Michael C. Keith

Keith served as a visiting professor at [[George Washington University]] and [[Marquette University]] and Director of Telecommunications at [[Dean College]]. He frequently appears in both American and foreign media as an authority on electronic media. Prior to becoming a full-time academic in the late 1970s, he worked as a broadcast professional for more than a decade.

Keith served as a visiting professor at [[George Washington University]] and [[Marquette University]] and Director of Telecommunications at [[Dean College]]. He frequently appears in both American and foreign media as an authority on electronic media. Prior to becoming a full-time academic in the late 1970s, he worked as a broadcast professional for more than a decade.

Keith's substantial published output melds his own experience, a network of contacts in and beyond the radio business, and careful research, to produce solid analysis of what a growing number of people in and out of the industry see as the growing crisis of broadcast radio.

A number of his books have been co-authored with Robert Hilliard, now retired from [[Emerson College]]. The team usually works with Keith conceiving the topic and doing much of the initial legwork research and Hilliard taking on the initial book manuscript draft. They both work on the final version. Their co-authored works, and those of Keith alone, often tackle controversial topics such as the demise of local radio programming (2005); the legal intricacies of indecent or even obscene programming (2003); the use of radio by extreme hate groups (1999), a title on [[President Clinton]]'s summer reading list one year; and the use of radio by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] (1995), the first monograph to appear on that topic.

A number of his books have been co-authored with Robert Hilliard, now retired from [[Emerson College]]. The team usually works with Keith conceiving the topic and doing much of the initial legwork research and Hilliard taking on the initial book manuscript draft. They both work on the final version. Their co-authored works, and those of Keith alone, often tackle controversial topics such as the demise of local radio programming (2005); the legal intricacies of indecent or even obscene programming (2003); the use of radio by extreme hate groups (1999), a title on [[President Clinton]]'s summer reading list one year; and the use of radio by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] (1995), the first monograph to appear on that topic.