Elizabeth Meyers Hendrickson

Dr. Elizabeth Hendrickson’s career demonstrates the value of combining a journalism and liberal arts education. She’s worked as a daily newspaper reporter, a network news producer and for nearly a decade, as a women’s magazine entertainment editor in New York City. What she brings to the classroom and academic community is an understanding of media dynamics and technology and unfailing optimism and curiosity about the continued evolution of journalism. To the occasional mortification of her two children, Elizabeth is willing to be the first to try something new, if that means she (and others) can learn from the experience.

Her undergraduate courses offered include the News and Information Capstone for Southeast Ohio magazine, Podcasting & Audio Journalism, Writing and Editing for Fashion Journalism, Magazine Editing and Production, Magazine Feature Writing and Media Business and the Future of Journalism. She is the co-creator and the journalism coordinator for the Podcasting Certificate. Her graduate courses include Case Study Methodology in Media Studies, Mass Media Ethics and Qualitative Research Methods in Journalism. She regularly works with students in the Honors Tutorial College and serves on many graduate student thesis committees.

Outside the classroom, Elizabeth is a judge for the National Magazine Awards and advises numerous student media, including the award-winning fashion publication, Thread. She also regularly reviews research manuscripts for the Newspaper Research Journal, the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and the Journal of Magazine Media and is an active member of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Magazine Media Division. Her published research appears in the Journal of Magazine Media, Journalism Practice, Celebrity Studies and Journal of Social Semiotics, among others, and nearly always includes the terms mobile, digital, content, collaboration, organization, media and journalism.

Publications

Hendrickson, E. and Ferguson, K. (2024) "The magazine mirage: Implementing experiential learning for Capstone curriculum in a news desert." Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, p. 1 – 20.

(Essay and Reports) Mags and Mics: An Exploration of Magazine-Affiliated Podcasts and Who Is Investing in Audio. Journal of Magazine Media, Volume 23, Number 1–2, Fall-Spring 2022–23, pp. 1 – 12.

Hendrickson, E. & Subotin, A. (2021) Mergers, Acquisitions and Magazine Media in 2021. Journalism Practice

Speakman, B., Hendrickson, E. & Atkins, A. (August 2020) What price, tag? A study of community voice and the monetization of Twitter. Community Journalism.

Abrahamson, D., Hendrickson, E. & Peck, A. (2018) There Once Was a Profession Called Magazine Editing: Exploring the Brave New World. Journal of Magazine & New Media Research, 18(2), 1-10.

Hinnant, A., & Hendrickson E. (2014) Negotiating normalcy in celebrity health behavior: A focus group analysis. Journal of Magazine & New Media Research, 15(2), 1-16.

Rightler-Daniels, J. & Hendrickson, E. (2014). Hoes and hashtags: Constructions of gender and race in trending topics. Social Semiotics, 24(2), 175-190.

Brown, C., Hendrickson, E., & Littau, J. (2014). New opportunities for diversity: Twitter, journalists and traditionally underserved communities. Journal of Social Media Studies, 1(1), 1-16.

Hendrickson, E., Singh, V. & Redmond, C. (2013). iPerceive: Platform priorities and workplace innovation in America’s consumer magazine industry. International Symposium on Online Journalism, 3(1). 19-38.

Hendrickson, E. (2013). To have and to hold: Millennial, magazines and mobile. Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 14(2), 45-52.

Hinnant, A. & Hendrickson, E. (2012) Rhetorical visions of health: a fantasy-theme analysis of celebrity articles. Celebrity Studies, 3(2), 1-16.

Hendrickson, E. (2009). Good for business? IM and the virtual newsroom. Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 11(1), 89-109.

Hendrickson, E. (2009). Economic rationalism in popular culture: Celebrity booking in America’s women’s magazines. Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 11(2), 31-47.

Hendrickson, E. & Wilkins, L. (2009). The wages of synergy. Journalism Practice, 3(4), 377-391.

Presentations and Awards

• Scripps College of Communication Learn Pillar Award, 2025