Joseph A. Angotti, M.A.
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Communication, 2005-

Contact information:

Rm. 306, Wallace Hall
309-457-2398
jangotti@monm.edu

Office Hours:

Office Hours:  T-Th 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Education:

M.A. Indiana University, 1966 (Journalism).
B.S. Indiana University, 1962 (Speech Education).

Courses Taught:

COMM 260 - Introduction to Journalism
COMM 261 - Mass Media and Modern Society

Teaching Interests:

Broadcast Journalism, Media and Society

About Joe Angotti:

During a career spaning 22 years in broadcast network news Joe Angotti served NBC as executive in charge of special programming of major breaking news stories such as the Camp David Peace Accord, the Watergate hearings, launches of the early space satellites, over a dozen presidential summits and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Angotti is the former senior vice president of NBC, heading the NBC News division and is the former executive producer of NBC Nightly News. He was NBC's vice president and executive producer of election programs anchored by Tom Brokaw during the 1980s. In that capacity, he was in charge of all NBC programming of the primary elections, political conventions, presidential debates, election night coverage and inaugurations.

He formed his own production company in 1992 and produced the 25th Anniversary Gala of the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote, filmed and edited a series of programs in Eastern Europe titled "From Marx to Markets" which were filmed, edited and broadcast in Albania, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia.

Angotti left broadcast news and served as Professor and Communication Studies chair at the University of Miami School of Communication. He was named Professor and Chair of the Broadcast Journalism program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern in 1999 before retiring from Northwestern and joining the faculty of Communication Studies at Monmouth College in 2005. While at Northwestern, he was the founder and faculty adviser of the Northwestern News Network, which produced weekly newscasts for Evanston and Chicago television stations.

Karen Angotti, Joe's wife, operates Rainbow Riders, a therapeutic horseback riding program for children with special needs, at their Monmouth home.