Amy Reynolds
Currently teaching:
Recent News
- 11 finish Teaching Fellows Workshop
- Reynolds co-authors new book on terrorism, press
- IU names Reynolds leadership fellow
Biography
Professor Reynolds teaches law and broadcast journalism. Prior to joining the IU School of Journalism in 2000, she was an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma and at Miami University of Ohio. She has previous journalism experience as a television reporter, producer and news director. Her print journalism experience is as a newspaper reporter and as managing editor of an alternative wire service. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Texas (1998).
Past academic positions
Assistant professor, H.H. Herbert School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, 1999-2000; Assistant professor, Mass Communication Department, Miami University of Ohio, 1998-99; Assistant Instructor and teaching assistant, Department of Journalism, University of Texas; 1995-98; Adjunct instructor, School of Journalism, Indiana University, 1994-95.
Professional positions
News director, WTIU (PBS-affiliate), Bloomington, Indiana, 1993-95; Managing editor, Generation X Press, Orlando, Florida, 1992-93; Reporter, College Press Service, Orlando, Florida, 1991-92; Editorial intern, Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Florida, 1991; City editor, Indiana Daily Student, Bloomington, Indiana, 1990; Reporter and producer, WSEE-TV (CBS-affiliate), Erie, Pennsylvania, 1989; Reporter, Erie Daily Times, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1988.
Professional organizations
Member: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, International Communication Association, National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation, American Association of University Professors.
Publications
Articles in Communication Law and Policy, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of International Communication. Chapters in several books, including Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research (2nd. Ed.) and Media Representations of September 11th. Co-edited the forthcoming (2005) Communications & Law: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research with Brooke Barnett, as well as The Poll with a Human Face: The National Issues Convention Experiment in Political Communication (1999) with Maxwell McCombs. A primary document historical reader, Northern Press Coverage of the Civil War, was published in 2005.
Awards
Newslab Grant, 2001; Indiana University School of Journalism Research Grant, 2000, 2001, 2003; Miami University of Ohio Summer Research Fellowship and Small Grants to Promote Research, 1999; Shell Grant to Promote Research, University of Texas, 1998; Nettie Doscher More Fellowship, University of Texas, 1997-98; Bruton Fellowship, University of Texas, 1997-98; Phi Kappa Phi honor society, 1996-1998; Ada Frances Miller Scholarship, University of Texas, 1996-97; RTNDF Abe Schechter Graduate Scholarship, 1995-96; Indiana PBS "Best Newscast" Award, 1994; Erie Daily Times editorial award for best general feature, July, 1988, and best sports story, June, 1988.
Teaching and research areas
First Amendment history, mass communication Law, political dissent, media and democracy, broadcast journalism.
Research summary
Professor Reynolds' research focuses on dissent and the First Amendment, including how the abolitionists conceptualized their free speech/free press rights in the early nineteenth century. She has had articles published in Communication Law and Policy, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and the Journal of International Communication and has contributed chapters to several books. Prof. Reynolds is currently editing a book that focuses on multidisciplinary approaches to the study of communication law and is conducting several social science and legal studies that focus on both contemporary and historical conceptualizations of dissent in America.
Recent publications & projects include:
- Amy Reynolds (2004). "The Impact of Walker's Appeal on Northern and Southern Conceptions of Free Speech," Communication Law & Policy, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 73-100.
- Amy Reynolds & Brooke Barnett (2003). "America Under Attack: CNN's Verbal and Visual Framing of September 11th," in Steven Chermak, Frank Bailey and Michelle Brown (Eds.) Media Representations of September 11th. New York: Praeger.
- Amy Reynolds & Brooke Barnett (2003). "Free Speech in the Wake of September 11," in Naren Chitty, Ramona R. Rush and Mehdi Semati (Eds.) Studies in Terrorism: Media Scholarship and the Enigma of Terror. Penang: Southbound. (This book is a special edition of the Journal of International Communication.)
- Amy Reynolds (Forthcoming, 2005). Northern Press Coverage of the Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
- Amy Reynolds & Brooke Barnett (Eds.) (Forthcoming, 2005). Communication and Law: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
Joined faculty in fall 2000.