About William Celis

William Celis is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication. He teaches a variety of reporting and writing classes, including education reporting. In Fall 2008, he and two other colleagues launched the Annenberg School’s South Los Angeles reporting project, an urban affairs initiative that will produce a community-based news website. He is a former national education correspondent for The New York Times and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Battle Rock: The Struggle Over A One-Room School In America’s Vanishing West and of the forthcoming Remembering Richard: Immigrants and their Quest for the American Dream. He began his reporting career in his native Texas, working for community and regional dailies before moving to New York to earn his master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He enjoys reading, country-western music and playing and watching tennis.

• Location: CA
• Was accepted for Feb 17-20 2009 Technology Training.

Writing

Content on this site written by William Celis (includes contributory writing):