Brill, Dr. Ann M.

Dr. Ann M. Brill is the dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, a school that is consistently cited as one of the top 10 schools of journalism in the nation.

Ann was born and raised in Marathon, Wisconsin, a town of 1,500 people.  Her first full-time job in journalism was at a community weekly newspaper The Mosinee Times, with a circulation of 2,400.

Ann came to KU from the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she taught in the area of new media.  At MU, she co-founded one of the world’s first online newspapers.  While her time at MU was productive, she assures us all that she has become a Jayhawk through and through.

She also has taught at the University of Minnesota and Marquette University in Milwaukee. She earned a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota, a master's degree from Marquette, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Her professional experience includes newspapers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, and Missouri. Her areas of expertise include online journalism, online advertising, and effects of implementation of new technology.

She is the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) National Administrator of the Year, funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation Fund.  She has served on the boards of the Journal of Interactive Advertising, the Newspaper Research Journal, and the steering committee of the national Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  She founded and directed the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Online Editing Program and has served on AEJMC’s Professional Freedom and Responsibility Committee. She is a past president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and has chaired accreditation visits for the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.