Schieffer School of Journalism professor appointed to national institute

Fort Worth, TX

10/30/2006

TCU Schieffer School of Journalism professor Dr. Suzanne Huffman is one of nine professors nationally selected to the 2006-2007 Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership Institute for Diversity.
  
Dr. Huffman, chair of the Schieffer School’s division of broadcast and news-editorial journalism, will attend administrative training sessions and discussions with other journalism administrators.  She will also have a mentor from another journalism program to work with her during the year.
   
“This is a significant honor for Dr. Huffman,” said Tommy Thomason, director of the Schieffer School.  “Competition for a spot in the Leadership Institute is intense, and it attracts a stellar group of journalism professors from throughout the nation.”
   
Dr. Huffman has reported, anchored, and produced news at commercial television stations in Tampa, Florida, in Santa Maria, California, and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her reports have appeared on NBC’s The Today Show.
   
Dr. Huffman taught broadcast journalism at three universities before joining the TCU faculty in 1999, and her former students are currently reporting, anchoring, and producing news at stations across the South and the Southwest.
   
She is co-author of Reporting from the Front: The Media and the Military, and Women Journalists at Ground Zero: Covering Crisis, both published by Rowman & Littlefield. She is also co-author of Broadcast News Handbook: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, published by McGraw-Hill. And she is a contributing author to Indelible Images: Women of Local Television, published by Iowa State University Press. Her research centers on the practice of broadcast journalism and has been published in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media and presented at both regional and national symposia.


Media contact: Tracy Syler-Jones
817-257-7811
t.syler-jones@tcu.edu