Degrees: PHD, 1996, Univ Calif San Diego; MA, 1991, Calif St Univ Fresno; BA, 1976, Seton Hall Univ

Bio:

Dennis Mazzocco is a veteran of 12 Olympic telecasts, and has worked on more than 2,000 network, local, and/or noncommercial programs with ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, TNT, and ESPN over the past 28 years. As a network insider, he has earned nine Emmy Awards and 20 career Emmy Nominations, two George Foster Peabody Awards, three Cine Gold Awards for documentary excellence, and a Directors Guild of America Nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. He has served as a Blue Ribbon judge for the national Sports Emmy Awards for the past five years, and currently holds elective office in the Directors Guild of America, the national U.S. creative guild representing professional motion picture and television directors. He recently began his second term as chairperson of the Associate Director/Stage Manager Council in the East and Midwestern regions, where he represents more than 1,200 members with the DGA's national board of directors in Los Angeles and New York.

Dr. Mazzocco teaches courses in video and media aesthetics, in addition to a special topics class on Olympic programming and production. Making use of his unique and wide-ranging media experience and contacts in the classroom, Dr. Mazzocco strives to inform his teaching and scholarship with the most up-to-date knowledge of industry techniques and technology. He has arranged exclusive internships for outstanding students at the Sydney, Salt Lake and Athens Olympics as well as the Academy Awards telecast in Los Angeles.

Dr. Mazzocco is the author of the 1994 critically acclaimed book, Networks of Power: Corporate TV's Threat to Democracy. He earned his Ph.D. in communication from the University of California, San Diego, in 1996, where he completed his dissertation on the first labor organization of U.S. radio technicians during the New Deal. His scholarly work earned the 1996 Edwin Emery Award for exceptional historical research from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and has appeared in scholarly publications such as Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Critical Sociology, Dictionary of American History, and the Encyclopedia of Radio.