Philip Seib bio

Faculty Fellow, Director of the USC Center of Public Diplomacy, Philip Seib is a professor of journalism and public diplomacy and professor of international relations.  Seib's research interests include the effects of news coverage on foreign policy, particularly conflict and terrorism issues. He is author or editor of numerous books, including:
Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy ;
The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict ;
 Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War ; Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War ;  New Media and the Middle East (2007) ;
 The Al Jazeera Effect (2008) &  Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy (2009).
Seib is also the editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy and co-editor of the journal Media, War and Conflict, published by Sage.
Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2007, Seib was a professor at Marquette University and before that at Southern Methodist University.
Contact Seib at seib@usc.edu or (213) 740-9611
Philip Seib is Lucius W. Nieman Professor of Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As holder of this endowed chair, Seib focuses on international news coverage, media ethics, and new technologies. He is also the director of Marquette’s Nieman Symposia, examining current journalism issues. Seib is author or editor of many books,
 including: Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict; and Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War. His most recent book is Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War, published in 2006, and he is working on two books about media in the Middle East. He is the series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication and is co-editor of the journal Media, War, and Conflict, published by Sage.