James Underwood

Adjunct Professor of Journalism (1993)

Office: Phillips 106B

Phone: (O) 740-368-3651 (H) 614-876-9719 (Fax) 614-876-9756

E-mail: jim@underwoodassoc.com

Education: B.A., Bowling Green State University

Bio:

Professor Underwood has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Ohio Wesleyan University since 1993. He was elected in 1987 to the BGSU Journalism Hall of Fame. During his journalism career, Jim was a reporter, editor and Statehouse Bureau Chief for a number of Ohio daily newspapers, including The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. Among the numerous awards he won during his journalism career was the Heywood Broun Award in 1980, an honor he shares with such distinguished journalists as Pulitzer Prize winners Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post and the late Chicago columnist Mike Royko. During his journalism career, Jim received honors from numerous groups and organizations, including the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, the Ohio House and Senate, and the NAACP. In 1992, former-Ohio Gov. George V. Voinovich presented Jim with a resolution in which the governor wrote, “Few people will ever be as knowledgeable about the workings of state government, politics and journalism as Jim Underwood.”