Laura J. Hendrickson
Professorial Lecturer

Phone: (202) 994-6227
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: JHjournalism@aol.com
Office: MPA 425

Expertise

Courses Taught

JOUR 111, Reporting and Writing News

Selected Works

Background

Laura J. Hendrickson is currently working toward a juris doctorate degree at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she serves as an editor for the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. Hendrickson is also a legal intern for National Public Radio.

An educator since 1994, Hendrickson has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in communication theory, writing and editing for St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota, and for the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas. While at Incarnate Word, she served as graduate adviser and graduate coordinator for the communication arts department and as faculty adviser to the student visual and performing arts newsletter Arts in Motion.

Hendrickson has published articles on media framing, imagery in writing, and media reliance for the Journalism Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, and the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal. She has also presented at conferences hosted by such organizations as the International Communication Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication

Her research interests have focused on media framing, media coverage of social problems and environmental issues, and media law.

Education

Ph.D., Communication / Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, 1994
M.A., Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, 1987
B.A., Journalism, New Mexico State University, 1985