COLUMBIA — John Merrill is probably one of the best journalism professors ever to have taught, advised and mentored students at the J-School. Edward Lambert, Earl English (no better Dean since), Bill Taft and Ralph Lowenstein are others, besides Dr. Merrill, who made a quantitative and qualitative difference in my life at the school during BJ, MA and PhD programs. Walter Williams, who signed my own father’s diploma, began the tradition.
Merrill touched lives as journalism professor
Thursday, November 15, 2007 | 10:00 a.m. CST;
updated 11:07 a.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008
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