Professor Has Penned Book on Former President Jimmy Carter
Amber Roessner, associate professor in UT’s College of Communication and Information’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media, has interviewed Jimmy Carter and written a book about him.
Experts: Trump Not First President to Have Strained Relationship with Press
Donald Trump is not the first president to have a strained relationship with the media.
College of Law to Host Title IX Conference
The College of Law will host the “Title IX: History, Legacy, and Controversy” conference March 2-3.
Feller, Roessner Featured in WBIR Inauguration Coverage
In WBIR’s coverage of President Trump’s Inauguration, Professors Dan Feller and Amber Roessner weighed in regarding their respective areas of expertise.
Inaugural Ida B. & Beyond Conference to be Held This Month
UT’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media will hold its inaugural Ida B. & Beyond Conference on Thursday, March 26. The conference begins at 9:30 a.m. in UT’s Black Cultural Center, 1800 Melrose Avenue. It is open to the university community and the public.
UT Faculty Member Interviews Jimmy Carter for Upcoming Book
Amber Roessner, an assistant professor of journalism and electronic media, interviewed former President Jimmy Carter last week at the Carter Center in Atlanta. The interview was for Roessner’s second book, tentatively titled Jimmy Who: Jimmy Carter and the Practice of Presidential Press and Promotion in the First Post-Watergate Election, due to be published by LSU
Professor’s Book Reveals How Sportswriters Helped Create Baseball ‘Heroes’
Baseball, the great American pastime, has given us plenty of memorable figures. In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Assistant Professor Amber Roessner of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media—a former sportswriter—examines how some sports journalists compromised their journalistic ethics to help make American heroes out of two of baseball’s most enduring personalities, Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty
Graduate Student, Professor Receive Snorgrass Memorial Journalism Award
A graduate student and professor have won a national journalism award for their research examining how print media covered various anniversaries of the 1910 “Fight of the Century.” Doctoral candidate Jodi Rightler-McDaniels and Professor Amber Roessner, both of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media, won the J. William Snorgrass Memorial Award for Most Outstanding