Jack Lule

Jack Lule is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Lehigh University. He is a former endowed Iacocca Professor and Fulbright Specialist in Journalism. His research interests include digital media, globalization and media, international communication, and cultural and critical studies of news.

He is the author of four books: Persecuted: Why We Need Scapegoats (Johns Hopkins), Globalization and Media: Global Village of Babel (Rowman & Littlefield), now in its 4th edition, Understanding Media and Culture (Flatworld), in its 3rd edition, and the award-winning Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism (Guilford Press). Called “a landmark book in the sociology of news,” the book argues that ancient myths can be found daily in the stories of the news.

A former reporter, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and received the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. He taught at Lehigh since 1990 and still resides in Bethlehem.