Marie K. Shanahan

Hartford, Connecticut Area United States

Assistant Professor of Journalism at University of Connecticut

Specialties: Interactive communications and digital journalism, including news reporting, writing and editing; web site content management, production and usability; social media; search engine optimization; blogging; aggregation; web metrics; HTML; CSS; photo editing, audio editing, video editing and data visualization. Also, multimedia skills training, public speaking, team building and mentoring young journalists. My academic research focuses on online commenting on news websites, free speech, anonymity, digital defamation, online reputation, and trends in hyperlocal news.