Expertise Summary

Expert in primetime TV and the journalist’s place in popular culture

Additional Information

• Director, Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC), a project of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center
• Co-author, Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (2015), part of the Heroes and Scoundrels Image of Journalist Multimedia Project
• Author of Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film (2002)
• Author, IJPC Web site and the IJPC Database, the worldwide sources for the image of the journalist in popular culture
• Winner of five Emmys, four Golden Mike Awards, the Columbia University-Alfred I. duPont Award for Broadcast Journalism and 50 other national broadcasting awards
• Contributor to newspapers and magazines nationally
• Documentary filmmaker, whose major films include Black on Black, The Junior High School, The Unhappy Hunting Ground, The Very Personal Death of Elizabeth Schell Holt-Hartford, Rape and Why Me?
• Winner of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Distinguished Alumni Award, 2005