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Associate Professor
News-Editorial

B.A. journalism, Louisiana State University, 1984; M.A. journalism, Memphis State University, 1993; Ph.D. mass communication law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

Awards: 2007 Marian Opala First Amendment Award; 2005 SPJ First Amendment Award; 2005 Golden Torch Award, OSU College of Arts & Sciences; 1999-2000 Outstanding Professor, OSU College of Arts & Sciences.

Courses taught: mass communications law, public affairs reporting, censorship, law and ethics for public relations and advertising.

Professional experience: Reporter for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., and the Tulsa (Okla.) World.

Research interests: Oklahoma's Mass Communication Law; State FOI Laws; First Amendment Rights of College and High School Students. Published in Newspaper Research Journal, College Media Review, Journalism Educator and the IRE Journal.

Invited Presentations: AEJMC; Edward R. Murrow Program for International Journalists; IRE National Conference; NAHJ Region 6; SPJ Region 8 Conference; IRE Better Watchdog Workshops; First Amendment Congress of Oklahoma; Oklahoma Institute for Diversity in Journalism

Author of Mass Communication Law in Oklahoma, which is used in newsrooms across the state and has been adopted for media law courses at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Central Oklahoma and East Central University.

Dr. Senat is quoted frequently by the media on freedom of information and media law issues. His model letter for public records requests is widely used in the state by reporters and attorneys and is featured as a state FOI resource by the National Freedom of Information Coalition and by the Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project.

President, FOI Oklahoma Inc., 2007.

Former book review editor and member of the editorial board for Newspaper Research Journal.