Helen Franklin Firstbrook Professor of Journalism
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Sue Robinson (PhD, Temple University, 2007) holds the Helen Franklin Firstbrook Professor of Journalism chair as a tenured, full professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She researches and teaches on digital networks, media ecologies, multimedia, social media, journalism studies and other communication topics. She was a reporter for 13 years before entering the academy. Her first book, Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities, came out in November 2017 with Cambridge University Press.