Professor Meg Moritz
Armory 203C
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Marguerite.Moritz@Colorado.edu
303-492-1610 phone
303-492-0969 fax

Professor Meg Moritz, UNESCO Chair, does research on media portrayals of gays.  Her article, "Say I Do: Gay Weddings in Mainstream Media" will appear in Media/Queered: Visibility and its Discontents. In "Hate Speech Made Easy: The Virtual Demonisation of Gays," she examines the impact of Internet court ruling in the U.S. on hate speech. It appears in Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence: Killing in the Name of Otherness, published by Routledge Cavendish.  She was writer and story consultant for the documentary film “Scout's Honor” which examines the Boy Scouts of America's anti-gay policies. The film won the audience award for best documentary and the Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001.  A former television news producer, Moritz also examines the impact of crisis reporting on journalists and their subjects. In 2005, she received a National Science Foundation grant to study coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Her article on " Covering the News 'come hell and high water:' Journalists in a Disaster" appears in Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina.   Her hour-long documentary, “Covering Columbine,” looks at the emotional and ethical issues raised in the coverage of the worst school shooting in U.S. history. It has been screened in the United States, Canada, France and South Africa and Turkey.  Her analysis of television news coverage of the September 11th attacks appears in Representing Realities: Essays on American Literature, Art and Culture.  Moritz is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and has presented her research in more than 17 countries. In 2004 she was a visiting professor at the Sorbonne and a guest lecturer at UNESCO. She also holds an appointment in the Graduate School where she  is Faculty Director of International Graduate Education.  She is on the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association advisory board. Professor Moritz received her BSJ and MSJ from the Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and her PhD from NU's School of Speech.