Ruth Palmer

Ruth Palmer is Associate Professor of Communication at IE University, where her courses include Communication Foundations, Public Opinion and Persuasion, and Political Communication in the Bachelor, and Media Relations in the Master of Corporate Communication. She has also taught in the IE-Brown University Summer Program, and co-directed the IE Communications Lab.

Her research explores how people think about and relate to the news media. Her articles have appeared in the journals Journalism, Journalism Studies and Literary Journalism Studies. Her book Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight (Columbia University Press, 2017) explores how it feels for private citizens to interact with journalists and become the subject of a news story. She received her PhD in Communication from Columbia University in 2013. She is one of the authors of the book Avoiding the News along with Benjamin Toff and Rasmus Nielsen.