Doug Newsom, Ph.D., APR, Fellow is the author of one book, co-author of three textbooks and a professor in the Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University. She is director of the School's ad/pr graduate programs. Also, she serves as an elected member of the Council of the International Public Relations Association and is on the board of the International Public Relations Research Conference.

In 1992 she was chair of the Public Relations Society of America's College of Fellows, and in 1982 she won PRSA's Educator of the Year Award, the first given to a woman. She was the second woman president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the first public relations educator to hold that office. In 1996, Dr. Newsom was named a National Headliner by Women Communications, Inc. and received the Texas Public Relations Association's Golden Spur Award.

She has been president of the Texas Public Relations Association, the Dallas and Fort Worth Chapters of PRSA, the Southwest Education Council for Journalism/Mass Communication, Fort Worth Professional Chapter of Women in Communications, Inc. and head of the Educators' Section of PRSA of which she was a co-founder and head of the PR Division of AEJMC. She is a co-founder of the minorities division of AEJMC. She has served as vice president of ASJMC, the organization of mass communication administrators. She is a charter life member of the Public Relations Foundation of Texas.

From 1981 until 1983 she chaired the Accrediting Committee which she had served on since 1979. The Committee reports to the Accrediting Council on Education for Journalism and Mass Communication.

National honorary organizations of which she is a member include: Kappa Tau Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Delta and Mortar Board.

A Fulbright lecturer in India during 1988 and in Singapore in 1998-1999, she also has done workshops in Latvia, South Africa, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Vanuatu. Except for Latvia, workshop sponsors were the Cox International Center for Education and Training in Journalism and Mass Communication and the International Center for Economic Growth. The Latvia workshop was sponsored by the George Soros Foundation and USIA. She also has taught in TCU's London Centre.

In 1993, the J. Willard Ridings Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America which she was responsible for getting started at TCU instituted a named scholarship for her. In 2001, Staley McBrayer endowed a scholarship at TCU in her honor. She is also the recipient of the Jon Riffel/PRSSA Championship Award 1968-1992. She was national PRSSA coordinator in 1979-80 and is a member of the Friends of PRSSA.

In 1982, the University of Texas named her the Outstanding Public Relations Alumnus of the Year. Her degrees from there include a Bachelor of Journalism, cum laude, 1954; Bachelor of Fine Arts, summa cum laude (broadcasting), 1955; Masters of Journalism, 1956 and Doctor of Philosophy, 1978.

At TCU she has served as chair of the Journalism Department (1979-86), head of the Faculty Senate, chair of the University Advisory Committee, Coordinator of the Media Studies Graduate program until it was discontinued and then she became director of the Journalism Department's two graduate programs.

Her books include This Is PR: The Realities of Public Relations (with Judy VanSlyke Turk and Dean Kruckeberg) in its 9th edition in 2006; Public Relations Writing (with the late Bob Carrell) now with Jim Haynes, 7th edition 2005 and Media Writing, 2nd ed.(with the late Jim Wollert). The two writing books were the first in the field and she was the first with a PR principles text to challenge the long-standing text in the field. In 1995, a book of papers presented at an international colloquium which she coordinated: The New Decade for Women was published with Dr. Newsom as editor. A workshop which she coordinated in Hungary also resulted in a book on media and government relations published in Hungarian by the government of Hungary.

In addition to her academic activities, she serves on the Board of Directors of ONEOK, a diversified energy company. She is one of three members of the Graduate Scholarship Committee for the Delta Delta Delta Foundation. She has been chair of the Fulbright discipline committee and served on the communication selection committee for the International Research and Exchanges Board. She served 18 years on the Advisory Council of GRI which became GTI. Locally, she was the 2002 president of the Episcopal Women's Caucus and the 1996 president of the Tarrant Area Community of Churches. Now she serves on the Board of Catholic Charities and is a Stephen's Minister for Trinity Episcopal Church.

B.J. University of Texas at Austin

B.F.A. University of Texas at Austin

M.J. University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin