Indiana University School of Journalism

Rosemary Pennington joined the School of Journalism as a master's student in the Fall of 2007 and is now enrolled in the PhD program. Her research interests include international communication, new media, HIV/AIDS as well as the intersection of media and identity. Rosemary began her career in journalism as the poetry editor of her junior high newspaper.

After getting her BSJ in Broadcast News from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism she worked in public broadcasting newsrooms in Athens, Ohio and Birmingham, Alabama. Over the course of her career Rosemary has won numerous awards and has covered everything from congressional elections to evolution in Alabama to homebrewing beer.

Her favorite story she ever covered was about the late Babec -- a silverback gorilla at the Birmingham Zoo who was the first gorilla to ever receive a pacemaker. That story won her the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for Radio in 2005. It also taught her that, when facing a 350-pound gorilla, it is best to appear as small and unthreatening as possible.

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