Indira S. Somani

Indira S. Somani is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Journalism, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. She earned her Ph.D. from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park in May, 2008. She brings ten years of broadcast journalism experience as a producer to the classroom. She has been a writer and producer of financial broadcasts for CNBC, and a senior producer for "Early Today," an NBC network newscast. She has also been a show and field producer for WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., where she won the prestigious Gracie Allen Award in 1998 for the "Working Woman" portrait series. She has been a leader of the South Asian Journalists Association, where she has also won several "Outstanding" awards on her coverage of South Asians in North America. Somani has also produced content for dot com sites and documentaries. During the 2003-2004 academic year, she was an Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism with American University's School of Communication. At University of Maryland, she has taught broadcast news producing, and has been a teaching assistant for Media Literacy. Somani earned her Master's in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in 1993.

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