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Lou Ureneck

Lou Ureneck

Chair, Department of Journalism

BA, University of New Hampshire.

Lou Ureneck has broad experience as a print and online journalist. He was the deputy managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, in charge of the Inquirer's front page and nightly news operation.

Before joining the Inquirer, he was the editor and vice president of The Portland (Maine) Press Herald, which, under his leadership, developed into one of the best medium-size newspapers in the country. He was editor-in residence at the Neiman Foundation at Harvard University while pursuing a comparative study of the methods of historians and the practices of journalists. Ureneck’s work includes the development of two websites that were named among the best-in-the-nation and study of newspaper economics for the Nieman Foundation titled, The Business of News.