PEOPLE: JACQUELINE E. SHARKEY
Jacqueline E. SharkeyOffice - Marshall 334
Telephone - 621-7556
E-mail - sharkey@u.arizona.edu
Jacqueline E. Sharkey is director of The University of Arizona School of Journalism, and the Soldwedel Professor of Journalism. She also holds a joint appointment with the Center for Latin American Studies.
Sharkey, who has chaired the school since 2001, helped guide the transformation of a program whose focus had been largely print to one that offers a well-rounded, encompassing approach to information gathering and distribution and converges print, broadcast, and online.
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 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.