Faculty Members
Ted Spiker
Associate Professor - Department of Journalism
M.S.,
Columbia University
B.A.,
University of Delaware
Office: 3054 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-6990
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Biography
Spiker, who heads the department’s magazine sequence, teaches Magazine Management, Magazine & Feature Writing, Advanced Magazine & Feature Writing, Finding Your Voice, Journalism as Literature, Health & Fitness Writing, and Applied Magazines—the course that produces the campus magazine, Orange & Blue. He came to the University of Florida in 2001.
Spiker, a contributing editor to Men’s Health magazine, is also a freelance writer who specializes in health and fitness writing. His work has also been published in Outside; O, The Oprah Magazine; Fortune; Women's Health; Best Life; Prevention; Runner’s World; Sports Illustrated Women; AARP The Magazine; In Style; St. Petersburg Times; Cooking Light; Every Day with Rachael Ray; The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine; Cosmopolitan; Writer’s Digest; Adventure Sports and more.
Spiker is also co-author of about a dozen books, including the national bestsellers, YOU: Staying Young, YOU: On a Diet, YOU: The Owner's Manual, and YOU: Being Beautiful with Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Mike Roizen, as well as The Abs Diet.
Before coming to UF, he was the articles editor of Men's Health, a 1.8-million circulation magazine published by Rodale, Inc. He also served as a senior editor and associate editor. Prior to joining Men's Health, Spiker was editor and assistant editor of Delaware Today magazine. He has taught as an adjunct instructor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and at the University of Delaware. He earned the master of science degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the bachelor of arts, with a double major in communication and English-journalism, from the University of Delaware. He has won several teaching awards, and his paper on how magazine covers portrayed the events of September 11 was published in the Journal of Magazine and New Media Research.
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