Farooq Kperogi is a Full Professor of Journalism, author, journalist, and researcher based in Greater Atlanta, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Public Communication from Georgia State
University's Department of Communication where he taught journalism for 5 years
and won the top Ph.D. student prize called the "Outstanding Academic
Achievement in Graduate Studies Award."
He earned his Master of Science
degree in Communication (with a minor in English) from the University of Louisiana
at Lafayette and won the Outstanding Master's Student in Communication Award.
He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication (with minors in
English and Political Science) from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, where he
won the Nigerian Television Authority Prize for the Best Graduating Student.
He previously worked as a staff writer, reporter, news editor, and features editor (mostly at the Daily Trust, the New Nigerian, Katsina Newsweek, and the Daily Triumph), a researcher at the Presidential Research and Communications Unit in the (Nigerian) President's office (between 2002 and 2004), and as a part-time journalism lecturer at the Kaduna Polytechnic in Nigeria before relocating to the United States.
In April 2014, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Department of Communication honored him as its "Outstanding Alumnus." And in 2016 and 2017, he was honored with Kennesaw State University's School of Communication and Media's Outstanding Research and Creativity Award.
His research has also won international awards, such as the 2016 "Top-Rated Research Paper Award" at the 17th Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, and at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Canada in 2019. For a full list of his awards and honors, check this link.
He teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in communication, including News Reporting and Writing, Advanced Media Writing, Concepts in New Media, Introduction to Mass Communication, Principles of Human Communication, Media Management, Research Methods, Speech Communication, Public Speaking, Global Journalism, Survey of Global Communication, Communication Theory, Media Law, Journalism History, Communication and Technology, and Multimedia Journalism.
Professor Kperogi's scholarly articles on a wide range of communication topics such as online journalism, alternative and citizen journalism, diasporic media, journalistic objectivity, public sphere theory, indigenous language newspaper publishing in Africa, cybercrime, international English usage, online sociality of digital migratory elites, social media journalism, and media theory have appeared in The Review of Communication, New Media & Society, Journal of Global Mass Communication, Journal of Communications Media Studies, Asia Pacific Media Educator, International Symposium on Online Journalism Journal, Howard Journal of Communications, Journal of Communication Inquiry, the Central European Political Science Review and in several book chapters. (See a sample of his published scholarly works here).
He is also the author of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World (Peter Lang, 2015) and Nigeria's Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation (Rochester University Press, 2020), which is the 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner, a prestigious international award, and Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa (Routledge, 2022).
He was Managing Editor of the Atlanta Review of
Journalism History, a refereed academic journal. He was also Associate Director
of Research at Georgia State University's Center for International Media
Education (CIME) for four years.
He is currently Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media at the School of Communication and Media, Kennesaw State
University, Georgia's fastest-growing and second largest university. (Kennesaw
is a suburb of Atlanta).
For more than 13 years, Professor Kperogi wrote two weekly newspaper
columns: "Notes From Atlanta" in the Abuja-based Daily Trust on
Saturday (formerly Weekly Trust) and "Politics of Grammar" in the
Daily Trust on Sunday (formerly Sunday Trust), which are archived on this blog.
From October 2018, he started a back page political column in the Nigerian Tribune, Nigeria's oldest surviving privately-owned newspaper, which is simultaneously published here.
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