Erica Hunzinger

Erica Hunzinger is an assistant teaching professor of journalism. She spent nearly 20 years in newspaper, public radio and wire service newsrooms across the country as an editor (and occasional reporter) and is experienced in editing almost every topic imaginable — but with particular expertise in politics, health and science, sports, agriculture, climate and collaborative journalism. 

About half of her career was with The Associated Press, first in Chicago as a desk editor for a 14-state region. She later returned to the AP as a sports desk editor and then the public health collaborations editor after stints as the senior politics editor at the Denver Post and an assigning editor with Missouri NPR affiliates St. Louis Public Radio and KCUR. Erica also worked at the Raleigh News & Observer in North Carolina and the News-Journal in Delaware and had a Dow Jones News Fund internship at the San Diego Union-Tribune. 

Her reporters’ hard work has been recognized for its excellence with a GLAAD Media Award, a Public Media Journalists Association award, regional Edward R. Murrow awards and several AP Best of the Week honorable mentions. 

Erica graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor’s in journalism, then earned an MA in humanities (with a focus on poetry) at the University of Chicago. In her free time, she can be found outside with her dog.