Dr. Tim Bajkiewicz

Office: Temple 1149-D
Phone: (804) 828-4203
Email: tbajkiewicz@vcu.edu

Dr. Tim Bajkiewicz (“Dr. B.” to a lot of his students) is an associate professor of broadcast journalism and the journalism sequence coordinator in the School of Mass Communications. He joined VCU in fall 2008.

He teaches courses in both the undergraduate and graduate program. Dr. Bajkiewicz is the faculty instructor (through MASC 465 Newscasting) and news director for VCU InSight, the school’s 30-minute student-produced TV news program that airs monthly on WCVW-TV Richmond PBS. He shares co-executive director responsibilities for the show with faculty member Gary Gillam.

His research on new media and news convergence has been published in the journal Electronic News and in two book chapters. He has also authored text book chapters about online writing and postmodern content analysis media research. He currently serves as webmaster for the Electronic News division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

He began working in radio in 1987. His professional experience includes more than 10 years in broadcasting and media at ten different radio stations, with positions as a morning and afternoon radio on-air personality, news anchor, and management positions in promotions and production. He has also worked extensively in live audio production, both for broadcast and live concert production, along with audio film post-production and freelance video production.

Dr. Bajkiewicz graduated from the Specs Howard School of Media Arts in 1987. He then earned his B.A. in Anthropology in 1993 (with honors) and M.A. in Mass Communications (with distinction) in 1995 from the University of Florida. He was a Roy H. Park Fellow in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2002. He was co-recipient of the “Outstanding Ph.D. Student” award in 2001.

From 2001-2008 Dr. Bajkiewicz served on faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he taught an exciting undergraduate multimedia journalism class in cooperation with The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, NBC-affiliated WFLA-TV News Channel 8, and their online news operation, TBO.com, all owned by Media General. He was honored with a 2004-2005 USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher award and took second place in the “Promising Professors” national teaching competition in the Mass Communication & Society division of AEJMC. He was also honored with a Director’s Award by Tampa Bay-based RCS for producing a short fund-raising video for that social service organization’s successful efforts to raise $2 million to purchase property for their food bank. In 2004 he was named “Outstanding Communications Media/Technology Teacher” by the Tampa Educational Cable Consortium, which runs The Education and Learning Channels.

He is originally from Monroe, Michigan, which is about 40 miles south of Detroit.