Caitlin Carlson and Haley Witt win top paper award

Caitlin Carlson, assistant professor of communication, and Haley Witt, ’19, were awarded Top Paper for the Commission on the Status of Women division of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). They will present the paper, “Online harassment of U.S. women journalists and its impact on press freedom,” at the AEJMC conference in Toronto in August. Carlson will also be presenting her paper, “Exploring legal solutions to address the problem of hate speech in the United States.”