Assistant Professor Lee Hood


Assistant Professor Lee Hood taught NewsTeam and Radio and Television News. She said she celebrated when NewsTeam students won a regional Emmy award last fall.

Hood finished her dissertation in August, she said. The title was “The Local News Audience and Sense of Place: A Home in the Global Village.”

“It’s a different way to understand the audience relationship to local news. I argue that news is one of the frames through which people experience their locale, their place in the world, and that such a relationship makes it an entity worth preserving and improving,” Hood said.

She said her next be project is getting her daughter, Rebecca, off to a good start in kindergarten in the fall.

Hood is program chair for the Radio-TV Journalism division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Lee.Hood@Colorado.edu