Armstrong, Cleary join faculty
(February 26, 2004) Cory Armstrong will join the Department of Journalism and Johanna Cleary will join the Department of Telecommunication, Dean Terry Hynes announced today. Both will be tenure-accruing assistant professors, beginning in August.
Armstrong is completing the Ph. D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned a master's in mass communication, also from Madison, and a bachelor's in English from Miami University of Ohio. 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 currently focuses on the sociological influences on news content. She already has had two sole-authored articles published or in press in Newspaper Research Journal and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. In addition, she has served as a teaching assistant for three different courses while a graduate student at Madison.
Cleary is completing the Ph. D. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She earned a master's in communication and a bachelor's in journalism, both from the University of Alabama. She has approximately 16 years of professional experience with Alabama Public Television, as a producer/reporter, promotion director, and news director. Her research agenda concentrates on management issues, international communication, and broadcast history. She is a Park Doctoral Fellow at North Carolina, and she taught the introductory broadcast writing course there. She has an article in press at Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.
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