Cole Campbell, 53; editor, professor had a futuristic approach to the media
Cole Campbell, 53, a newspaperman and journalism professor known for his futuristic approach to media, died Friday after his vehicle overturned on an icy road in Reno.
Campbell was a former editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and became head of the journalism school at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2004.
Warren Lerude, former editor and publisher of the Reno Gazette-Journal and a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, described Campbell as “the type of journalist, as an editor and educator, who embraced the future.”
“He was leading the faculty, students and staff in defining the new technology and the continuing ethical questions that arrive not only in traditional media but in new media as well,” Lerude said.
Campbell was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a graduate of the Advanced Executive Program of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He had said his goal at the University of Nevada, Reno, was to boost the school to prominence in journalistic ethics and innovation.
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