Linda S Bowen
Professor

Brief Biography

Linda Bowen, CSUN journalism professor (2002-present) and retired Department chair (2012-22), leads California Press Foundation's Journalism Education Collaborative, a Department and Foundation partnership that produced the “State of Journalism Education” statewide database. The Journalism Education Association named her one of six Friends of Scholastic Journalism at its Fall 2023 national conference in Boston.

Prof. Bowen has taught numerous courses primarily in news reporting, writing and ethics skills sequence, features as well as investigative reporting and senior project; coordinated the annual CSUN High School Journalism Day Fall conference for young journalists for more than 15 years, and continues to lead other campus initiatives.

Before joining the faculty in Fall 1999, Bowen gained extensive professional reporting/editing and newsroom management experience at several California community newspapers. 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.

She served in leadership and advisory roles, respectively, for both 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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