Assistant Professor Elizabeth A. Skewes
Armory 104B
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Elizabeth.Skewes@Colorado.edu
303-735-1096 phone
303-492-0969 fax

Assistant Professor Elizabeth A. Skewes joined the CU faculty in 2001 and teaches courses in print journalism, political communication, media ethics and research methods. Her first book, "Message Control: How News is Made on the Presidential Campaign Trail," published in 2007 by Rowman & Littlefield, examines how campaign journalists do their work and how their interactions with the candidates and campaign strategists influence the stories they write.  She currently is working on several projects examining news coverage of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and on two studies of journalistic norms, values and ethics – one on U.S. journalists, and the other as part of a 16-country research project. She is the author or co-author of several journal articles on campaign reporting and on media ethics, and also has written a few articles about the intersection of popular culture and politics. Before returning to graduate school, she worked on alumni publications at St. John's College in New Mexico and was the alumni magazine editor at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. She also was a newspaper reporter at the Tampa Tribune in Florida and the Herald-Dispatch in West Virginia. In addition to a PhD in mass communications from Syracuse University, she has a master's degree in journalism from Ohio State University and a bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA.