Stacey Cone
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2002, University of North Carolina
E332 Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-335-3356
stacey-cone@uiowa.edu
Personal Web site: http://myweb.uiowa.edu/stacone/
Stacey Cone's research interests are in the area of media history, particularly focusing on the relationship between domestic propaganda (produced by both government and private industry) and democratic theory. Her current research traces a history of governmental propaganda activities in the United States in the twentieth century and the impact of those activities on national culture and identity. She teaches broadcast television news, media history, and a special topics course on propaganda.
She worked for eight years as an assistant producer, associate producer, and producer in the Special Reports department at CNN in Atlanta, producing long-form television news series and hour-long documentaries on social issues domestically and internationally. Programs she helped produce for CNN covered everything from the Gulf War to the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Cone also spent a year and a half working as an "online producer," helping to build community for CNN Online forums. Her early professional experience included award-winning work as a public radio news reporter and producer for WFIU in Bloomington, IN.
Cone’s B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are in journalism and mass communication. She received a university fellowship at the University of South Carolina and was a Park Fellowship recipient at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined the Iowa faculty in 2002.
She has published several refereed articles in /Journalism History /and/ American Journalism/ and has a 90-page manuscript currently under review at /Journalism & Communication Monographs/. She received the top faculty media history paper award at the AEJMC National Convention in 2002 and received the top student research paper award for history from the AEJMC Southeast Regional Conference in 1997. She is currently working on an article for /Communication Law & Policy/ about the conceptual history and treatment of propaganda by the Supreme Court in the twentieth century.