Brian Carroll Associate Professor of Journalism Department of Communication Berry College biographical

Carroll earned his B.A. with a concentration in business, also from UNC Chapel Hill, in 1987. He earned his master's in political science and public affairs from UNC Greensboro in 1992. His research interests include communication technology; law and policy; media convergence; online community; and the black press and professional baseball.

In April 2006, he was given Berry College's Teaching Excellence Award for "outstanding leadership and resourcefulness in teaching." In May 2003, Carroll was named the UNC School of Journalism & Mass Communication's outstanding Ph.D. student. He also has won several awards for his research, including the American Journalism Historians Association's "outstanding paper on a minorities topic" three times (2001, 2003 & 2004), and the McFarland-SABR Research Award in 2007. His first book, When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball, was published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in 2007 and was named a finalist for SABR's Seymour Medal. It was also named Book-of-the-Year by the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society of American Baseball Research.

In March 2010, Carroll's second book, Writing for Digital Media, is due out also from Routledge. The book teaches students how to write effectively for online audiences, whether they are crafting a story for the online face of a daily newspaper or a personal blog, while providing them with a solid understanding of the ways that the Internet has blurred traditional roles of media producer, consumer, publisher, and reader.

Carroll is a member of the graduate honors society, Alpha Epsilon Lambda, and the national honor society for journalism and mass communication, Kappa Tau Alpha. He has been published in journals and anthologies, including the Journal of Interactive Marketing; Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies; Into the Blogosphere; Baseball and American Culture; Journalism History; American Journalism; the Journal of Communication and Social Change; and the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture.

Professionally, Carroll is e-business editor for Furniture/Today, a publication of Reed Elsevier and the furniture industry's leading trade publication. He has reported on the furniture industry for the past 16 years. Prior to being named e-business editor in April 2000, Carroll was for six years the newspaper's online editor responsible for FurnitureToday.com.

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