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Carolyn M. Byerly
Carolyn M. Byerly is Professor, Department of Journalism, Howard University, Washington, DC, where she serves on the Mass Communication & Media Studies graduate faculty and on the Howard Women's Studies Steering Committee. She teaches graduate seminars in media theory, mass communication research methods, media effects, media law and policy and other topics. Her research is broadly concerned with social justice and the media. Her recent research has pursued an applied path, examining media ownership by women and racial minorities and advocating for gender and race-conscious communication policy in the US Federal Communications Commission. She is the author of the study Behind the Scenes of Women's Broadcast Ownership (Howard Journal of Communication, January 2011), and numerous other studies and formal comments to the FCC. She collaborates with other faculty colleagues on media policy issues through the Howard Media Group.
She also just completed a two-year project, Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a 59-nation study conducted among 522 radio, television and newspaper companies. That report will be published by its sponsor, International Women's Media Foundation, in March 2011.
Her longstanding concern about the ways in which grassroots activism has challenged to media exclusion of women and minorities prompted a number of studies, including her co-authored book (with Karen Ross), Women and Media: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell, 2006), and a second edited volume (also with Karen Ross), Women and Media: International Perspectives (Blackwell, 2004).
She is the author of many additional articles and book chapters.
