Biography

Emmanuel (Manny) Paraschos, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Emerson College

120 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116. Tel. 617 824-7808

Dr. Emmanuel E. (Manny) Paraschos has been a professor of mass communication and journalism at Emerson College since 1988. In 1991-94, he served as the founding dean of Emerson's European Institute for International Communication in Maastricht, The Netherlands. In 1995 he was honored with Emerson College’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

Paraschos has lectured widely in Europe and the United States and taught at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he also chaired the Department of Journalism. In 1986-87, he was a Fulbright scholar in Scandinavia, where he taught at the Norwegian Institute for Journalism and lectured at universities in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Dr. Paraschos was a reporter and United Nations correspondent for Ethnikos Kyrix and Embros of Athens, Greece, and worked for the North Little Rock (Ark.) Times, the Fayette (Mo.) Democrat-Leader and The Columbia (Mo.) Missourian. Since 1994, Dr. Paraschos has been co-publisher of Media Ethics magazine. He is the founder/editor of the Journalism Students' Online News Service (JSONS).

His scholarly works have appeared in many leading journals in the United States and Europe. He is the author of the books Media Law and Regulation in the European Union (Iowa State University Press, 1998), co-author of Mass Media in Greece: Power, Politics and Privatization (Praeger, 1993) and the editor of Greece and the American Press (Krikos, 1986). He has written chapters in such books as Global Journalism (Longman, 1991), Foreign News and the New World Information Order (Iowa State University Press, 1984), Religion, Law and Freedom: A Global Perspective (Greenwood, 2000), The New World Press Encyclopedia (Facts on File, 1981), Greece Prepares for the Twenty-first Century (Woodrow Wilson Press, 1995) and the Modern Greek Studies Yearbook (University of Minnesota Press, 1991).

In 2008 he wrote the Boston journalism chapter for Sage’s Encyclopedia of Journalism and in 2009 he created a booklet and website on The Boston Journalism Trail, which identifies the locations and describes the history of 38 Boston landmarks of American journalism. America’s journalism started in Boston, where five of the first seven American newspapers were published. See: http://www.mparaschos.com/BJT2/Map.html

Since 2010, Paraschos has studied and lectured extensively on the lives of the first Greeks of Boston, which can be found on the web site:

http://www.mparaschos.com/Boston_Greeks/Cover.html

Dr. Paraschos has taught comparative media law, mass media in modern society, multimedia journalism, international mass communication, global journalism, media ethics, propaganda and the press, news reporting and editing and opinion writing.

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