Linda S Bowen
Professor

Brief Biography

Linda Bowen, CSUN journalism professor (2002-present) and retired Department chair (F2012-S22), chairs the California Press Foundation board and its Journalism Education Collaborative – a Department/Foundation partnership that produced the “State of Journalism Education” statewide database.

The Journalism Education Association named her to Friends of Scholastic Journalism at its Fall 2023 national conference in Boston.

Bowen taught numerous courses primarily in news reporting/writing/ethics, features, investigative reporting and led several topical senior project courses including on AI career impacts; she coordinates the annual CSUN High School Journalism Day Fall conference for young journalists and continues to lead other campus initiatives, including the 2025-27 WASC/WSCUC Steering Committee.

Her teaching focused on journalism skills, integrating media literacy concepts and fostering civic engagement through community and K-12 projects, such as the nationally recognized Media Mentors in which university students taught news skills to high school journalists. Before joining the faculty in Fall 1999, Bowen gained extensive professional reporting/editing and newsroom management experience at several California community newspapers.

She has served in many and varied leadership/advisory roles: the Society of Professional Journalists’ Los Angeles professional and student chapters, and taught journalism at Santa Barbara City College and UC Santa Barbara.

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