Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversy in the Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom

In what ways can we create a campus atmosphere where academics engage with controversial material and have civil conversations about differing perspectives? This book reveals how to navigate issues that may impact media professionals and instructors teaching these developing professionals.

The AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) encourages diverse research and conference programming on the status of women in journalism and mass communication education. The purpose of CSW is to advocate for the improvement of the status of women in journalism and mass communication education as well as in the journalism and mass communication workforce. Candi Carter Olson is assistant professor at Utah State University. Her research interests focus on women’s press clubs as agents of change, newswomen’s history, and women’s use of social media to build community and organize activist groups. She is a 2018 AEJMC Rising Scholar Research Award winner, and in the past received an American Association of University Women American Fellowship, a Mountain West Center research grant, and an American Journalism Rising Scholar award. Tracy Everbach is professor of journalism in the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. Her research focuses on women’s work and leadership in journalism, and on representations of race and gender in media. She is the co-author of Mediating Misogyny: Gender Technology and Harassment (2018, Palgrave Macmillan). She is a former newspaper reporter, including 12 years on the city news desk at The Dallas Morning News.