Faculty Members
Kim B. Walsh-Childers , Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Journalism
Ph.D.,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: 3044 Weimer
Phone: (352) 392-3924
E-mail:
Research area
Journalism ethics, news coverage of health, media effects on adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior, use of the Internet for health information and health communication.
Biography
Walsh-Childers has taught at UF since August 1990. Her teaching areas include journalism ethics, newswriting, a graduate seminar in mass media and health and magazine feature writing. Her research focuses on print media news coverage of health issues, mass media effects on individual health and health policy, and the relationship between mass media content and adolescent sexual beliefs and behavior. Her work has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Communication Research, Pediatrics, AIDS Education and Prevention, and the Journal of Adolescent Health Care. Walsh-Childers earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed her master's degree in journalism and doctorate in mass communication research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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