Albert L. May
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs

Phone: (202) 994-9014
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: almay@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 417

Expertise

News Coverage of Government and Politics on the Local, State and National Levels

Courses Taught

JOUR 112, Advanced Reporting
JOUR 132, Campaign Reporting
JOUR 134, Washington Reporting
JOUR 196, Independent Study
JOUR 197, Internship
SMPA 199, Senior Seminar

Selected Works

May, Albert L. "The Virtual Trail: Political Journalism on the Internet," a study of how the Internet has changed the coverage of political campaigns, 2002.

Background

Al May joined the faculty of The George Washington University after 23 years as a newspaper reporter and editor. His specialty is the news coverage of government and politics on the local, state and national levels.

From 1993-97, he was the government and public affairs editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. From 1991-92, Prof. May was the newspaper's national political reporter, chronicling Bill Clinton's race for the presidency. He also was the state capitol bureau chief from 1987-90.

He joined the Atlanta newspapers in 1987, after four years as Washington Correspondent for The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C. He was The News and Observer's chief capitol correspondent from 1978-83. He began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat of Little Rock, Ark., from 1975-78. He first came to Washington in 1974 as a graduate student in the Missouri School of Journalism's Washington Reporting Program.

May has won several writing, editing and teaching awards, including a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University in 1986 and George Washington University's Morton A. Bender Teaching Award in 2001.

Education

M.A., Journalism, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1974

M.A., Political Science, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1973

B.A., History, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1970