As an assistant professor at The University of Alabama, I am living an educators' dream teaching future broadcasters, digital media producers, media marketing specialists, and social media revolutionists in such an exciting and complicated media landscape. Teaching  advanced electronic news and production, producing, digital news, and graduate classes in our Masters in Community Journalism Program can be quite a challenge when you have the best and brightest from all over the country in your classroom. My job is like the news industry, a 24-7 open communication newsroom of developing future reporters, producers, writers, and anchors while advancing the academy through my creative scholarship. 

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My love for broadcast news started in a small television station as a volunteer at the age of 16 years old, and then my passion for journalism developed into a career as a senior producer at the ABC affiliate in Birmingham, a freelance producer for the National Association of Broadcasters, and a broadcast media marketing specialist for the University of Alabama.  I worked full-time while earning my masters and doctorate degrees, and my professors taught me the hard work would pay off. My daughter Carleigh is a senior at The University of Alabama and Chris Clark has put up with my crazy sleepless nights and love of news for more than 25 years of marriage.