Tracy Everbach PhD

Print and Digital
Professor

Sycamore Hall 254

Tracy Everbach headshot

Tracy Everbach teaches writing and reporting; race, gender and media; and graduate classes in media studies and qualitative research. Her research interests include gender and race in media, newsroom management and sports coverage. She has published research in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Journal of Research on Women and Gender, American Journalism, Media Report to Women, Columbia Journalism Review. She is co-author of the books Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology & Harassment (2018) and Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversy in The Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom (2020). She has served as the head of the Commission on the Status of Women for AEJMC, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She also is former faculty adviser to the North Texas Daily, UNT's student newspaper.

Degrees:

  • Ph.D. in Journalism, University of Missouri, 2004
  • Master of Arts in Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, 2000
  • Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Boston University, 1984

Experience:

She worked for 14 years as a newspaper reporter, 12 of them at The Dallas Morning News, where she covered crime, courts, county government and social services. She worked on in-depth projects examining domestic violence and juvenile killers and covered the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco. She won several professional journalism awards, including the Carole Kneeland Award from the Texas Governor's Commission on Women, and the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. She also reported for two years at the Boston Herald. Before teaching at UNT, she taught journalism writing and reporting and mass media classes for two years at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

Awards:

UNT Presidents Council Service Award, UNT, 2019.

Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2019.