Wayne Wanta博士是美国佛罗里达大学新闻学院教授及主任，曾任美国新闻与大众传播教育协会会长，并两次代表该协会出席世界新闻教育代表大会。他曾在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、南伊利诺伊大学、密苏里大学、俄克拉荷马大学以及佛罗里达大学任教，并在40多个国家发表演讲或宣读论文（包括最近作为富布赖特学者在冰岛发言），完成的文章和论文超过150篇，大多数属于体育、政治和视觉传播，已出版书籍5部。他之前曾在新闻教育评估委员会工作，现担任9家期刊的编委会成员。

 

Wayne Wanta is a professor and chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Florida. He is a past president of Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, and twice represented AEJMC as a delegate to the World Journalism Education Congress. He has lectured and presented papers in more than 40 different countries, including recently as a Fulbright Scholar in Iceland. He has written more than 150 research articles and papers, many in the area of sports, political and visual communication. He also has five books with a sixth in press. He currently serves on the editorial boards of nine journals and previously served on the journalism education accrediting council.