Biography
Müge Mengü Hale joined the Department of Communication and Design in 2014. She received her BA in philosophy from The Bosphorus University, and MA in media studies from The New School University, NY with an emphasis on video production and media management.
Müge Mengü Hale is an art and culture reporter, writer and editor with extensive experience in corporate and independent media. She worked as an editor for P Art, Culture, Antiques magazine, and researched and wrote on Late Ottoman and Turkish Republican art. She worked as a reporter and feature writer for Doğan Media Group’s Finansal Forum and corresponded from New York for Referans Newspaper with her column “What’s New with New York”. Her other credits include translations for the UN, literary translations, and design study and research at The Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, NY.
She edits Bilkent Post, an online multimedia magazine compiled from COMD student work at bilkentpost.bilkent.edu.tr
She is the author of the children’s book Ay Işığını Arayan Denizkaplumbağaları, Çıtırcık and Pıtırcık, published by Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
Research Interests: Magazine Journalism for the Web, Social Media Journalism
Courses Taught
- COMD 331 // News Reporting and Writing
- COMD 357 // Multimedia Journalism
- COMD 358 // Professional Communication
- FA 171 // Art, Design and Culture I
- FA 171 // Art, Design and Culture II
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