The Golden Age of Data: Media Analytics in Study & Practice

Don A. Grady, Ph.D., is an Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Elon University. He served as chair of the BEA Research Symposium (The Golden Age of Data: Big Data and Media Analytics) in April 2018, and panel chair for the BEA Media Analytics Roundtable (Media Analytics: Tracking Audiences in an Evolving Media Landscape) in April 2016. He has numerous years of administrative leadership, teaching, and professional experience in broadcast journalism, radio, and television. He regularly teaches a senior capstone research course, oversees the publication of an online undergraduate research journal, and helped to guide the development of an undergraduate major in media analytics. He has given numerous workshops and presentations, and regularly published articles on the assessment of student learning. Grady is a former twice elected representative on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He has a M.A. in Communication and the Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from UNC-Chapel Hill.