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About the College of Communication » Faculty
Lou Ureneck
Chair, Department of Journalism
BA, University of New Hampshire.
Lou Ureneck has broad experience as a print and online journalist. He was deputy managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, in charge of the Inquirer's front page and nightly news operation. His memoir, "Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska," (St. Martin's Press, 2007) was widely acclaimed and won the National Outdoor Book Award.
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 and a fellow at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Ureneck’s work includes the development of two websites that were named among the best-in-the-nation and a study of newspaper economics for the Nieman Foundation titled, The Business of News. He currently writes a blog for The New York Times, "From the Ground Up."
