Diane L.
Borden
Diane L. Borden is an associate
professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University. She teaches
mass communication law and theory as well as courses in journalism. She previously
taught at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and at Temple University
in Philadelphia. She served as the project director for the American Society of
Newspaper Editors (ASNE), where she was responsible for the administration of
more than $1.5 million in grant projects. She earned a B.A. in technical journalism
from Colorado State University, an M.A. in communication from Stanford University,
and a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Washington in Seattle. She
came to academe after a lengthy career in professional journalism, including a
10-year tenure with Gannett Co. Inc., during which time she worked as a newspaper
editor and publisher in a variety of media markets. She has a keen interest in
how the mass media and other cultural institutions, such as the judicial system,
historically have constructed social reality, particularly images of women and
minorities. Her research tends to focus on the intersection of communication,
gender and the law. She is the co-author of a textbook on editing for contemporary
print media and an editor of a book on journalism in the new online environment.
Her legal scholarship has been published in several refereed journals, and she
is involved in a number of ongoing research projects, including a study of gender
and cyberlibel.
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