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Neil Ralston teaches journalism at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky., and is also on Legal Defense Fund Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists. Before joining the faculty at Western Kentucky, Ralston was an associate professor of journalism at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches (NAK-uh-tish), La. Other teaching appointments include Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. Ralston began a career in journalism in 1978 and has worked as an editor, reporter and photographer at weekly and daily newspapers in Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas. His most recent full-time reporting job was in 1985-89 when he worked for the San Antonio (Texas) Light where he covered city hall, the police, federal law enforcement agencies and the federal courthouse. Ralston has bachelor’s degrees in communication and industrial technology from Northeast Missouri State University and a master’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University where he was a fellow in the Kiplinger Program of Public Affairs Reporting. He earned a doctorate from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2002. He has been a member of the SPJ board since 2003.
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