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.