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About Bob Rucker

38 Year Professional Journalist. Former CNN Correspondent & NBC News Major Market Affiliate Bureau Chief. News Anchor, Producer, Medical Reporter, Writer and Videotape Editor. Diversity in Media Curriculum Coordinator, Multimedia Unit Administrator/Strategic Planner. New Media Program Planner, Local & National News Media Consultant, Media Career Adviser and JMC School Student Outreach and Recruiter, Major Donor Fundraiser. 
From a kid growing up in a poor community on the South Side Chicago to working for two major media companies and directing a nationally recognized journalism program, I have lived by the following: "Dream BIG and ACT as if it were impossible to fail."

Positions

2020 - Present Associate Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University Emeritus Faculty
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2011 - 2020 Director, San Jose State University School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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1993 - 2020 Associate Professor, Broadcast Journalism, San Jose State University
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1993 - 2020 Coordinator, Diversity in Media Curriculum, San Jose State University
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Curriculum Vitae



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Contact Information

E-mail: robert.rucker@sjsu.edu

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