program (1997 and 1998)
  • University of Nevada at Reno journalism faculty (1998)
  • San Francisco State University journalism faculty and students (1998)
  • Arizona Republic education writers (1998)
  • Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors (1998)
  • Cronkite School faculty (1998)
  • Arizona Interscholastic Press Association (1998)
  • Maynard Institute "Team Management for Editors" seminar (1999)
  • Mesa Tribune reporters and editors (1999)

INVITED PANELIST AND SPEAKER

Speaker, panelist and instructor at Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) national and international meetings in:
  • Portland (1993)
  • New York (1994)
  • San Jose (1994)
  • Miami (1995, member of local organizing committee)
  • Cleveland (1995)
  • Nashville (1997)
  • Phoenix (1997, member of local organizing committee)
  • Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (1997)
  • Indianapolis (1998)
  • Los Angeles (1999)
  • Boston (1999)
  • Los Angeles (1999)
Invited panelist at national meetings of:
  • Special Libraries Association (San Francisco, 1993)
  • American Meteorological Society (Anaheim, 1993)
  • American Association for Public Opinion Research (St. Petersburg, 1994)
  • American Society of Criminology (Miami, 1994)
  • Associated Press Sports Editors (New Orleans, 1995)
  • Society of Professional Journalists (Miami, 1996)
  • Journalism Education Association (Phoenix, 1997)
  • Environmental Writers of America (Tucson, 1997)
  • Student Publications Managing Editors, (Tempe, 1998)
  • Native American Journalists Association (Tempe, 1998)

GRANTS

  • Website development grant, College of Public Programs, ASU, 1997
  • "Private Voices, Public Choices" civic journalism grant from the Urban Studies Center, ASU, with Dr. Fran Matera and Paul Atkinson, 1998
  • "Reporting the 2000 Census", a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to support writing a guidebook for journalists on using census data, 1998
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