Jim Haney
Instructor
Advertising and Public Relations Sequence

Jim Haney has extensive experience as a writer, editor and manager in the mass media field. He is a former newspaper editor, corporate communications specialist and public relations practitioner.

A graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Haney joined the faculty full time in 2004 after having served as an adjunct faculty member numerous times beginning in 1977. He teaches introductory and advanced writing for the mass media and has taught introductory news writing and in the news-editorial practicum.

He was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award by USC's Mortar Board honor society in 2006 and again in 2011.

Haney worked for 22 years with daily newspapers in North and South Carolina, including The Columbia Record, The State and The Item of Sumter, holding a variety of positions from reporter to managing editor and editor. He won awards for investigative reporting and editorial writing, was president of the South Carolina AP News Council and was a member of the Executive Committee of the South Carolina Press Association.

He later worked in public relations for Chernoff Newman of Columbia, primarily representing clients in the fiber optic technology sector. Before joining Chernoff Newman, he worked in corporate and marketing communications with Union Switch & Signal of Pittsburgh.

E-mail: haneyj@sc.edu

Office:
Phone: (803) 777.0206
Fax: (803) 777.4103
Room: Coliseum 3020E

Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10 a.m. – 12 noon
1 – 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday
9 – 10:45 a.m.

Syllabi:
Jour 202 - Writing for Mass Communications
Section 002

Jour 436 - Public Relations Writing
Section 001
Section 003