She specializes in teaching and writing about politics and the media, the depiction of women in media and politics, and young people and the news. From 1989 to 1997 she covered women in TV news as an award-winning media reporter for the Los Angeles Times in New York. She has been a regular contributor to Columbia Journalism Review, the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics, the Freedom Forum Media Studies Journal, and other publications. She is also a TV commentator on the media.