Faculty

Professor Tony Rogers earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. From 1993 to 1997 he worked at the New York Daily News, one of the nation's largest newspapers, where he was the Long Island Bureau Chief and later the Deputy National News Editor. He has also been a reporter for The Associated Press, a copy editor for the Philadelphia Daily News, a police reporter and copy editor for The Capital Times in Madison, Wis., and a reporter for the Auckland Star in New Zealand. He is the author of "Newswriting on Deadline," published by Allyn & Bacon/Longman, and the founder of the "Jazz at Bucks" concert series.

Adjunct journalism instructor Lanny Morgnanesi is executive editor of The Intelligencer in Doylestown. He began his newspaper career at the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown after receiving an MA in journalism from the University of Missouri.

During his nine years at the Courier Times, he covered Lower Bucks communities, was promoted to county political reporter, wrote editorials and ended his stay as an associate editor.

He resigned to spend 18 months in China, working in the English-language section of the New China News Agency. When he returned  to the states in 1986, he took an editing  job with the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and eventually became Metro Editor. Seven years later he was named Executive Editor at The Intelligencer.

For a time, Lanny hosted a public access TV show called The Intelligencer Monthly. He served a number of years on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Press Association.
 

English Professor Stephen O'Neill, who teaches advertising copywriting, earned his B.A. in journalism and English from Duquesne University and an M.A. in English from Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked in advertising and has taught at Bucks for nearly 30 years. 

"The reporting skills I learned at Bucks have helped me earn eight first-place writing awards and a nomination for the Pulitzer prize for my newspaper. The teachers are like good newsroom editors - tough, smart and always pushing you beyond what you think you're capable of."

-J.D. Mullane, investigative reporter, Bucks County Courier Times

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