Background
Kenneth Stowe Devol was born on April 3, 1929, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Los Angeles Valley College
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California State University’s Northridge campus
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Los Angeles Valley College
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California State University’s Northridge campus
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Mass media and the Supreme Court: The legacy of the Warren years (Studies in public communication)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803846843/?tag=2022091-20
1976
Justice Hugo Black and the First Amendment: "'No Law' Means No Law"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813819059/?tag=2022091-20
1978
Kenneth Stowe Devol
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Devol devoted his career to journalism, both as a teacher and a writer of textbooks. He worked as a high school journalism teacher in the public school system of Van Nuys, California, in the mid-1950s before joining the faculty at Los Angeles Valley College as a journalism instructor in 1955. In 1961 he became an assistant professor at California State University’s Northridge campus and attained the rank of a journalism professor and department head by 1969. His career at Northridge spanned for thirty years and also saw him as an associate acting dean of the university’s School of Communication. He reached professor emeritus status in 1991.
During his career, he also taught at San Jose State University and the University of Southern California.
Achievements
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Devol was the author of textbooks, including Writing Style for Journalists (with Esther R. Davis) and Mass Media and the Supreme Court: The Legacy of the Warren Years. In addition, he contributed to books such as Readings in Mass Communication and Justice Hugo Black and the First Amendment, and to periodicals such as Journalism Quarterly. Devol also edited and wrote for Valley Times, and he served on the editorial board of College Press Review.
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1953 - 1955
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1955 - 1961
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1961 - 1969
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1969 - 1991
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1991 - 1997