PEOPLE: DAVID CUILLIER
David CuillierOffice - Marshall 328 Telephone - (520) 626-9694 E-mail - cuillier@email.arizona.edu David Cuillier joined the faculty in August 2006 as an assistant professor. Cuillier is chairman of the national Freedom of Information committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. He also is SPJ sunshine chair for Arizona, member of the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona, and a FOIA trainer for SPJ, traveling to newsrooms around the country to train journalists. Cuillier has published articles in the academic and professional literature concerning freedom of information, and has won teaching and research awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He is currently the teaching chair for the AEJMC media law division, and in 2007 he won the national Nafziger-White Dissertation Award, given annually for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of journalism and mass communication research. He has 12 years of newspaper experience, including in computer-assisted reporting and public affairs coverage. Cuillier has worked as a city hall and public affairs reporter in Washington and Idaho. He also served as an assistant city editor in Kennewick, Wash., and as city editor at The Herald, in Everett, Wash. Cuillier earned his bachelor's in journalism at Western Washington University. He received his master's and Ph. D., both in communication, from Washington StateUniversity. In May 2006, Cuillier finished his dissertation in communication at Washington State University on public attitudes toward freedom of information. Cuillier teaches courses including computer-assisted reporting, reporting public affairs, advanced reporting, and access to government information. |
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