HUFFMAN, Suzanne 1951-

PERSONAL:

Born March 2, 1951, in Johnson City, TN; daughter of Carrol Statton and Margaret Anne Byrd Huffman; married August F. Schilling, III. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Texas Christian University, B.A., 1973; University of Iowa, M.A., 1978; University of Missouri—Columbia, Ph.D., 1992. Religion: United Methodist. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, reading, tap dancing.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Journalism, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 298060, Fort Worth, TX 76129. E-mail—s.huffman@tcu.edu.

CAREER:

Educator and author. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, associate professor of journalism, 1999—. Formerly worked as a television news reporter, anchor, and producer in Cedar Rapids, IA, Santa Maria, CA, and Tampa, FL; taught broadcast journalism at three other universities.

WRITINGS:

(With C. A. Tuggle and Forrest Carr) Broadcast News Handbook, McGraw-Hill (Boston, MA), 2001.

(With Judith Sylvester) Women Journalists at Ground Zero: Covering Crisis, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

A book with Judith Sylvester about U.S. journalists who were embedded with troops in Iraq in the spring of 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Suzanne Huffman is an associate professor of journalism who, with fellow educator Judith Sylvester, coauthored Women Journalists at Ground Zero: Covering Crisis.

Huffman told CA: "These women's experiences during this catastrophic situation illustrate that journalists have to be smart, they have to be strong, and they have to be focused. I think those who read this book will learn how much true grit it takes to be a journalist these days."

For more information, see the Sidelights entry on Judith Sylvester.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, November 1, 2002, Susan M. Colowick, review of Women Journalists at Ground Zero: Covering Crisis, p. 101.

ONLINE

Advocate Online,http://www.theadvocate.com/ (September 24, 2002), Marlene Naanes, "Women Who Covered 9-11 Tell Their Stories."

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Web site,http://www.dartcenter.org/ (April 14, 2003), Meg Spratt, review of Women Journalists at Ground Zero.

Interational Journalists' Network Web site,http://ijnet.org/ (January 29, 2003), "New Books Recount September 11 as Experienced by Journalists."