Teri Finneman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teri Finneman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teri |
| FAMILY NAME | Finneman |
| SIGNATURE | FINNEMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1356-5815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies
First ladies have always received a great deal of attention and are among the most recognizable figures of any presidential administration. They're often treated as celebrities, making them some of the most prominent women of their eras. Yet many of their stories and contributions have been overlooked. Through a collection of thematic essays, The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies provides a thorough and compelling examination of the developm…
Examining Gaps in Journalism Curriculum to Solve the News Desert Crisis
This exploratory study uses semi-structured, in-depth qualitative interviews ( n = 32) with journalism educators at universities in Europe, Australia, North America, and the South Pacific to examine the current state of local news pedagogy. While these journalism educators understand the significance of the news desert crisis, their efforts to engage their students around the issue often fall short. Using an ecological framework of system theory,…
My Place Isn't in the Kitchen: Examining Feminist Facebook Framing of an Algerian Social Movement
This study examines the dynamics of a social media campaign launched by Algerian feminists in 2018 in response to a video shared on Facebook that narrated a woman's upsetting encounter with harassment. This movement occurred in a region often known for its autocratic systems of governance and the prevalence of its Islamic movements rather than for its prominence of feminist advocacy. Yet the Global South and particularly North Africa are actually…
The influence of Indigenous standpoint: Examining Indian Country press portrayals of Native women in politics
This study examines how three Native women politicians were portrayed in Native newspapers. The analysis found striking differences in how national Native media cover women politicians compared with prior findings in mainstream newspapers. The data illustrate the influence of Indigenous standpoint theory on the journalistic norms of Native media and its distinct lack of gendered politics, revealing significant prioritization of policy over person…
Revenue & Readership: Rescuing & Reviving Rural Journalism
Utilizing the theory of disruptive innovation, this study relies on dual surveys: one of publishers of rural newspapers in America, and the other of readers of rural newspapers in America. This work ascertains key differences and similarities between how the two groups consider various funding models for U.S. journalism. The survey probes how the two groups perceive the ability to fund journalistic organizations utilizing a variety of potential r…
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists
Although diminishing newsrooms—and gaping holes in community news coverage—have been acknowledged in the US for over a decade, the term “news desert” did not widely emerge in discourse among industry professionals to refer to places that lacked news outlets until the fall of 2018. While much work in various disciplines, including journalism studies, aims to uncover the causes behind news deserts and the effects of their proliferation, scant resea…
Reimagining Journalistic Roles: How Student Journalists Are Taking On the U.S. News Desert Crisis
Our Company is in Survival Mode: Metajournalistic Discourse on Covid-19’s Impact on U.S. Community Newspapers
This study explores how U.S. reporters, columnists, editors, and state newspaper associations explained to their audiences the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on journalism. Our examination of news articles and columns found an emphasis on explaining the industry's financial struggles in the 2000s, the strain of the pandemic on journalistic routines, the historical legacies of newspapers, and journalism's role in democracy. We also found that sta…
The Paper Is White: Examining Diversity Issues With the Next Generation of Journalists
Although the lack of diversity in newsrooms and reporting remains a serious issue in the journalism industry, college journalism education and student media provide a critical opportunity for change. Yet prior research has found notable diversity gaps in both. This study analyzed the state of diversity at a Midwestern university student newspaper and found significant gaps in coverage of diverse populations. The findings suggest the need for more…
You Had to be Reporting Constantly: Covid-19’s impact on U.S. weekly newspapers’ journalistic routines
This study examines COVID-19’s impact on the journalistic routines of U.S. community newspapers during the pandemic’s early months. Oral history interviews with 22 journalists and state newspaper association directors indicate weekly journalists discarded entrenched journalistic routines to better serve their communities during a crisis. However, structural issues with business models, internet access and legal definitions of newspapers hinder we…
I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive: U.S. Community Newspapers’ Resilience During Covid-19
As journalists dealt with a nonstop news cycle in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their newspapers faced a financial crisis as advertising revenue sharply declined during economic shutdowns. Unable to rely on their centuries-old, advertising-centric business model, U.S. community newspapers had to turn to other means to survive. This study features oral histories with 24 journalists and state newspaper association directors in …
Leading the second wave into the third wave: U.S. women journalists and discursive continuity of feminism
The #MeToo movement resurfaced tensions between second- and third-wave feminists, who are often framed in media narratives using a paradigm approach that defines them as separate, competing social movements. Using a historical analysis, this study builds upon evidence supporting a continuity approach to social movement scholarship that instead emphasizes ideological connections and spillover effects. An examination of the archives of Journalism a…
I Always Watched Eyewitness News Just to See Your Beautiful Smile: Ethical Implications of U.S. Women TV Anchors’ Personal Branding on Social Media
Women television journalists have long faced criticism and harassment regarding their appearance. The normalization of social media engagement in newsrooms, where journalists are expected to interact with their audience, creates new challenges for women journalists by providing forums for public judgment that was once a private matter. Research suggests that receiving harassing or abusive comments from audience members online can cause harm to th…
Reconstructing collective professional identity: A case study of a women’s journalist association in the post–second-wave feminist movement in the United States
This study explores the relationship between social movements and professions by focusing on the development of women journalist associations in the post-feminist era in the United States. The analysis focuses on the case of the US-based organization Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) using 41 oral history interviews with JAWS members and archival research. The results illustrate how the members of JAWS defined, contested, and negotiated the c…
Sexism on the Set: Gendered Expectations of TV Broadcasters in a Social Media World
This research examines gender performance expectations of television journalists in the era of social media. A qualitative survey found little to no progress in reducing discourse critical of broadcasters’ appearance in the 20 years since Engstrom and Ferri’s (2000) study, with social media adding another avenue to “correct” rather than challenge gender norms. Nearly all journalist respondents believe viewer criticism has increased with the rise …
Gender trouble in the workplace: Applying Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to news organizations
Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, introduced in her 1990 book Gender Trouble, has significantly shaped individual and collective understandings of gender. This essay examines performativity as a framework for critically assessing gender performances in patriarchal workplace environments, including the institutional rules and norms that shape behaviors and interactions. Specifically, we suggest that performativity offers a valuable lens fo…
The early historical construction of journalism’s gatekeeping role
This study analyzes journalistic discourse about journalism’s gatekeeping role in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The intent is to understand how the notions of newsworthiness, news selection, and news judgment came to be expressed in normative terms in the journalistic field. The study finds discursive strategies that explained news judgment in terms of a special skill that journalists possessed, that downplayed judgment while shifting f…
Image Repair Campaign Strategies Addressing Race: Paula Deen, Social Media, and Defiance
This multi-method study examines how the use of social media in a crisis campaign involving race-related issues may affect a public figure’s credibility and perceived response appropriateness. First, image repair theory is used to analyze Paula Deen’s image repair campaign in the wake of the National Enquirer’s revelation that she admitted to using the “N-word” during a lawsuit deposition. Our analysis shows her response strategies were unsuccess…
First Ladies in Permanent Conjuncture: Grace Coolidge and “Great” American Womanhood in the New York Times
This study of the New York Times coverage of Grace Coolidge draws on Antonio Gramsci's concept of “conjuncture” to argue that the role of first lady is one of permanent conjuncture, characterized by a struggle between tradition and modernity. Although once voted one of America's “greatest women,” Coolidge's depiction as more conventional than current may explain why she is now a forgettable 1920s’ figure. Overall, we argue that the representation…
Who watches the watchdogs: British newspaper metadiscourse on the Leveson Inquiry
The British press is notable for its longstanding resistance to accountability. However, the Leveson Inquiry, formed in response to the 2011 phone-hacking scandal, has opened up a dialogue on the culture, practices, and ethics of the British press and, by extension, the roles and responsibilities it is expected to bear. Taking the position that analyzing journalistic “metadiscourse”—journalism about journalism—is critical to understanding how the…
Who watches the watchdogs: British newspaper metadiscourse on the Leveson Inquiry
The British press is notable for its longstanding resistance to accountability. However, the Leveson Inquiry, formed in response to the 2011 phone-hacking scandal, has opened up a dialogue on the culture, practices, and ethics of the British press and, by extension, the roles and responsibilities it is expected to bear. Taking the position that analyzing journalistic “metadiscourse”—journalism about journalism—is critical to understanding how the…
Sexism on the Set: Gendered Expectations of TV Broadcasters in a Social Media World
This research examines gender performance expectations of television journalists in the era of social media. A qualitative survey found little to no progress in reducing discourse critical of broadcasters’ appearance in the 20 years since Engstrom and Ferri’s (2000) study, with social media adding another avenue to “correct” rather than challenge gender norms. Nearly all journalist respondents believe viewer criticism has increased with the rise …
Our Company is in Survival Mode: Metajournalistic Discourse on Covid-19’s Impact on U.S. Community Newspapers
This study explores how U.S. reporters, columnists, editors, and state newspaper associations explained to their audiences the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on journalism. Our examination of news articles and columns found an emphasis on explaining the industry's financial struggles in the 2000s, the strain of the pandemic on journalistic routines, the historical legacies of newspapers, and journalism's role in democracy. We also found that sta…
I Always Watched Eyewitness News Just to See Your Beautiful Smile: Ethical Implications of U.S. Women TV Anchors’ Personal Branding on Social Media
Women television journalists have long faced criticism and harassment regarding their appearance. The normalization of social media engagement in newsrooms, where journalists are expected to interact with their audience, creates new challenges for women journalists by providing forums for public judgment that was once a private matter. Research suggests that receiving harassing or abusive comments from audience members online can cause harm to th…
The early historical construction of journalism’s gatekeeping role
This study analyzes journalistic discourse about journalism’s gatekeeping role in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The intent is to understand how the notions of newsworthiness, news selection, and news judgment came to be expressed in normative terms in the journalistic field. The study finds discursive strategies that explained news judgment in terms of a special skill that journalists possessed, that downplayed judgment while shifting f…
Gender trouble in the workplace: Applying Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to news organizations
Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, introduced in her 1990 book Gender Trouble, has significantly shaped individual and collective understandings of gender. This essay examines performativity as a framework for critically assessing gender performances in patriarchal workplace environments, including the institutional rules and norms that shape behaviors and interactions. Specifically, we suggest that performativity offers a valuable lens fo…
I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive: U.S. Community Newspapers’ Resilience During Covid-19
As journalists dealt with a nonstop news cycle in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their newspapers faced a financial crisis as advertising revenue sharply declined during economic shutdowns. Unable to rely on their centuries-old, advertising-centric business model, U.S. community newspapers had to turn to other means to survive. This study features oral histories with 24 journalists and state newspaper association directors in …
You Had to be Reporting Constantly: Covid-19’s impact on U.S. weekly newspapers’ journalistic routines
This study examines COVID-19’s impact on the journalistic routines of U.S. community newspapers during the pandemic’s early months. Oral history interviews with 22 journalists and state newspaper association directors indicate weekly journalists discarded entrenched journalistic routines to better serve their communities during a crisis. However, structural issues with business models, internet access and legal definitions of newspapers hinder we…
Reimagining Journalistic Roles: How Student Journalists Are Taking On the U.S. News Desert Crisis
Image Repair Campaign Strategies Addressing Race: Paula Deen, Social Media, and Defiance
This multi-method study examines how the use of social media in a crisis campaign involving race-related issues may affect a public figure’s credibility and perceived response appropriateness. First, image repair theory is used to analyze Paula Deen’s image repair campaign in the wake of the National Enquirer’s revelation that she admitted to using the “N-word” during a lawsuit deposition. Our analysis shows her response strategies were unsuccess…
Revenue & Readership: Rescuing & Reviving Rural Journalism
Utilizing the theory of disruptive innovation, this study relies on dual surveys: one of publishers of rural newspapers in America, and the other of readers of rural newspapers in America. This work ascertains key differences and similarities between how the two groups consider various funding models for U.S. journalism. The survey probes how the two groups perceive the ability to fund journalistic organizations utilizing a variety of potential r…
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists
Although diminishing newsrooms—and gaping holes in community news coverage—have been acknowledged in the US for over a decade, the term “news desert” did not widely emerge in discourse among industry professionals to refer to places that lacked news outlets until the fall of 2018. While much work in various disciplines, including journalism studies, aims to uncover the causes behind news deserts and the effects of their proliferation, scant resea…
Leading the second wave into the third wave: U.S. women journalists and discursive continuity of feminism
The #MeToo movement resurfaced tensions between second- and third-wave feminists, who are often framed in media narratives using a paradigm approach that defines them as separate, competing social movements. Using a historical analysis, this study builds upon evidence supporting a continuity approach to social movement scholarship that instead emphasizes ideological connections and spillover effects. An examination of the archives of Journalism a…
First Ladies in Permanent Conjuncture: Grace Coolidge and “Great” American Womanhood in the New York Times
This study of the New York Times coverage of Grace Coolidge draws on Antonio Gramsci's concept of “conjuncture” to argue that the role of first lady is one of permanent conjuncture, characterized by a struggle between tradition and modernity. Although once voted one of America's “greatest women,” Coolidge's depiction as more conventional than current may explain why she is now a forgettable 1920s’ figure. Overall, we argue that the representation…
Reconstructing collective professional identity: A case study of a women’s journalist association in the post–second-wave feminist movement in the United States
This study explores the relationship between social movements and professions by focusing on the development of women journalist associations in the post-feminist era in the United States. The analysis focuses on the case of the US-based organization Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) using 41 oral history interviews with JAWS members and archival research. The results illustrate how the members of JAWS defined, contested, and negotiated the c…
Who watches the watchdogs: British newspaper metadiscourse on the Leveson Inquiry
The British press is notable for its longstanding resistance to accountability. However, the Leveson Inquiry, formed in response to the 2011 phone-hacking scandal, has opened up a dialogue on the culture, practices, and ethics of the British press and, by extension, the roles and responsibilities it is expected to bear. Taking the position that analyzing journalistic “metadiscourse”—journalism about journalism—is critical to understanding how the…
First Ladies in Permanent Conjuncture: Grace Coolidge and “Great” American Womanhood in the New York Times
This study of the New York Times coverage of Grace Coolidge draws on Antonio Gramsci's concept of “conjuncture” to argue that the role of first lady is one of permanent conjuncture, characterized by a struggle between tradition and modernity. Although once voted one of America's “greatest women,” Coolidge's depiction as more conventional than current may explain why she is now a forgettable 1920s’ figure. Overall, we argue that the representation…
Image Repair Campaign Strategies Addressing Race: Paula Deen, Social Media, and Defiance
This multi-method study examines how the use of social media in a crisis campaign involving race-related issues may affect a public figure’s credibility and perceived response appropriateness. First, image repair theory is used to analyze Paula Deen’s image repair campaign in the wake of the National Enquirer’s revelation that she admitted to using the “N-word” during a lawsuit deposition. Our analysis shows her response strategies were unsuccess…
The early historical construction of journalism’s gatekeeping role
This study analyzes journalistic discourse about journalism’s gatekeeping role in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The intent is to understand how the notions of newsworthiness, news selection, and news judgment came to be expressed in normative terms in the journalistic field. The study finds discursive strategies that explained news judgment in terms of a special skill that journalists possessed, that downplayed judgment while shifting f…
Gender trouble in the workplace: Applying Judith Butler’s theory of performativity to news organizations
Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, introduced in her 1990 book Gender Trouble, has significantly shaped individual and collective understandings of gender. This essay examines performativity as a framework for critically assessing gender performances in patriarchal workplace environments, including the institutional rules and norms that shape behaviors and interactions. Specifically, we suggest that performativity offers a valuable lens fo…
Reconstructing collective professional identity: A case study of a women’s journalist association in the post–second-wave feminist movement in the United States
This study explores the relationship between social movements and professions by focusing on the development of women journalist associations in the post-feminist era in the United States. The analysis focuses on the case of the US-based organization Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) using 41 oral history interviews with JAWS members and archival research. The results illustrate how the members of JAWS defined, contested, and negotiated the c…
Sexism on the Set: Gendered Expectations of TV Broadcasters in a Social Media World
This research examines gender performance expectations of television journalists in the era of social media. A qualitative survey found little to no progress in reducing discourse critical of broadcasters’ appearance in the 20 years since Engstrom and Ferri’s (2000) study, with social media adding another avenue to “correct” rather than challenge gender norms. Nearly all journalist respondents believe viewer criticism has increased with the rise …
Leading the second wave into the third wave: U.S. women journalists and discursive continuity of feminism
The #MeToo movement resurfaced tensions between second- and third-wave feminists, who are often framed in media narratives using a paradigm approach that defines them as separate, competing social movements. Using a historical analysis, this study builds upon evidence supporting a continuity approach to social movement scholarship that instead emphasizes ideological connections and spillover effects. An examination of the archives of Journalism a…
I Always Watched Eyewitness News Just to See Your Beautiful Smile: Ethical Implications of U.S. Women TV Anchors’ Personal Branding on Social Media
Women television journalists have long faced criticism and harassment regarding their appearance. The normalization of social media engagement in newsrooms, where journalists are expected to interact with their audience, creates new challenges for women journalists by providing forums for public judgment that was once a private matter. Research suggests that receiving harassing or abusive comments from audience members online can cause harm to th…
Our Company is in Survival Mode: Metajournalistic Discourse on Covid-19’s Impact on U.S. Community Newspapers
This study explores how U.S. reporters, columnists, editors, and state newspaper associations explained to their audiences the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on journalism. Our examination of news articles and columns found an emphasis on explaining the industry's financial struggles in the 2000s, the strain of the pandemic on journalistic routines, the historical legacies of newspapers, and journalism's role in democracy. We also found that sta…
The Paper Is White: Examining Diversity Issues With the Next Generation of Journalists
Although the lack of diversity in newsrooms and reporting remains a serious issue in the journalism industry, college journalism education and student media provide a critical opportunity for change. Yet prior research has found notable diversity gaps in both. This study analyzed the state of diversity at a Midwestern university student newspaper and found significant gaps in coverage of diverse populations. The findings suggest the need for more…
You Had to be Reporting Constantly: Covid-19’s impact on U.S. weekly newspapers’ journalistic routines
This study examines COVID-19’s impact on the journalistic routines of U.S. community newspapers during the pandemic’s early months. Oral history interviews with 22 journalists and state newspaper association directors indicate weekly journalists discarded entrenched journalistic routines to better serve their communities during a crisis. However, structural issues with business models, internet access and legal definitions of newspapers hinder we…
I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive: U.S. Community Newspapers’ Resilience During Covid-19
As journalists dealt with a nonstop news cycle in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their newspapers faced a financial crisis as advertising revenue sharply declined during economic shutdowns. Unable to rely on their centuries-old, advertising-centric business model, U.S. community newspapers had to turn to other means to survive. This study features oral histories with 24 journalists and state newspaper association directors in …
Reimagining Journalistic Roles: How Student Journalists Are Taking On the U.S. News Desert Crisis
The influence of Indigenous standpoint: Examining Indian Country press portrayals of Native women in politics
This study examines how three Native women politicians were portrayed in Native newspapers. The analysis found striking differences in how national Native media cover women politicians compared with prior findings in mainstream newspapers. The data illustrate the influence of Indigenous standpoint theory on the journalistic norms of Native media and its distinct lack of gendered politics, revealing significant prioritization of policy over person…
Revenue & Readership: Rescuing & Reviving Rural Journalism
Utilizing the theory of disruptive innovation, this study relies on dual surveys: one of publishers of rural newspapers in America, and the other of readers of rural newspapers in America. This work ascertains key differences and similarities between how the two groups consider various funding models for U.S. journalism. The survey probes how the two groups perceive the ability to fund journalistic organizations utilizing a variety of potential r…
A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists
Although diminishing newsrooms—and gaping holes in community news coverage—have been acknowledged in the US for over a decade, the term “news desert” did not widely emerge in discourse among industry professionals to refer to places that lacked news outlets until the fall of 2018. While much work in various disciplines, including journalism studies, aims to uncover the causes behind news deserts and the effects of their proliferation, scant resea…
Examining Gaps in Journalism Curriculum to Solve the News Desert Crisis
This exploratory study uses semi-structured, in-depth qualitative interviews ( n = 32) with journalism educators at universities in Europe, Australia, North America, and the South Pacific to examine the current state of local news pedagogy. While these journalism educators understand the significance of the news desert crisis, their efforts to engage their students around the issue often fall short. Using an ecological framework of system theory,…
My Place Isn't in the Kitchen: Examining Feminist Facebook Framing of an Algerian Social Movement
This study examines the dynamics of a social media campaign launched by Algerian feminists in 2018 in response to a video shared on Facebook that narrated a woman's upsetting encounter with harassment. This movement occurred in a region often known for its autocratic systems of governance and the prevalence of its Islamic movements rather than for its prominence of feminist advocacy. Yet the Global South and particularly North Africa are actually…
The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies
First ladies have always received a great deal of attention and are among the most recognizable figures of any presidential administration. They're often treated as celebrities, making them some of the most prominent women of their eras. Yet many of their stories and contributions have been overlooked. Through a collection of thematic essays, The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies provides a thorough and compelling examination of the developm…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Media studies (15 works) · Media Studies and Communication (15 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Journalism (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works)