Michael Chute
Professor, Communication Arts
Director, Center for Media, Faith and Culture
Education
B.A., Oklahoma Baptist University
M.A., Southwest Missouri State University
Ph.D, University of Southern Mississippi
Contact Information
Office: JEN 309
Phone: 731-661-6594
Box: 1842
E-mail:mchute@uu.edu
Biography
Michael D. Chute, professor of journalism at Union University, has 40 years of teaching and professional experience in journalism, public relations, corporate communication and intercultural communication. He has been a reporter, newspaper editor and foreign correspondent.
For 10 years, he lived overseas and worked in more than 30 countries in Asia and South America for U.S. wire services, newspapers and magazines, and taught journalism and public relations courses at national universities and led writing workshops and conferences. He is a former editor of the Commission magazine, and his writing has been featured in a number of American and overseas newspapers and magazines.
He earned his Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of Southern Mississippi, the M.A. degree in Speech Communication from Missouri State University, and the B.A. degree in journalism from Oklahoma Baptist University. He attended Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for post-graduate studies, and studied Portuguese at the Escola de Portugues e Orientacao in Caminas, Brazil, and Mandarin Chinese at the Taipei (Taiwan) Language Institute.
He is a member of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, where he teaches Bible studies; serves on the board of directors for the Wrights Mill Homeowners Association; and holds professional membership in the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors organizations, and serves as vice president of the Southeast Journalism Conference.