IAWRT-USA congratulates Dr. Michelle Ferrier, IAWRT-USA chapter member, on being elected president of IAWRT International.
TrollBusters Founder Dr. Michelle Ferrier was elected president of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television International for a two-year term. Dr. Michelle Ferrier, Ph.D., is executive director of the Media Innovation Collaboratory of Florida and an internationally recognized, award-winning technologist, journalist, scholar, author and speaker around journalism, technology, media innovation and entrepreneurship.
“I’m honored to serve IAWRT as president and lead during these critical times to help women journalists tell the stories that only we can tell of the pandemic or climate change or economic choices of our politicians and leaders that affect us as journalists and as women.”
Dr. Ferrier is a pioneer in digital content and online education communities as well as research around online communities, online education, digital identity and reputation management and media entrepreneurship. Ferrier is the founder and creator of TrollBusters, a just-in-time rescue service for women writers and women journalists. She is the principal investigator behind the Media Deserts Project that tracks access to fresh, local news and information. She is the former president of Journalism That Matters, an organization re-imagining the news and information landscape. She is the chief instigator behind the JTM “Create or Die” the media entrepreneurship startup events and the current project director on the Media Seeds Project of SE Ohio.
IAWRT International is a nongovernmental organization of women in the media with chapters and more than 400 members around the globe. Ferrier has been collaborating with IAWRT at domestic and international forums like the United Nations, the Commission on the Status of Women and other nonprofit organizations around journalists’ safety.
Ferrier says her two-year term will focus on advancing press freedoms for women journalists who are under attack in their own communities, to ensure that journalists can do the work they are trained to do.