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Barbie Zelizer

Professor of Communication.
Annenberg School for Communication.
University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Zelizer’s work focuses on the news media in times of crisis and war. She is the author of Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media and the Shaping of Collective Memory.

She is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, and the Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication.

A former journalist, Professor Zelizer is co-editor and founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Sage), and also has served on the editorial boards of numerous book series and journals, including Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Popular Communication, and Critical and Cultural Studies in Communication.

Media Contact

Julie Sloane | 215-746-1798 | jsloane@asc.upenn.edu