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Richard A. Joyce, is a native of Scranton, Pa., and a graduate of the University of Scranton, where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology. After a four-year tour in the US Air Force, during which he served first in Saigon, Vietnam, as a Defense Language Institute instructor, and then in Colorado Springs at Ent AFB (now the US Olympic Training Center) as a photographer and photo lab technician, Joyce earned a bachelor's degree in mass communications at USC and a master's degree in journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He joined the faculty at Adams State College in 1983 and taught the print journalism program there for nearly five years before becoming managing editor of the Cañon City Daily Record. During his seven years with the Record, Joyce won nine editorial writing awards, including three national awards in Inland Press Association competition. After six years at the Record, Joyce was named editor and general manager of the publication. He joined the mass communications department faculty at USC in 1994, oversees the department's news/editorial sequence, and advises the CSU-Pueblo Today, the award-winning student-operated newspaper that serves as a hands-on learning laboratory for news and advertising sequence students.
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