Ernest L. Wiggins
Associate Professor
Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence

B.A. and M.A., University of South Carolina

Ernest Wiggins is a tenured associate professor of journalism.

A former reporter and editor for The State (Columbia, S.C.) and the Columbia (S.C.) Record, Wiggins joined the faculty in 1993, returning to the school from which he'd earned both his bachelor's and master's degree. Wiggins has done additional postgraduate study in social structures and social networks.

His areas of teaching and research interests are newsgathering and reporting trends, media ethics, media literacy, newsroom operations, and mass media and social justice.

He's presented research at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications national conferences and regional colloquia and the regional Popular/American Culture Association in the South. His research has been published in "Framing Public Life: Perspective on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World."

He's the adviser to the campus chapter of SPJ, a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, the American Association of University Professors and the American Civil Liberties Union.

E-mail: wigginel@mailbox.sc.edu

Office:
Phone: 803.777.3325
Fax: 803.777.4103
Room:  Coliseum 4005D

Syllabi:
Jour 335 - Reporting
Jour 506 - Mass Media Criticism

Office Hours (pdf)

On the Web :

River City Times

Culture Chronicles weblog

Dads in Ads: The "Evolution" of Fatherhood in Television Commercials, presented at Popular & American Culture Association in the South 2009 Conference