Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute

Director of the Futures Lab

036 Walter Williams
Columbia, MO 65211-1200

Phone: 573-882-3434
E-mail: mckeanml@missouri.edu

Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008.

He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national andinternational levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China.

McKean also has chaired the Radio-TV News faculty at Missouri, served as web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.