Knudson, Jerry W.

Jerry W. Knudson, professor emeritus of journalism at Temple University, is a former journalist who has specialized in the history of the press in both North American and Latin America. He earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia, where he was one of the first Jefferson Fellows, and received a Freedom Forum Award from the Gannett Foundation for his long-term coverage of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.