AMANDA HINNANT‘s research focuses on health journalism, disparities, information seeking, sociology of news, and magazine trends. Hinnant served as principal investigator for a Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research pilot grant project examining journalists reactions to racial health disparity framing. Hinnant was also part of the team working on the Missouri Health Literacy Enhancement initiative, funded by a grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health. Hinnant won top paper awards from the AEJMC Communication Science, Health, Environment and Risk Interest Group in 2010 and 2008 and from AEJMC Entertainment Studies Interest Group in 2010 and 2009. Recent publications include:

• “The Cancer on Your Coffee Table: A Discourse Analysis of the Health Content in Mass-Circulated Women’s Magazines,” Feminist Media Studies (2009).
• “Tacit Understandings of Health Literacy: Interview and Survey Research With Health Journalists” with María E. Len-Ríos in Science Communication (2009).

Hinnant teaches courses on magazine scholarship, journalism and democracy, as well as magazine reporting and writing. Her professional experience includes writing and editing for Real Simple and Glamour magazines. She is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and the International Communication Association. Hinnant earned her doctorate from Northwestern University, her master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism, and her bachelor’s degree from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She joined the Missouri School of Journalism magazine faculty in 2006.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• Amanda Hinnant, Hyun Jee Oh, Charlene Caburnay, & Matt Kreuter (in press). “What makes African-American health disparities newsworthy? An experiment among journalists about story framing.” Health Education Research.
• Amanda Hinnant, María E. Len-Ríos, & Hyun Jee Oh (in press). “Are Health Journalists’ Practices Tied to Their Perceptions of Audience? An Attribution and Expectancy-Value Approach.” Health Communication.
• Park, Sun-A., María E. Len-Ríos, & Amanda Hinnant (2010). “How Intrinsic and Extrinsic News Factors Affect Health Journalists’ Cognitive and Behavioural Attitudes Toward Media Relations.” PRism 7(1).
• Amanda Hinnant and María E. Len-Ríos (2009). “Tacit Understandings of Health Literacy: Interview and Survey Research With Health Journalists.” Science Communication, 31(1), 84-115.
• Amanda Hinnant. “The Cancer on Your Coffee Table: A Discourse Analysis of the Health Content in Mass-Circulated Women’s Magazines.” Feminist Media Studies, 9 (3) 317-333 (2009).
• María E. Len-Ríos, Amanda Hinnant, Sun-A Park, Glen T. Cameron, Cynthia M. Frisby and Youngah Lee. “Health News Agenda Building: Journalists’ Perceptions of the Role of Public Relations.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Summer 2009, Vol. 86 Issue 2, p. 315-331.
• Lindsay Ray and Amanda Hinnant. “Media Representation of Mental Disorders: A Study of ADD and ADHD Coverage in Magazines from 1985-2008.” Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 11 (1) (2009).
• Eszter Hargittai & Amanda Hinnant (2008). “Digital Inequality: Differences in Young Adults’ Use of the Internet.” Communication Research, 35(5), 602-621.

Refereed Paper Presentations

• Top Faculty Paper for Science Communication Interest Group. Amanda Hinnant & María E. Len-Ríos. “Tacit Understandings of Health Literacy: Interview and Survey Research with Health Journalists,” AEJMC annual conference, Chicago, August 2008.
• Amanda Hinnant, María E. Len-Ríos, Hyun Jee Oh, & Cynthia M. Frisby. “Are Journalists‚ Health Literacy Practices Tied to Their Perceptions of Audience? An Attribution Approach,” Health Communication Division, National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2009.
• Third Place for the Best of ESIG. Amanda Hinnant and Elizabeth Hendrickson. “Rhetorical Visions of Health: A Fantasy-Theme Analysis of Celebrity Articles.” AEJMC annual conference, Boston, Aug. 5-8, 2009.
• JiYeon Jeong, María Len-Ríos, Amanda Hinnant and Glen Cameron. “National Survey Finds Health Journalists Are Earnest about Their Educator Roles, Especially Newspaper Journalists.” AEJMC annual conference, Boston, Aug. 5-8, 2009.
• Aimee Wachtel and Amanda Hinnant. “Reading Travel Magazines: Frames of the Colonial ‘Other’ and Post-Modern Authenticity in Feature-Stories Featuring Non-Westerners.” AEJMC annual conference, Boston, Aug. 5-8, 2009.

Book Chapters

• Amanda Hinnant and Berkley Hudson. “The Magazine Revolution, 1880-1920,” in The Oxford History of U.S. Popular Print Culture.” ed. Christine Bold, University of Guelph. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. (In press 2011.)