Danielle K. Brown
1855 Community & Urban Journalism Professorship, Associate Professor
Danielle K. Brown's interdisciplinary scholarship utilizes the cross-sections of journalism, political science, and sociology.
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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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University of Texas: Ph.D., Journalism | 2017
Baylor University: M.A., Journalism, Public Relations and New Media | 2013
Baylor University: B.A., Journalism & Public Relations | 2008
Selected Press
Who is Danny Bakewell, the Black L.A. power broker named in the Nury Martinez audio?
Los Angeles Times | 2022-10-18
Not everyone agreed. Danielle Brown — a professor of journalism, diversity and equality at the University of Minnesota — said it would be unusual for the publisher of a Black newspaper to be meeting with politicians and directly informing policy.
American journalism’s racial reckoning still has lots of reckoning to do
NiemanLab | 2022-03-08
The most recent push to create these positions stemmed from how the public reacted to Floyd’s murder, said Danielle K. Brown, the John & Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
News organizations are increasing diversity efforts, a Medill survey finds
Poynter | 2022-02-01
The second-ever Medill Media Industry Survey was conducted at the end of 2021 by associate professor Stephanie Edgerly of Medill, and Danielle K. Brown, the Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality at the University of Minnesota. More than 1,500 members of the U.S. news media completed the questionnaire.
Medill Survey Respondents Say Their News Organizations Are Making Diversity Efforts
Local News Lab | 2022-02-01
The second-ever Medill Media Industry Survey was conducted at the end of 2021 by Associate Professor Stephanie Edgerly of Medill, and Danielle K. Brown, the Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality at the University of Minnesota. More than 1,500 members of the U.S. news media completed the questionnaire.
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