Lee Hood, PhD

Associate Professor

Lee Hood has been on the faculty since Fall 2009. In 2018 she was recognized with the national Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education. Before coming to Loyola, she taught at the University of Colorado, following an 18-year career in television news. Her newscasts won regional Emmy Awards for hard news and spot news coverage and a Colorado Broadcasters Association Best Newscast award. She also has experience reporting for radio and newspapers.

She is a member of the Chicago-Midwest regional board of directors for the National Television Academy (the group that awards the Emmys) and serves in leadership roles at the University and in the School of Communication.

Education

PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder

MA in Journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder

BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri

Courses Taught

Broadcast News, TV Reporting, Ethics and Communication, and Newscasting and Producing.

Publications/Research Listings

Journal Articles

Hood, Lee (2011).  “News Outsourcing: The Producers’ Perspective.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media 18:2, pp. 295-308.

Hood, Lee (2010). “Radio Recentered: Local News Returns Home.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media 17:2, pp. 151-166.

Hood, Lee (2007). “Radio Reverb: The Impact of ‘Local’ News Reimported to Its Own Community.” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 51:1, pp. 1-19.

Books

Hoover, Stewart M., Lynn Schofield Clark, and Diane F. Alters, with Joseph G. Champ and Lee Hood (2004). Media, Home, and Family. New York: Routledge. Nominated for Best Book Award, International Communication Association, 2005. 

Chapters:

Hood, Lee. “Fitting in with the Media: The Price-Benoits and the Franzes.”

In Media, Home, and Family (pp. 131-144). 

Hood, Lee, Lynn Schofield Clark, Joseph G. Champ, and Diane F. Alters. “The Case Studies: An Introduction.” In Media, Home, and Family (pp. 69-77).