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Ava Thompson Greenwell

Associate Professor, Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University

About the writer: Ava Thompson Greenwell is a journalism professor at Medill, Northwestern University and also a doctoral student in African American Studies. She has been teaching broadcast writing and video storytelling since 1993 and is a former news reporter at WFLA-TV, WCCO-TV and WEHT-TV. Her research interests include the history of black women journalists in television news. She can be reached at a-greenwell@northwestern.edu.