Alyssa Appelman

July 22, 2019
Job Title: Assistant professor
Discipline/Program: Journalism program
Area of Expertise: Copy editing and data journalism
Bio: I am starting my fifth year as an assistant professor at NKU. I teach undergraduate journalism courses, including news writing, copy editing/design and data journalism. I also conduct research on journalistic message credibility. I have conducted projects on the effects and significance of grammatical errors, stylistic errors and factual errors in news articles. I have also conducted studies that specifically examine message effects and information processing in digital and social media.
Before joining NKU, I worked in print media as a copy editor, proofreader and page designer. In college, I interned at The Washington Times and The Washington Post, following training at my high school and college newspapers. I then worked for Freedom Communications as a copy editor and page designer on a consolidated/hub news desk for publications across the Florida Panhandle: Apalachicola Times, Crestview News Bulletin, The Destin Log, Gulf Defender, Holmes County Times—Advertiser, Northwest Florida Daily News, (Panama City) News Herald, Santa Rosa Press Gazette, The (Port St. Joe) Star, Walton Sun, and Washington County News. I also worked as a freelance copy editor and proofreader for multiple organizations, including Voices of Central Pennsylvania, the Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. and Samsung Research America.
I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Ph.D. in mass communications from The Pennsylvania State University.
Favorite Social Media: I like Facebook and Twitter.
Dream Job: This!
Fun Fact: I’ve been vegan for the past 17 years.