Dr. Aimee Edmondson's home school is the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism where she is a professor in media law and journalism history with a particular focus on civil-rights related libel law, critical race theory and free expression.
Aimee Edmondson
A third-generation newspaper reporter
Her grandfather published and edited the Terrebonne Press in Louisiana and her uncle was a journalist. In the dozen years she worked in newsrooms around the country, she’s covered just about every beat – cops, courts, politics, education, poverty, features, sports and special projects. She continues her journalism in her research and writing about media and is honored to educate the next generation of truth tellers.
Edmondson has taught data journalism using the techniques of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) since 2008 and has traveled to such locations as Kenya, China, Kazakhstan, India and Germany to lead workshops for journalists and journalism educators.
She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism (2008), Master of Arts from the University of Memphis (1999) and her Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University Manship School of Journalism (1990).
When she is not committing journalism or traveling to teach data journalism, she is working on her farm in the Appalachian foothills. She is interested in local food economies and sustainability. You can find her in her vegetable garden and hanging out with a herd of goats, two cattle dogs and a flock of chickens.
