Associate 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

Associate 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” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), examines how campaign journalists do their work and how their interactions with the candidates and campaign strategists influence the stories they write.  She is working on several projects examining news coverage of the 2008 U.S. presidential election, including a new book on the role of women in presidential politics that focuses on how the media covered Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. She also conducts research on journalistic norms, values and ethics and the intersection of politics and popular culture. She is the author or co-author of several journal articles on topics ranging from campaign reporting and media ethics to “The West Wing.” 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.