Rachel Davis Mersey
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
111 Murphy Call/206 Church St. SE
Minneapolis MN 55455
612-625-9824
Rachel Mersey teaches journalism at the University of Minnesota. She completed her Ph.D. in mass communications at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and holds a masters in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern. Formerly she was a fashion and beauty writer, food and home writer for "The Arizona Republic" (Phoenix) and style correspondent for KPNX, a Gannett-owned NBC affiliate in Phoenix. She has written and co-written papers about student newspapers, financial conflicts, the Yahoo news portal and the editor-publisher relationship.