William Schulte, Ph.D. is an associate professor of mass communication at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He has over 11 years of community newspaper experience where his duties included layout and design, infographics, special projects, and copy editing. Schulte’s teaching duties include classes in basic and advanced reporting, multimedia and ethnics. His research includes several peer-reviewed works in social constructionist theory, media history, news worker dynamics and ritual, and pop culture. He is the author of “Social Construction and News Work: Newsworkers, Civic Function, and Resistance in the Changing Media World” (2014), this is an ethnography chronicling three newsrooms struggling in the digital paradigm. He received his doctorate from Ohio University in 2012, and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Ball State University in 2004 and 1994 respectively.