[Selected honors and awards]

• 2023, Best article for the Summer 2023 issue, Newspaper Research Journal
• 2023, Best Paper Award, African Journalism Studies journal
• 2023, First place, Robert L. Stevenson Open Paper Competition, International Communication Division, AEJMC
• 2022, First place, Robert L. Stevenson Open Paper Competition, International Communication Division, AEJMC
• 2021, Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award, AEJMC—“one of the highest honors that AEJMC can bestow on a member”
• 2020, Finalist for the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 2020 Outstanding Research Article Award

Karen McIntyre, PhD, joined the SOJC faculty in fall 2024 after nine years in academia. She is a leading researcher in the field of solutions—and constructive—journalism. She introduced the term constructive journalism to the academic literature in her 2015 dissertation and has since published numerous studies investigating the processes and effects of these emerging approaches, which aim to create more productive news stories that contribute to society’s wellbeing. Along with the SOJC’s Dr. Nicole Dahmen, she edited a book on such socially responsible forms of journalism, Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic Journalism to Solutions Journalism.

McIntyre also studies press freedom and journalism practice in East Africa and served as a Fulbright scholar in Rwanda during the 2018-19 academic year. Her fieldwork in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya culminated in her 2023 book, Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa, co-authored with Dr. Meghan Sobel Cohen of Regis University.

McIntyre teaches undergraduate and graduate journalism courses including Journalism Writing, Multiplatform Storytelling, Media Law and Ethics, and Solutions Journalism. Prior to coming to the UO, McIntyre worked as an associate professor and director of graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Before joining the academy, she worked as a print and online journalist. She has traveled to more than 40 countries and is originally from Lake Tahoe, California.

• PhD, Mass Communication, University of North Carolina
• MA, Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
• BS, Journalism, California State University, Chico

[Selected journal publications; please see Google Scholar for a complete list of papers]

• Mothes, C., Mellado, C., Boudana, S., Himma, M., Nolan, D., McIntyre, K. … (2024). Spurring or Blurring Professional Standards? The Role of Digital Technology in Implementing Journalistic Role Ideals in Contemporary Newsrooms. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 10776990241246692
• Lough, K., McIntyre, K., & Roff, K. (2024). Beyond the Classroom: Evaluating Solutions Journalism Education From the Perspective of University Graduates. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 10776958241254152.
• McIntyre, K., Abdenour, J., Maduneme, E., & Skjerdal, T. (2023). Investigating the gap between journalists’ role conceptions and role performance in Rwanda and Ethiopia. Journalism Studies, 24(12), 1497-1517.
• McIntyre, K. & Lough, K. (2023). Evaluating the effects of solutions and constructive journalism: A systematic review of audience-focused research. Newspaper Research Journal, 44(3), 276-300.
• McIntyre, K., & Sobel Cohen, M. (2022). Journalistic role orientations in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. International Communication Gazette, 86(3), 256-274.
• Lough, K., & McIntyre, K. (2021). A systematic review of constructive and solutions journalism research. Journalism, 24(5), 1069-1088.
• McIntyre, K. & Sobel Cohen, M. (2021). Public Trust in State-Run News Media in Rwanda. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 98(3), 808-827.
• McIntyre, K. (2020). ‘Tell me something good’: Testing the longitudinal effects of constructive news using the Google Assistant. Electronic News, 14(1), 37-54.
• McIntyre, K. (2019). Solutions journalism: The effects of including solution information in news stories about social problems. Journalism Practice, 13(1), 16-34.
• McIntyre, K., Dahmen, N., & Abdenour, J. (2018). The contextualist function: U.S. newspaper journalists value social responsibility. Journalism, 19(12), 1657-1675.