Faculty

Stephanie Anderson

Associate Professor of Instruction

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Office: CIS 3096
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bio

Stephanie Anderson (Ed.D., Murray State University) is an associate professor of instruction in the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications. She oversees Z News, a newsbreak produced by students that airs on WEDQ (PBS) in Florida’s # 1 media market.

Dr. Anderson spent 12 years teaching journalism and mass communications at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky before moving to Tampa in 2022. She is a certified college media adviser by the College Media Association. She is heavily involved with the Broadcast Education Association and serves as the vice chair of the Student Media Advisor’s Division. In 2023, Z News (formerly Florida Focus) placed second in the Dr. Marjorie Yambor Signature Station of the Year competition at BEA.

Dr. Anderson worked as a news producer and assignment editor at television stations in New Mexico and Kentucky. She won the New Mexico Broadcaster’s Award for Best Morning Newscast in 2005. She also worked in the advertising, newspaper, magazine, non-profit and casino entertainment industries before transitioning to academia.

She was awarded the Disruptive Journalism Educator Fellowship in 2018 from the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. In 2016, she received the Vincent T. Wasilewski Award from the Broadcast Education Association.

Dr. Anderson’s paper, co-authored by Dr. Brian Bourke, Teaching collegiate journalists how to cover traumatic events using moral development theory was published in the Dec. 12, 2019 Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.

In addition to Z News, Dr. Anderson teaches Mass Communication and Society, Broadcast News, Writing for Radio and TV and Writing for Mass Media. Her research interest is in trauma journalism.

education

  • Ed.D., P20 & Community Leadership, Murray State University
  • Master of Science, Mass Communications, Murray State University
  • Bachelor of Arts, Electronic Journalism, Murray State University

TEACHING AREAS

  • Mass Communication and Society
  • Broadcast News
  • Writing for Radio and TV
  • Writing for Mass Media

RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

  • Trauma Journalism