Brenda Witherspoon

  • Teaching Professor

Contact

bspoon@iastate.edu

515-294-9403

204c Hamilton
613 Wallace Rd.
Ames IA
50011-4010

Bio

Brenda Witherspoon has a background in daily journalism, including both reporting and editing. Her master’s research looked at New Zealand newspapers’ coverage of ethnic relations in that country, and she has an ongoing interest in how journalists depict their own and others’ cultures. She is also learning more about strength-based journalism, which encompasses a variety of emerging schools of thought.

Topics of interest

daily & in-depth reportinghealth-care journalismnews coverage of/across/within culturesstrength-based journalism

Education

MA, sociology with journalism emphasis (with distinction), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1992

BS, news/editorial journalism and sociology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, 1990

BA, mathematics, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, 1990