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Dr. B. William Silcock - 2025 Fulbright Specialist, Emeritus Faculty of Arizona State University and former Assistant Dean for Research and International Programs, Founding Curator of the Hubert H. Fellowship at ASU, and Founding Director of Cronkite Global Initiatives at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. https://cronkite.asu.edu/news-and-events/news/assistant-dean-b-william-silcock-retiring-after-nearly-20-years-cronkite
Global scholar and gifted teacher Dr. B. William Silcock leads international innovation in journalism education. The U.S. State Department named him a Fulbright Specialist, whose status continues in 2025. Previously, twice, he was selected as a Fulbright Scholar (Ireland, 1992; Sweden, 1997). Bill was named to the Emeritus faculty at Arizona State University in December 2020. He served in various leadership roles at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication for twenty years, including as the Assistant Dean for Research and International Programs. An active scholar, Dr. Silcock co-published new research in 2024 and continues to serve on dissertation committees. He’s Chaired PhD Dissertations championing young global scholars from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, and the USA. He’s published over 30 peer-reviewed research articles and co-authored two textbooks. "News Now: Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age" (second edition, 2025) has gained wide adoption as a digital journalism textbook. He’s moderated election debates and election night coverage as a professional journalist.

Co-founder of the global consulting company www.EducatioGlobal.com, with clients in the U.S.A, Middle East, South Asia, and Southern Europe, Silcock consults widely on digital journalism, media ethics, and servant leadership. As an author and academic leader at three American universities, Bill's broadcast career included leadership, TV news producing, award-winning on-air and reporting work at six local TV stations and five radio stations, and producing/directing award-winning international documentaries. "Backstage At A Presidential Debate: The Press, the Pundits, and the People" won a 2004 juried faculty Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association and the Houston International Film Festival's Gold Award. (See the documentary here: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/169117606 )

Remaining highly active globally, in 2024, he led a U.S. State Department project in Croatia, resulting in a TV news magazine focused on Ukrainian war refugees and the ASU/Cronkite Study Abroad Program to Cuba. Recently, he led successful projects in Albania, The Republic of Georgia, and North Macedonia focused on journalism curriculum reforms. Silcock, the founding Curator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program at Arizona State, designed and launched the ten-month State Department leadership development program for over a decade, training over 100 media professionals from 65 nations.

With a mission to build bridges of understanding across cultures via journalism and social media platforms, Silcock is the Founding Director of Cronkite Global Initiatives. Traveling widely, he’s conducted workshops most recently (2024) in Saudi Arabia and the Balkans. With a passion for international broadcast news, "Dr. Bill," as he’s known around the halls of the Cronkite School and worldwide, trains journalists globally on leadership, digital journalism, social media, and media ethics for various State Department and private programs in more than 25 countries including Croatia (2024), Albania (2024), North Macedonia (2024), Greece (2024), Sri Lanka (2023), the Republic of Georgia (2023), He's trained virtually in Pakistan (2022), China (2022), Saudi Arabia (2021) and traveling widely in person in such diverse countries as Pakistan (2018), Serbia (2014), Jordan (2011), and Kyrgyzstan (2010),. His mission is to build bridges across cultures via journalism and social media platforms.

An avid vinyl record collector with over 10,000 singles and albums in his collection, interviewing Van Morrison is high on his bucket list. Bill and his bride, Angela, live in Gold Canyon, Arizona, where they enjoy tracing family history and community service using www.justserve.org.
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Recent TV Interview - Dr. Bill Silcock, Kathryn McManus, and Vice Dean Dr. Dragan Goreski appeared on nationwide TV in North Macedonia on May 18th's MTV Morning Show to promote the new Media Innovation Center (link) being launched at the journalism school. This is a U.S. Embassy Skopje Project I am co-leading for the Cronkite School focused on curriculum innovation, building a new lab, and eventually seeking journalism accreditation from ACEJMC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=LpEyFmnwBgk
 
Podcast - Digital Journalism in the AI Era - Podcast interview in 2023 “Table Talk” about the future of journalism in the era of AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ81GnBeeyo
Honored to be interviewed about the future of journalism and journalism education in the era of AI by Albanian journalist Denis Tahiri for the exciting new podcast series "Table Talk," produced at the Albania Center for Quality Journalism, funded in part by the U.S Embassy Tirana
Documentary Reporting Example (Producer, On-Air Reporter) 
A PBS award-winning documentary about American Presidential Debate - Award-winning TV documentary about the Presidential debate titled “Backstage at a Presidential Debate: The Press, The Pundits, and the People:” can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/169117606