Gayle Golden, University of Minnesota

CCN Faculty Champion

Affiliated Department(s)

Center for Community

BIO

Gayle (G.G.) Golden is a Senior Lecturer, Charnley Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teacher at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. She teaches community journalism, literary journalism, magazine writing, beginning and advanced news reporting. Since 1999, she has coordinated practicum classes that place students in newsrooms in the Twin Cities for the semester as final learning experiences. She coordinates funded summer internships for students in news organizations serving marginalized communities in urban areas and has developed a growing effort to pair school-funded student interns with under-resourced rural Minnesota news outlets. She also teaches a spring class in which students cover ""hidden"" student ""communities'' through an online publication known as AccessU, an effort that has focused on areas that include disabilities, addiction and recovery, rural students, nontraditional students, Black communities, mental health diagnoses, LGBTQ+ identities and first-generation status. Golden served on the Minnesota Daily's Board of Directors for 17 years – as its director for four – and has served on university committees on educational policy, liberal education and disabilities issues. She was an award-winning science writer for The Dallas Morning News and a freelancer, with articles published in regional and national publications, including Texas Monthly and the New York Times.

Bio

Gayle (G.G.) Golden is a Senior Lecturer, Charnley Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teacher at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. She teaches community journalism, literary journalism, magazine writing, beginning and advanced news reporting. Since 1999, she has coordinated practicum classes that place students in newsrooms in the Twin Cities for the semester as final learning experiences. She coordinates funded summer internships for students in news organizations serving marginalized communities in urban areas and has developed a growing effort to pair school-funded student interns with under-resourced rural Minnesota news outlets. She also teaches a spring class in which students cover ""hidden"" student ""communities'' through an online publication known as AccessU, an effort that has focused on areas that include disabilities, addiction and recovery, rural students, nontraditional students, Black communities, mental health diagnoses, LGBTQ+ identities and first-generation status. Golden served on the Minnesota Daily's Board of Directors for 17 years – as its director for four – and has served on university committees on educational policy, liberal education and disabilities issues. She was an award-winning science writer for The Dallas Morning News and a freelancer, with articles published in regional and national publications, including Texas Monthly and the New York Times.