Office Hours Spring 2024

MW, 3-4 p.m.; Tuesday, noon-2

Tim Drachlis has more than three decades of experience shaping newsrooms and planning award-winning coverage. From 2012 to 2016, he served as assistant managing editor at Newsday on Long Island, the eighth largest daily newspaper in the country, where he helped develop and implement a system that allowed news to be published faster online and across multiple platforms. Under his guidance and planning, his staff of dozens of reporters and editors won nearly 100 journalism awards for countless news events, including the Boston Marathon, Hurricane Sandy and a papal visit to North America. He was part of a team at Newsday that won Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news in 1992 and 1997, and was the editor on three other Pulitzer Prize-winning projects and two that were Pulitzer finalists. His work also has been honored by the Society of Silurians, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Long Island Press Club, the New York Press Club, the New York News Publishers Association, The Associated Press and the Society of News Design.
In academia, Drachlis has taught undergraduate and graduate courses for 20 years on reporting, writing, editing and news design, and is a frequent guest speaker on these topics. He currently teaches journalism and advises the student newspaper at Eastern Illinois University. Before that, he held the Tatarian Journalism Chair at Fresno State. In that role, he helped modernize the school’s journalism curriculum, advised the student newspaper/website and put on journalism education programs for students, area residents and local journalists. His students have gone on to successful careers at scores of media outlets including ESPN, The Associated Press, Newsday, NBC, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Bay Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger and the Bergen (N.J.) Record. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master of science degree in journalism from Northwestern University.