Sue Robinson, PhD

Sue Robinson is the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to teaching journalism and doing community work, she is the author of three books:

1) How Journalists Engage: A theory of trust building, identities and care (2023, Oxford University Press);

2) News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture (2021, Oxford University Press), co-author with Matt Carlson and Seth C. Lewis;

3) Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities (2018. Cambridge University Press), which won the AEJMC Tankard Book Award.