Rate My Professor Ivy Ashe

Ivy Ashe serves as Assistant Professor of Multimedia Journalism in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University, part of the Communications faculty, having joined the department as a full-time faculty member in the summer of 2022. She holds a Ph.D. in Journalism and Media from the University of Texas at Austin, where her dissertation titled "Where are we going? Examining place and national identity through the aspirational frames of domestic travel media" explored framing practices in American travel media. Ashe also earned an M.A. in photojournalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a B.A. in Linguistics and Hispanic Studies from Rice University. Her research investigates the role of journalism in structuring the public’s sense of place, particularly in tourist or seasonal destinations, employing mixed methods such as interviews, surveys, and textual analyses. Key areas of expertise include media and geography, tourism and journalism, visual journalism, self-presentation on social media, and journalism roles and functions. At FAU, she teaches courses in photojournalism, multimedia journalism, and sports communication.

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.