Dr. Jack Lule is Professor Emeritus in Journalism and Communication and Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of Global Studies and the Globalization and Social Change Initiative at Lehigh University. He retired in January 2025, after 34 years at Lehigh.

He remains an active scholar. His research interests include globalization and media, international communication, international news reporting, cultural and critical studies of news, online journalism, and teaching with technology.

Dr Lule is the author of three books:

• Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism, published in 2001 by Guilford Press. Called “a landmark book in the sociology of news,” the book argues that ancient myths can be found daily in the pages of the news. The book won the 2002 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship;
• Globalization and Media: Global Village of Babel, 4th edition, 2021 (first published in 2012 by Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd ed., 2015; 3rd, 2018). The book argues for the central role of media in the historical process of globalization. It has become a leading book for students and scholars of international communication.
• Understanding Media and Culture in the 2020s, Version 4.0 (first published in 2012 by Flatworld Press). This introduction to mass communication was written as a low-cost alternative to high-priced mass communication texts.

The author of more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters, Dr. Lule is also a frequent contributor to numerous newspapers and periodicals and has served as a commentator about the news on National Public Radio, BBC and other media outlets. A member of the editorial board of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly and Critical Studies in Media Communication, Dr. Lule is also a three-time winner of the James E. Murphy Award for research given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

He is the winner of four Lehigh teaching awards. They include the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching; the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching; the Faculty Scholar Award from the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, and the Deming Lewis Faculty Award, which was given by the class of 1994 during their 10-year reunion celebration to the faculty member who most significantly influenced their educational experience.

A former writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dr. Lule received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1987. He had been teaching at Lehigh since 1990. He and his wife, Gregorie, live in Bethlehem. They have three sons.

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