Contact:
207C Stauffer-Flint Hall
785-864-7646
pamfine@ku.edu

Pam Fine professor of journalism and Knight Chair for for News, Leadership and Community, has extensive experience as an industry and newsroom leader.

The Knight Chair professorship, which is endowed by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is committed to promoting the study and advancement of journalism and journalism education. Fine teaches reporting and other classes and works with media organizations and community groups on projects to help improve news coverage and the flow of information in communities. In 2010, she co-created the Midwest Democracy Project, a political coverage initiative with the Kansas City Star and the University of Missouri for which she received a large grant from the Ethics and Excellence Foundation. She is currently developing projects on political coverage and civic engagement.

Fine joined the faculty in May 2008 from the Indianapolis Star where was managing editor. Before that, she was managing editor and vice-president of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.

She began her newspaper career at small papers in Florida and Georgia including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where she served in a variety of roles including assistant managing editor, political editor, metro editor and reporter. She also wrote and anchored a cable TV headline service for Cox Enterprises, which owns the AJC.

Fine is on the board of the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) and has served the organization as a convention chair, ethics chair and digital news chair. She is a member of the Online New Editors organization and the Media-Bar committee of the Kansas Bar Association. She has been a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME), and Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute and a Pulitzer Prize juror four times.


She is a frequent speaker at journalism seminars and public forums.