Robin Blom

I teach news reporting, content strategy, and media analytics on the undergraduate level and media theory, mass communication and society, media law and ethics, and data journalism on the graduate level. I also teach courses about eyewitness misidentification, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories in the Honors College.

I previously taught journalism and media studies courses and seminars at Point Park University and Michigan State University, in both the College of Communication Arts & Sciences and James Madison College. I also created and taught a business journalism course at Ball State after I was selected as a Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism Fellow for training by experienced reporters, data scientists, and journalism educators from all around the country. I also have been selected for the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) faculty fellowship program.

Graduate courses taught (Ball State University)
Journalistic judgments and sociology of news
Media audiences and content strategy
Research and reporting methods
Social media analytics and engagement
Studies in journalism and communication theory

Undergraduate courses taught (Ball State University)
Audience analysis: Communities
Audiences and Media Analytics
Business Journalism
Eyewitness misidentification and social injustice (HC)
Honors Thesis (HC)
Journalistic storytelling: Covering issues
Legal and ethical principles
Media analytics and content strategy
Media analytics in practice
Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories (HC)

Undergraduate courses taught (Michigan State University)
Citizen journalism: The 2008 presidential election (TA)
Cultures and politics in transnational perspective (Fellow)
Gathering and writing news
Introduction to mass media (TA)

Undergraduate courses taught (Point Park University)
Publication project II (TA)