Successful Women in Online Journalism Interview Series
 Seated (Row 1): Alexandria Havlick, Margaret Peters, Nawaar Farooq, Nicole Lumbreras, Genevieve Krier, and Kara Barten. Middle Row (Row 2): Alissa Wanless, Catherine Dix, Ashley Keifer, Ashton Shurson, Melissa Darden, Brigette Fanning, Tara Dunlay, Kristin Lutz, and Nicole Petrancosta. Standing (Row 3): Alexandra Schroeder, Brianna Runyan, Lauren McGrath, Dalicia Xayasouk, Alicia Sieverding, Kelly Murphy, Joelle Coons, and Kaylena Jensen. Students missing in pic: Kendra Cook, Dana Davidsen, Devin Grask, and Katelynn Henderson. (Picture by Richard Johns, adjunct faculty member.) In Fall 2009, students from the University of Iowa's Gender and Mass Media class interviewed successful women in online journalism. The interviews are listed below as well as featured in an online book (currently in production). The goal of the project was to familiarize the students with the challenges women in online communications face, as well as what made them successful. Written by class professor and former director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Pamela Creedon, and Virginia Commonwealth University professor and former reporter, June Nicholson. |
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Current Universities
University of Iowa
Pamela Creedon
The Gender and Mass Media class is taught by Pamela Creedon. Prof. Creedon is the former director of School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Iowa, and former director at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University. Active in feminist scholarship, Creedon served as an editor of The Edge of Change: Women in the 21st Century Press published by the University of Illinois Press (2009). Previously, she served as editor of Women in Mass Communication: Challenging Gender Values by Sage (2007, 1994, 1989). She is also an editor of Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication: A 30-Year Update published by (2004) and is the editor of Women, Media and Sport published by Sage (1994).
Professor Creedon earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and her bachelor's degree in English from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio.