R.J. McElroy Chair and Executive-in-Residence in Communication Arts/Assistant Professor of Communication Arts

Dr. Stein holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Iowa and is licensed to practice law in the Iowa state and federal courts. A member of the Wartburg faculty since 1998, he also has taught journalism, mass media, and law courses at Iowa State University and the Buena Vista University-Marshalltown Center.

His professional background includes work in radio (WSUI, Iowa City and KFJB, Marshalltown), television and newspapers. He currently serves as the on-air political analyst for KWWL-TV, Waterloo, and comments on the media and culture weekly on KASI, Ames. Dr. Stein is the author of the #1-best selling One Week in June: The Iowa Floods of 2008, as well as the award-winning Making Waves: The People and Places of Iowa Broadcasting and Covering Iowa Law and Courts: A Guide for Journalists.

He received the 2009 Jack Shelley Award, the highest honor presented to broadcast journalists in Iowa. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Iowa and serves as executive secretary of the Iowa Broadcast News Association. A past president of the Northwest Broadcast News Association, Stein is also director of the nationally acclaimed Wartburg Summer Broadcasting Workshop for high school students and teachers, supported by the Iowa Broadcasters Association.