Rick Sykes is a Professor Emeritus at Central Michigan University. His teaching career spanned 24 years at CMU where he was responsible for overseeing a student-run television news operation which produced a live nightly newscast five nights a week.

Sykes was also inducted into the Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame in the fall of 2020. The news operation secured a 17-year string of “Television Station of the Year” awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University, Sykes spent a total of 23 years in the communication’s field including 17 years in broadcast news.

Rick has also presented research on media topics at conferences in Iceland and Oxford, England. 

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