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Powerful women and reviving local news


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Dr. Teri Finneman, the Clyde M. Reed Professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, discusses her research on powerful women and reviving local news. She is interviewed by Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.

Professor Finneman is an author or editor of:

  • Teri Finneman; Nick Mathews; Patrick Richard Ferrucci (2024). Reviving rural news : transforming the business model of community journalism in the US and beyond (Routledge).
  • Teri Finneman (2015) Press portrayals of women politicians, 1870s-2000s : from "lunatic" Woodhull to "polarizing" Palin (Lexington Books).
  • Lisa Burns and Teri Finneman, eds. (2025). The Cambridge companion to US first ladies (Cambridge University Press).
  • She is also the founder of the Journalism History and The First Ladies podcasts.

    And she is the publisher of the Eudora Times, a newspaper that died during the 2007-2009 Great Recession and has been resurrected by Professor Finneman and her students.

    Copyright 2025 Teri Finneman and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivative (CC BY-ND) 4.0 international license.

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