Christopher B. Daly

Christopher B. Daly is a veteran journalist, author, editor, scholar, lecturer, and teacher.

His latest book is "The Journalist's Companion," a fun and practical guide for working journalists.

His earlier books include "Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism," which won the 2012 PROSE Award for media&cultural studies. Now available in paperback in a second edition (2018).

Chris is also a co-author of "Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World," which won the Beveridge, Curti, and Taft prizes in history.

A graduate of Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill, Daly worked as the Statehouse bureau chief for The Associated Press in Boston, covering politics and government during the 1980s. He then served as the New England correspondent for The Washington Post (1989-1997) and has written many freelance articles and reviews for scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, and on-line sites.

Chris also writes about journalism, journalism history, politics, and other topics at his blog, www.journalismprofessor.com.

Since 1997, Daly has taught in the Journalism Department at Boston University, one of the top journalism programs in the country. A full professor, he teaches the history of journalism as well as courses on reporting techniques and other topics. His next project is a book about the role that journalism played in the careers of many of America's top poets, novelists, playwrights, painters, and photographers. Working title: "The Democratic Art."

He lives with his wife, Dr. Anne Fishel, in Newton, Mass. They have two remarkable sons.