Betsy O'Donovan, MA

Assistant Professor

About

B.A., English, Wake Forest University and M.Phil., Writing, Trinity College Dublin. O'Donovan has been a journalist since 1998, and has been a reporter, editor, producer and strategist in print, digital, public radio and television newsrooms. She has been a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard since 2012 and was the co-founder of the media consultancy Hedgehog+Fox, where she developed newsletter, podcast and social strategy for organizations including StoryCorps, Kaiser Health News, the Ashoka Foundation, the Association of Independents in Radio and others. O'Donovan's writing has been published by the American Press Institute, the Knight Foundation, the Boston Globe, Poynter, Nieman Reports and Nieman Lab, and Publishers Weekly, and community, regional and national newsrooms. She previously taught at feature writing at Harvard University's summer school and ethics and media studies at Northeastern University in Boston, and was the executive director of The Daily Tar Heel, the independent, nonprofit student newsroom at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include community engagement strategies, disruptive innovation in publishing, journalists' sourcing practices, and representations of romance and mystery novels in media.