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Gretchen Dworznik

Gretchen Hoak

School of Media and Journalism
Associate Professor
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305E Franklin Hall
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gdworzni [at] kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-8725

Biography

Dr. Gretchen Hoak is an Assistant Professor of Journalism in the School of Media and Journalism at Kent State University.

Before entering academia, she spent 10 years as a local television news reporter and anchor. She is an advisor to the student-run campus television station, TV2, and teaches both beginning and upper-level reporting and news broadcasting courses. Her research agenda focuses on the psychological and emotional effects that covering traumatic news stories can have on journalists, such as post-traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, depression, and emotional labor. She regularly presents her work at AEJMC and ICA conferences, and her research has been published in several academic journals including Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, and Newspaper Research Journal.

Before coming to Kent State University in 2015, she spent 9 years on the faculty at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. There she served as Chair of the Department of Journalism and Digital Media and helped create a curriculum that was recognized by Nieman Reports as the first truly converged multimedia journalism program in Ohio.

Dr. Hoak earned her B.A. in Radio/TV Broadcasting from Ashland University in 1998, an MA in Mass Communication from The University of Akron in 2004, and a PhD in Media Effects from Kent State University in 2008.

More information about her work can be viewed on LinkedIn. You can also find her online at Twitter.

Education

Ashland University, BA in Radio/Television Broadcasting, The University of Akron, MA in Mass Communication, Kent State University, PhD in Media Effects

Awards/Achievements

  • Newspaper Research Journal - Most Outstanding Research Article / Spring 2020 2nd Place
  • Open Paper Competition - Mass Communication & Society division of AEJMC / August 2020 2nd Place
  • Open Paper Competition - Mass Communication & Society division of AEJMC / August 2019
  • Top Paper Award for the Research Division of BEA / April 2017

News Stories

“Reporters often cover traumatic events but discussions of mental health are rare in most newsrooms. That’s changing.”, “Covering the carnage: Journalists risk own mental, physical health in reporting from Dayton, El Paso”, “Detroit debate debacle? CNN faces criticism, plus how to rob a bank (?!?) and Harvey’s impact on journalists”, “How journalists’ jobs affect their mental health: A research roundup” , "IPSO Blog: Does reporting on major incidents have an impact on journalists?", "Kent State Professor Researches Trauma in Journalists"
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