Dr. Dane S. Claussen joined the National Communication Association (NCA) as Director of Research, Publications and Professional Advancement in February 2023. Since March 2020, he also has been Editor-in-Chief & Executive Director (CEO) and founder of Nonprofit Sector News, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to reporting on nonprofit organizations. Dane previously was a journalism/media or strategic communications professor at (in reverse chronological order) Semester at Sea/Institute for Shipboard Education, University of Idaho, Thiel College, Shanghai International Studies University, Point Park University and Missouri State University. He most often taught social science research methods, media law, media ethics, media management/economics, media history, and journalistic reporting/writing, but he also taught social media management, presentational literacy, media and society, media literacy, integrated marketing communications, public opinion, mass communication theory, writing the nonfiction book, and other courses. At Thiel College, where Dane was the James Pedas Chair (full professor) in Media, Communication, and Public Relations and department chair, he designed and launched the Business & Financial Journalism major and the Religion Communication major, and redesigned existing majors that are now Media Communication; Public Relations, Advertising, and Integrated Marketing Communications; and Communication Studies. At Point Park, where Dane also was full professor, he was the institution’s Faculty Development Coordinator and Graduate Council chair and directed a large M.A. program for nine years. Dane is the former editor of Newspaper Research Journal (2017-21) and Journalism & Mass Communication Educator (2006-12), author or editor of four scholarly books, and author of more than 100 academic articles, book chapters, essays, book reviews and editorials, as well as dozens of national/international conference papers. He has served on 10 other editorial boards, currently four. In the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), Dane headed four divisions (Mass Communication & Society; History; Media Management, Economics & Entrepreneurship; and Magazine Media) and an interest group (LGBGTQ, which he co-founded) and served on the Publications Committee, Teaching Committee, and Diversity Task Force. He was one of two official nominees for AEJMC Vice-President in both 2017 and 2021. At Shanghai International Studies University (2013-15), he designed an English-language M.A. program and then in 2018 designed an English-language Ph.D. program and another M.A. program for the School of Journalism and Communication. Dane holds a B.S. in journalism (Oregon), an M.S. (Kansas State) and a Ph.D. (Georgia) in mass communication, and an MBA (Chicago Booth). Before entering higher education full-time, he was editor and/or publisher of daily, weekly, biweekly and monthly newspapers and magazines in Wisconsin, Washington state and Oregon; managed a newspaper management consultants network; and was a broker/appraiser for print media companies for sale. Dane also has been Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada and a marketer for a study abroad company. He has visited (or lived in) all 50 US states (48 of them more than once) and, since 2006, visited almost 50 other countries for work and/or tourism. Dane is a former Fulbright Specialist and has done extensive academic consulting in Bangladesh and Spain. A postal historian, he has the world's largest collection of mail sent by US newspaper companies during the 1850-1925 period. Dane also has one of the USA's largest collections (if not the largest) of pocket watch fobs (plus some chains, chatelaines, medals, badges, etc., and a few pocket watches) from the 1840-1940 period.