Dr. B. William Silcock - 2024 Fulbright Specialist, Emeritus Faculty of Arizona State University and former Assistant Dean for Research and International Programs, Founding Curator of the Hubert H. Fellowship at ASU, and Founding Director of Cronkite Global Initiatives at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. https://cronkite.asu.edu/news-and-events/news/assistant-dean-b-william-silcock-retiring-after-nearly-20-years-cronkite

Dr. B. William Silcock is a scholar and leading global innovator in journalism education. The U.S. State Department named him a Fulbright Specialist, whose status continues in 2024. Previously, he was selected twice as a Fulbright Scholar (Ireland, 1992; Sweden, 1997). "Dr.Bill"l was named the Emeritus faculty at Arizona State University in December 2020 and is the former Assistant Dean for Research and International Programs at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2023, he led U.S. State Department projects in Albania, The Republic of Georgia, and North Macedonia. Dr. Silcock led the doctoral program at the Cronkite School for many years. He remains an active dissertation chair and committee member. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed academic research articles and co-authored two textbooks. "News Now: Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age" (second new edition, 2024) has gained wide adoption as a digital media textbook.

He is the Founding Curator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship program at Arizona State and led that State Department program for over a decade. As the Director of Cronkite Global Initiatives, he led projects and conducted workshops in over 25 nations. With a passion for international broadcast news, "Dr. Bill," as he was known around the halls of the Cronkite School, continues to train journalists globally, most recently in Croatia (2024), North Macedonia (2023), The Republic of Georgia (2023), Bangladesh (2023), Sri Lanka (2023), and Albania (2023). He’s trained virtually in Pakistan (2022), China (2022), and Saudi Arabia (2021) for the U.S. State Department and private companies. In addition, he's conducted over 50 workshops for journalists on leadership, news, social media, and ethics in the last decade. His passion is to build bridges across cultures. He's listed on the State Department's U.S. Speaker's Bureau as an expert in media coverage of American elections.

As co-founder of 2020 of the international consulting company www.EducatioGlobal.com, Silcock lectures widely on leadership, digital journalism, and ethics topics. An author, gifted teacher, and academic leader, Bill's broadcast career included news leadership at six local TV stations and as an award-winning documentary producer. "Backstage At A Presidential Debate: The Press, the Pundits, and the People" won a 2004 juried faculty Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association and the Houston International Film Festival's Gold Award. An avid vinyl record collector with over 10,000 singles and albums in his collection, interviewing Van Morrison is high on his bucket list. In addition, he and his bride, Angela, enjoy tracing family history and collecting emerging new artists working in oils and watercolors.