James Tracy was a tenured Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) for fourteen years. FAU stripped Tracy of his tenure and terminated him in 2016 for failing to file paperwork disclosing his personal blogging. He has since filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against FAU that was tried 2017 and is presently before the US Court of Appeals. Tracy has published numerous research articles and book chapters on journalism media history.