Dane S. Claussen is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of, and a contributor to, Standing on the Promises (1999), The Promise Keepers (2000), and Sex, Religion, Media (2002). Claussen is a newspaper management consultant, former editor of the Industrial Marketing Practitioner newsletter, and a former editor and publisher of daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly newspapers.