Workshop Participants
Lynette Holman is currently an assistant professor of journalism at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. She was a Roy H. Park Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill and earned her Ph.D. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in December of 2010. While at UNC she taught the Introduction to Multimedia Storytelling class. She currently teaches Converged Media at AppState.
Prior to entering UNC’s Ph.D. program, she was a visiting professor of journalism at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Va. where she taught news writing, design and editing, photojournalism and online journalism. She has a B.F.A. in photography from James Madison University and a master’s degree in journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. She spent 10 years as an editor and designer in the newspaper industry, with most of her career spent at The Virginian-Pilot.
Lynette is interested in media effects research, particularly in the realms of online news delivery and emerging media technologies. Her dissertation research focused on the priming effects of exemplification in online news presentations.