Timothy Morgan

Timothy Morgan, teaching professor of journalism and communication at Gordon’s Adams School, is a seasoned reporter, writer, editor, and educator. At Gordon, he teaches journalism, podcasting, digital magazine journalism, Media & Society, Perspectives: COM Theory, Persuasive Speaking, Presenting Strategic Ideas, and The Great Conversation. He also serves as faculty adviser for The Tartan, Gordon’s Journalism Minor, and the COM/Arts Major. He is a member of the College Media Association’s Faith Track working group.

During his tenure of over 20 years in editorial management at Christianity Today, the magazine received dozens of national journalism awards. He has reported from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, and throughout the US. Through his efforts at CT, the magazine moved to the forefront of faith-based coverage of global issues, including evangelism/church growth, chronic poverty, HIV/AIDS, sustainable development, terrorism, Islam-Christian relations, religious freedom, sexual abuse in the church, and foreign policy.

His work has also been published in AP, UPI, AG News, Religion News Service, The Roys Report, The Christian Century, Sojourners, Books & Culture, and other outlets. 

He served for ten years at Wheaton College (Illinois) as the founding director of the Journalism Certificate program. He has taught, lectured, or led national event workshops and local churches for over 25 years. He serves as a director and contributing editor with Journey Through NYC Religion and as a trainer and board member for the Magazine Training Institute. In 2024, he helped launch Ex Fonte (from the source), a new print-edition journal/magazine published Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, and serves a contributing editor there.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he and three other writers, in response to the significant workplace changes underway, wrote and published an e-book, The Joy of Working from Home: Embracing the Freedom, Avoiding the Pitfalls (2020), on deadline. This five-star-rated e-book was written and published in under six months.

Early in his career, Morgan worked for about 10 years in the daily press. In 1988, he was named editor-in-chief of The Fitchburg-Leominster Sentinel & Enterprise, becoming one of the youngest EICs in this daily newspaper’s 187-year history. During this time, he authored a chapter in The New Imagemakers: Soviet Propaganda and Disinformation Today (1988). The editor of this book, a former spy, was his professor at Boston University, a global expert in disinformation.

His research and scholarly interests include religious freedom and persecution, pandemics and public health, disinformation, church growth, journalism ethics, and the church’s response to new technology. He and his family are active at Beacon Covenant Church, Attleboro, MA, where his wife serves as director of music ministries.