Brief Biography

Mindy McAdams joined the faculty of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida in August 1999 as the Knight Chair for journalism technologies and the democratic process. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in online journalism.

Her book Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages was published by Focal Press in April 2005.

She lived in Malaysia for eight months in 2004 and 2005, teaching and doing research as a Fulbright Scholar.

In 2008 she taught two courses about online journalism for Vietnamese journalists in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Before moving to Florida, Mindy was the Web strategist at the American Press Institute and lived in Washington, D.C. In 1994-95, she was the first content developer at Digital Ink, The Washington Post’s first online newspaper. Prior to that, she was a copy editor for 11 years.

She worked full-time on the Metro copy desk at The Washington Post and full-time on the copy desk at Time magazine in New York.

She earned a bachelor's degree in print journalism at Penn State and a master's degree in media studies at The New School for Social Research in New York.