MSUM retiree Shelton Gunaratne passes away

Shelton Gunaratne, 79, of Moorhead, MN passed away Friday, March 8, 2019. Memorial services will be held on Friday, March 15 at MSUM Comstock Memorial Union Room 205 at 6 p.m. Shelton taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead for 22 years as a professor of mass communication, retiring in 2007. Read the full obituary at www.wrightfuneral.com

Gunaratne’s essays are published

Shelton A. Gunaratne, professor of mass communications emeritus, has an essay titled “Emerging global divides in media and communication theory: European universalism versus non-Western reactions” scheduled for publication in the next (special) issue (Vol. 19 No. 3) of the Asian Journal of Communication.

Faculty News

Shelton A. Gunaratne, mass communications emeritus, has published an essay titled “Buddhist goals of journalism and the news paradigm” in the June 2009 issue of Javnost–the Public (Vol. 16 No. 2, 61-76.)