Biography—

Scott Reinardy is the interim dean of the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Malcolm Applegate Professor in News Management and Editing. Reinardy joined the KU faculty in 2008 as an assistant professor and served as an associate dean in the school for 10 years prior to his current role.

His primary research interests include the examination of stress and burnout of journalists, organizational change in newspaper newsrooms, newsroom layoff survivors, ethical development of journalists, sports journalism and experiential education. He has presented his work at several national and international conferences for more than two decades.

Reinardy is the author of “Journalism's Lost Generation: The Un-doing of U.S. Newspaper Newsrooms,” and the co-author of “The Essentials of Sports Reporting and Writing.”

After 14 years as a reporter and editor at five different daily newspapers, Reinardy earned his doctorate in journalism from the University of Missouri in 2006 and served as an assistant professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, from 2005 to 2008.