Dale Cressman

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Dr. Dale Cressman is originally from Canada and came to the U.S. via a swimming scholarship from Brigham Young University. After his continued education, his love for the University brought him back to BYU.

Cressman was an assistant professor at Brigham Young University and news director of KBYU-TV and KBYU-FM between 1993 and 1996. He left BYU for a season to work on a PhD in communications at University of Utah, which he completed in 2003. He now provides engaging class discussion filled with animated detail and humor to teach BYU communications students.

Cressman’s most recent research is on journalism history and he has published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and American Journalism. He is currently working on articles associated with New York City newspaper buildings, the Nixon administration's relations with ABC TV News, and 1963 as the pivotal year for the development of network television news. He is also currently writing a book-length biography of Elmer W. Lower, best known as President of ABC News.

Dr. Cressman worked in television before his current instruction at BYU through jobs as a television news producer in South Bend, Indiana; an Executive Producer in Waco, Texas and Salt Lake City; as a Managing Editor in Green Bay, Wisconsin; and as a line-up editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Dr. Cressman also produced an Emmy award winning television documentary Russia: Hidden Memory, in 1995. The documentary followed the story of folklorists Galina Syseova and Deirdre Paulsen travels to remote villages of Voronezh in southern Russia, recording the songs, rituals, celebrations, dances and stories that have endured despite decades of persecution by the Soviet government. The documentary also focuses on the roles of women, religion and agricultural cycles.

In 2008, Cressman attended the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention and served as a respondent in the Radio and Television Journalism Division.

Works and Writings

• Russia: Hidden Memory. Available through BYU Creative Works
• Dale Cressman on the Web

References

• Cressman, Dale. Personal Interview. 4 Oct. 2007.
• "Outreach Program Video Collection." Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. 2007. Harvard University. 9 Nov. 2007. <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nrc/video.html>.