Jason Offutt

Senior Instructor

Education

• M.A. Mass Communication
• B.S. Broadcasting and Film

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Mass Media
• Professional Media Writing
• Reporting
• Opinion Writing
• Ethnographic Film Study
• Photojournalism
• Sports Photography

Academic Interests

• Journalism
• Writing
• Photography
• Ghosts and stuff

Scholarly Activity

I write books—both fiction and nonfiction—using all the writing and reporting tools I teach in my courses. As of this writing, my latest novel, “So You Had to Build a Time Machine,” is ranked #4 on Kindle for Time Travel novels. All my works can be found at jasonoffutt.com. 

Other Professional Experiences

I was a newspaper reporter, editor and photographer for 17 years and the managing editor of a Kansas City-area entertainment magazine for three. I was also a syndicated newspaper humor columnist for more than two decades.

Other

I dislike the following:

• Filling out forms and other bits of time-wasting bureaucratic nonsense. I would have modified “forms” with the word “unnecessary,” but since most forms are unnecessary, it would have been wastefully repetitious.
• Being wastefully repetitious.
• Either be a pie or stop trying.
• Will Ferrell.
• Exclamation points. The only thing this overused piece of inane punctuation tells a reader is that the writer cannot, in fact, write.
• Drivers who don’t understand a four-way stop.
• A well-done steak. There’s nothing well about it.
• The fact I dragged this particular bit on so long. Sorry about that.