Debora Wenger, Ph.D. is director and associate professor at the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media. She worked in TV newsrooms in Fargo ND, Ft. Myers Fl, Manchester NH, Charlotte NC and Tampa FL.

Wenger’s work has been recognized with dozens of national, regional and local awards including a Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Journalism and a Scripps Headliner Award. She is a Society of Professional Journalists/Google News Lab trainer and is co-author of the widely-adopted broadcast journalism textbook, Advancing the Story: Journalism in a Multimedia World, as well as Managing Today’s News Media: Audience First.

Wenger moved full time into teaching in 2002 and in 2017 she was named as a top broadcast journalism educator by Crain’s NewsPro magazine.