Courtney Johnson | Pew Research Center (original) (raw)

Courtney N. Johnson ( Ph.D., University of Washington) is currently a Research Associate at Pew Research Center.

She has six years’ experience teaching university courses on journalism writing and interviewing, research methods, introductory-level communication and journalism, and the role of the press in American and international politics. Before coming to Pew, she taught as an Instructor of Record at the University of Washington, with duties including designing syllabi, selecting course content, writing and delivering lectures, communicating class expectations, and creating all assignments and tests. She received consistently high teaching evaluations from students and department faculty.

Her research interests center on the evolving normative and empirical roles of journalism in democratic systems around the globe, and the role of the Internet in this evolution. Her dissertation explored changing journalistic professional identity in the context of the Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks disclosures. Using close reading of metajournalistic discourse and content analysis of newspaper coverage in the United States and the United Kingdom, she examined mainstream journalism’s framing of these recent government whistleblowers and the nontraditional journalists who worked with them.

Her other research interests include political economy of the news media, public opinion, and media effects. She has worked on NSF and NIH grant-supported interdisciplinary research projects, which resulted in numerous conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications. She also has experience incorporating undergraduate students into her research, and has trained more than one dozen undergraduate research assistants in content analysis, in-depth interviewing, and data entry.

Her work has appeared in publications such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and the International Journal of Communication. She has experience writing for many different purposes and audiences. In particular, her journalism and research background has trained her to synthesize large amounts of information into concise summaries and recommendations. She has written research articles, book chapters, and reviews for peer-reviewed journals and scholarly anthologies. In her role as the city editor and news content editor, she researched and wrote hundreds of news articles for The Badger Herald, the largest independent student newspaper in the country. As a press office intern, she drafted press releases and media advisories for former Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle.

For more information about her academic and professional background, please see her website at www.courtneynjohnson.com.
Supervisors: Patricia Moy (chair), Randal Beam, Nancy Rivenburgh, and Matthew Powers
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