Bob Gould

Broadcast Journalism Professor of Practice

Department

Journalism

gouldro@msu.edu
(517) 353-6405

Bio

Bob Gould is an award-winning broadcast journalist with 34 years in the industry, starting in local TV news and currently teaching visual storytelling and broadcasting at the MSU School of Journalism for the past 17 years.

He began his career in 1990 as a TV news photojournalist at WILX-TV in Lansing, later moving to WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids. In 1995, he became the Chief Photojournalist, overseeing nearly a dozen photojournalists and editors while producing daily TV news stories.

Bob's accolades include over 40 awards from the NPPA (National Press Photographers Association), the MAB (Michigan Association of Broadcasters), and Michigan Associated Press, such as “Best Individual Photojournalism” in 1998 and 2006. He has received 8 regional Emmy nominations and 4 Emmy awards, including a recent one for a documentary produced in Puerto Rico about Hurricane Maria. The documentary also received a “Best of Competition Award” from the BEA’s annual Festival of Media Arts Competition.

In 2022, Bob received the Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education from the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2017, he earned the NPPA's “Robin F. Garland Outstanding Educator” award. He is also a member of the Emmy Silver Circle, recognizing his 25 years in the broadcast industry. This year, he was inducted into the MAB Hall of Fame.

His students have won hundreds of state, regional, and national awards, including a 6th consecutive Station-of-the-Year award from the MAB.

Bob served a 4-year term as President of the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has been active with the Michigan Association of Broadcasters as a Foundation Board member and honorary member for many years. He is currently the Video Chair for the NPPA’s prestigious Best of Photojournalism National Contest and served as NPPA President in 2006.

Bob celebrates 31 years of marriage to Susan, with two children, Ilene, 25, and Isaac, 21, both now working in television news in Michigan.