Magazine Faculty

The members of the journalism faculty are experienced professionals as well as leading academicians. Assistant Professor Lori Blachford has been a journalist for more than 20 years. She has worked for the Des Moines Register for 7 years and then moved on to magazines.

Beginning as copy editor for the Better homes & Gardens Special Interest publications, then moved to writing and editing for a variety of titles in the same group. She continues as a freelance journalist.

Kellye Carter Crocker, a visiting professional Freelance WriterEditor, joins the magazine concentration for another year teaching magazine writing. Kellye's clients include Better Homes and Gardens, Parents, Ladies' Home Journal, The Iowan and numerous other titles.

 Visiting professional Jeff Inman, a Freelance Writer, teaches writing courses and magazine publising. He has been published in Better Homes and Gardens, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Midwest Living among others.

  Associate professor Lee Jolliffe, formerly a writer for Ohio magazine and a manager in the Battelle Institute publishing division, teaches magazine graphics courses. Our magazine faculty have served on the executive board of the magazine division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and have been published in leading consumer and trade magazines and scholarly journals.