Robert Wyss

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Bob Wyss is as associate professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut.  He joined the Journalism Department in August 2002 and he has taught newswriting, copy editing, feature writing, and environmental journalism.  He has also worked with other faculty at the university to promote improved communications between scientists and journalists and he has taught a graduate seminar in science communications.

             He is the author of two books.  Brimfield Rush, published by Commonwealth Editions in 2006, a narrative nonfiction account of several antiques dealers.  Covering the Environment is a journalism textbook about how journalists report on the environmental beat.  He also was the editor of How I Wrote the Story, an anthology of the best news stories from the Providence Journal, published in 1995.

             Before coming to the university, Wyss was a reporter and editor for 28 years for the Providence Journal.  He covered municipal and state government and business but his primary focus for most of his career at the newspaper was coverage of energy and the environment.

 From 1980 to 2002 he was a part-time instructor of journalism at Rhode Island College, Roger Williams University, Michigan State University and the University of Connecticut.

 Wyss has written for such publications as The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Yankee, E, Smithsonian, and Rhode Island Monthly.