Joe Foote

Office: 3000C

Phone: (405) 325-5997

Email: jfoote@ou.edu

Education

• University of Oklahoma (BA, MA)
• University of Texas (PhD)
• Post-graduate Rotary Fellow at Bristol University, England

Background

Joe Foote is Dean and Edward L. Gaylord Chair in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. Previously, he held the Weil professorship and was Director of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Foote was the first Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. He has also taught at Cornell University and the University of Oklahoma.Before entering university teaching, Foote served as Press Secretary to Speaker Carl Albert and Administrative Assistant to Congressman Dave McCurdy.  He was a journalist at the Voice of America, KTOK Radio, and the Oklahoma News Network.

Foote is author of Live from the Trenches: The Changing Role of the Television News Correspondent  and Television Access and Political Power:  The Networks, the President, and the Loyal Opposition.

Foote has served as President of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA).  He currently is a member of the Accreditation Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC), and is Co-Chair of the World Journalism Education Council, a network of 29 journalism education associations representing six continents. He serves on the board of the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism and the advisory boards for the International News Safety Institute, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute and the Carl Albert Congressional Studies Center. He has been honored by BEA with its Distinguished Education Service Award, by the International Radio and Television Society with its Frank Stanton Award for distinguished contribution to broadcast education and by the Mass Communication and Society Division of AEJMC with its Distinguished Educator award.

Internationally, Foote has received Fulbright grants for Bangladesh and Germany and has worked on communication projects in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His most recent effort, begun in 2004, is a State Department Citizen Exchange Grant project in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan focusing on women's media leadership. 

Foote is a native of Durant, Oklahoma. He is married to Jody Bales Foote. They have three children — Jackson, Jan and Joey.