About the Author

Joyce Hoffmann is an associate professor at Old Dominion University. Prior to that, for twenty years, she was a daily and freelance journalist. Her book, On Their Own: Women Journalists and the AmericanExperience in Vietnam, published by DaCapo Press in 2008, reflects her long interest in the role of women in American journalism. She has a PhD in American studies from New York University. Her dissertation, Theodore H. White and Journalism as Illusion, explored the political journalist's career role in shaping the coverage of presidential campaigns in the last four decades of the twentieth century. It was published by the University of Missouri Press and won the 1995 Frank Luther Mott Research Award.