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2022

International Communication Association

Public Engagement Award, Journalism Studies Division

2021

Hubbard School, University of Minnesota

Cox Innovation Award

Association for Education on Journalism and Mass Communication Top Dissertation Award

International Communication Association

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National Association of Black Journalists

A New Protest Paradigm: Toward a Critical Approach to Protest News Analyses

Facing the Competition: Gender Differences in Facial Emotion and Prominence in Visual News Coverage of Democratic Presidential Primary Candidates

No Reckoning for the Right: How Political Ideology, Protest Tolerance and News Consumption Affect Support Black Lives Matter Protests

“It’s Just Not the Whole Story”: Black Perspectives of Protest Portrayals

Black Lives Matter Coverage: How Protest News Frames and Attitudinal Change Affect Social Media Engagement

Danielle K. Brown, Ph.D. is the 1855 Community and Urban Journalism Professor and an associate professor at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism. Her interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship utilizes the cross-sections of journalism, political science, and sociology. She specializes in media representations and narrative change; reconciliation and reparative solutions; social movements and activism; and identity and political psychology. Dr. Brown has published dozens of articles in top-tier journals, and her work also appears in popular media outlets like the Washington Post, Nieman Lab, Columbia Journalism Review and The Conversation. Dr. Brown is an associate editor for the International Journal of Press/Politics. Much of her research and work has been supported with the more than $1.5 million in external funding she has secured from foundations and non-profit organizations like the James A and John S Knight Foundation, Global Impact, Robert Wood Johnson, and Color of Change. She has received multiple awards and recognitions for her research and service record as an early-career scholar and her pioneering public engagement work. Dr. Brown is an associate editor for the International Journal of Press/Politics, and serves on the editorial board for Journalism Practice. She previously served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University. Prior to joining the academy, she was a photojournalist, writer, and later a non-profit public relations professional.

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Who is Danny Bakewell, the Black L.A. power broker named in the Nury Martinez audio?

American journalism’s racial reckoning still has lots of reckoning to do

News organizations are increasing diversity efforts, a Medill survey finds

Medill Survey Respondents Say Their News Organizations Are Making Diversity Efforts

Journalists Feeling Pressure from Pandemic

Misinformation & Black Communities

White supremacy and shows about policing

Vax that thing up: Social contagions and social media’s potential to help with vaccine hesitancy

1855 Community & Urban Journalism Professorship, Associate Professor

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