Rate My Professor Ivy Ashe

Prior to her academic career, Ashe gained extensive professional experience as a general assignment reporter and photographer for the Hawaii Tribune-Herald from April 2015 to July 2017, covering agriculture, conservation, health beats, and leading the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Centennial section. Previously, from March 2011 to April 2015, she worked as reporter and staff photographer for the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, Massachusetts, covering government, education, arts, agriculture, health, sports, and business. Her journalism work earned numerous accolades, including first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (Hawaii chapter) in feature writing and health reporting, and from the New England Newspaper & Press Association in science and technology reporting, history reporting, sports stories, and photo illustration. Ashe's scholarly publications feature “Travel blogging, professionalism, and the changing boundaries of knowledge production” in Media, Culture & Society (2022), “Journalism’s visual construction of place in environmental coverage” co-authored with K. Lough in Newspaper Research Journal (2021), “Examining podcast listeners’ perceptions of the journalistic functions of podcasts” co-authored in Electronic News (2022), and “The antecedents and consequences of conspiracy beliefs around COVID-19” co-authored in International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2022). She has presented her research at mass communication conferences across the United States, Canada, and Belgium, securing Top Paper awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication divisions.