Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia
M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A., Webster University

Barbara Friedman joined the faculty in 2004.  Her research focuses on mass media history, media representation of gender and race, and political communications. She teaches courses on history, news writing and specialized reporting.

She is the author of From the Battle Front to the Bridal Suite: U.S. and British Mass Media Coverage of British War Brides 1942-1946 (University of Missouri Press, 2007) and Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004). Her research has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Feminist Media Studies, American Journalism and the Encyclopedia of American Journalism History.

A journalist for 15 years, Friedman wrote for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun, among other publications. She was an editor for Global Journalist, a publication of the International Press Institute, and trained reporters in the uses of computer-assisted research. She represents the School on the board of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, a nonprofit organization that investigates and advances credible claims of innocence by inmates convicted of felonies in North Carolina.

Before joining the faculty, Friedman taught at Washington University and Webster University, both in St. Louis. At Webster University, she won university honors for teaching and was a finalist for the Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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