Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas is an assistant professor who teaches broadcast journalism with a focus on multimedia reporting at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University in Tallahassee. He also is the news director of FAMU-TV. Douglas will be a fellow at The Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was a visiting professor in multimedia at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, launched the Broadcasting major at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, Fla., and served as adjunct instructor at Miles College in suburban Birmingham, Ala. Douglas most recently was the website editor/reporter for the Lufkin (Texas) Daily News, a freelance writer and segment producer for WFLD-TV in Chicago, associate producer for the Network News Service and associate producer for KXAS-TV in Fort Worth. He also was a writer and field producer for WNBC-TV in New York, a writer for WLS-TV in Chicago, WSB-TV in Atlanta, Ga., and a reporter for Gwinnett Cable News in Georgia. His reporting career included WXVT-TV in Greenville, Miss., Washington Correspondent for Orange County Newschannel and WMAQ-AM via Medill News Service WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kans., and WBRC-FOX 6 in Birmingham, Ala., He has a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas, Austin, and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill.