Lisa Barr

Dr. Lisa Barr urges you to Question US Media in her MWF Fall 2009 Courses. She is a journalist/scholar who is active in the media reform movement of scholars. Following a 17-year, award-winning commercial and public broadcast news career in medium and large media markets, she completed graduate work focusing on critical media theory and mass media law (Master's in Mass Communication University of Florida, Ph.D. Mass Media Bowling Green State University, J.D. The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL). Barr is editor in chief of Communications and the Law, and presented: "Stacking the Deck: Corporate Media and the September 2007 FCC Hearing on Chicago's South Side" at the June, 2008 National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis; "When Liberal Columnists Attack: 'Travels with Uncle Chet' and Hillary Bashing in Primary 2008" at the Women and Power Conference at University of South Dakota in October, 2008, and  "Is 'Pro-Obama' 'Anti-Islam'?: The Nature of a Campaign to Contradict an Internet Rumor" at the American U.S. Arab Communication Educators Conference (AUSACE) in November, 2008.  She also serves as a reviewer of scholarly media law articles for AEJMC's Law Division, Commission on the Status of Women, Journal of Communication Inquiry and other professional groups.  Dr. Barr teaches courses about reporting for various media platforms, media law and ethics, media coverage of social movements, and critical theory of media performance.  Barr organized the 2008 Fall J-Day, "Preparing for Multimedia Storytelling in an Age of War and its Aftermath," attended by over 100 western Illinois High School students, and the related viewings of the award-winning documentary, "Forgiving Dr. Mengele," discussed by film-maker Bob Hercules and Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor.  As advisor of the inaugural WIU chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Barr organized the February 2009 "The Past, Present, and Future of Minority Media: Two panels," which featured discussions with Ebony editors.   She has an old cat and a 'teenaged' cat and likes to garden.