PEOPLE: JACQUELINE E. SHARKEY

Jacqueline E. Sharkey
Office - Marshall 334
Telephone - 621-7556
E-mail - sharkey@u.arizona.edu

Jacqueline E. Sharkey is head of The University of Arizona Department of Journalism, and the Soldwedel Professor of Journalism. She also holds a joint appointment with the Latin American Studies department. Her research areas include the relationship between press coverage and U.S. policy formation, coverage of U.S. military conflicts, and media ethics.

Her book, Under Fire - U.S. Military Restrictions on the Media from Grenada to the Persian Gulf, has been cited in academic and military studies. Sharkey's articles about U.S. covert operations in Central America helped lay the foundation for a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee investigation, and were praised by Iran-contra congressional investigators as a blueprint for parts of their probe. The articles won major national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the Overseas Press Club.

Sharkey's innovative teaching has led to university and national teaching honors, including a Freedom Forum Journalism Teacher of the Year award. She also received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Colombia, and a Shorenstein Fellowship to do research at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Sharkey, who has chaired the department since 2001, has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Arizona, and a master's in the study of law from Yale Law School.