Debra Mason is director of the Center on Religion & the Professions at University of Missouri-Columbia. A specialist in religion journalism, she is on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism. Mason is also executive director of the Religion Newswriters Association, a professional association for journalists who write about religion in mainstream media.
Mason holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from Ohio University in Athens, an M.S.J. in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago and an M.T.S. in theological studies from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. She lives in Columbia with her husband, two daughters and son.
