Pam Fine is Knight Chair in News, Leadership and Community at University of Kansas. Fine teaches multimedia reporting, ethics and other journalism classes and works with news organizations and industry groups on projects to improve news coverage and transform journalistic practices. She joined the University of Kansas faculty from The Indianapolis Star and Indystar.com where she was managing editor. Before that, she was managing editor and vice-president of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.

Fine began her newspaper career at small papers in Florida and Georgia before joining the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she served in a variety of roles including assistant managing editor, political editor, metro editor and reporter. She also wrote and anchored a TV headline service for Cox Cable.

Fine is a past president of the American Society of News Editors. She has also been on the board of the Associated Press Managing Editors, an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute and a Pulitzer Prize juror four times. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in media management from the University of Missouri.