Ed Madison
Ed Madison, Ph.D has more than 30 years of professional media expertise. His multi-faceted career began as a high school intern at the CBS television affiliate in Washington, D.C. during the Watergate scandal. Shortly after graduating from Emerson College in Boston he became a founding producer at CNN. His own subsequent companies have produced projects for most of the major networks, studios and record companies in Hollywood, including Paramount, MGM, Disney, CBS, ABC, Discovery Networks and A&E.
Madison holds a Ph.D. from the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, where he teaches multimedia journalism and digital publishing. Madison is also founder of Media Arts Institute, a nonprofit organization committed to inspiring and educating digital learners and future generations of media professionals.
Most recently, Madison authored Newsworthy: Cultivating Critical Thinkers, Readers, and Writers in Language Arts Classrooms (Teacher’s College Press, 2015), which outlines journalistic learning strategies that borrow techniques from the journalism profession to better instruct students in research, reading, and writing in language arts and the social sciences classes.