Cory L. Armstrong, Ph.D.

Associate Professor - Department of Journalism
Graduate Coordinator - Department of Journalism
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
B.A., Miami University, 1991

Office: 3045 Weimer
Phone: (352) 352-392-0847
Email:

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Web sites for fact finding and investigative reporting

Research area

Effects of news coverage, media/source credibility, micro and macro influences on news content, gender representations in media coverage, and media coverage of obesity.

Biography

Armstrong joined the journalism faculty in Fall 2004. She has approximately eight years of professional journalism experience on newspapers in Ohio, as a copy editor, reporter, and bureau chief. She has interdisciplinary interests in research and her dissertation focused on the influence of community pluralism on local news content. She received the Mary Gardner Award for Graduate Student Research in 2003 from the Commission on the Status of Women in the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication for her dissertation proposal. She has also won a top research paper award from the AEJMC Newspaper Division. Armstrong has had articles published in Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Mass Communication & Society, and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Her teaching areas included the core journalism courses of applied fact-finding and newswriting/reporting. At the graduate level, she teaches Issues in the Press and Race, Class, Gender and Media. Her research interests are: influences on news content, media credibility, gender and media and effects of news coverage. She is a faculty affiliate with the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research.

Summer A 2013 Office Hours

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