Linda Steiner

Professor and Director of Research and Doctoral Studies

Linda Steiner studies how and when gender matters in news and newsrooms and how feminist groups use media. Other research areas include media ethics; journalism history; and public journalism. Steiner is editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication and serves on six editorial boards. Before coming to Maryland she taught at Rutgers University, where she served as Department Chair and coordinator of the Ph.D. program's Media Studies track. She has written, co-authored, or edited several books, book chapters, and refereed articles. Steiner has chaired several task forces for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, for which she is now drafting a code of ethics.

Curricular Vitae

Expertise

  Women and the media; alternative media, public/civic journalism.