Jennifer Henrichsen

Biography

Biography

Dr. Jennifer R. Henrichsen is an Assistant Professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. She is Senior Personnel with the VICEROY Northwest Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER), an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), and an Affiliated Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC).

A former Fulbright Research Scholar, Henrichsen holds MA degrees from the University of Geneva and the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

She twice has been a consultant to UNESCO where she produced global reports on the state of journalism. Henrichsen is published in Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter, and she was previously a political correspondent. Henrichsen has received 11 fellowships, including from Yale, Columbia University, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and the Knight Foundation.

Henrichsen’s work has been cited more than 300 times, including by the U.S. Government and the United Nations. Henrichsen is a global expert in her field as evidenced by 80 conference presentations and invited lectures across North America, Europe, and Asia. She serves as an Academic Expert for the Safety of Journalists Consortium and the Journalism Safety Research Network.

Education

• Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• Master of Arts in Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• Master of Advanced Studies in International and European Security, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
• Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Political Science, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA

Classes Taught

• COMJOUR 350 – News and Society
• COM 420 – New Communication Technologies
• COM 552 – Theories and Methods of Emerging Communication Technology

Research Interests

As a journalism studies scholar within the field of communication, Henrichsen examines (1) the ongoing erosion of democratic society amidst rising polarization, authoritarianism, and constitutional rot by assessing how malicious actors wield emerging technologies alongside analog methods to denigrate and disrupt journalistic work, safety, and well-being, and (2) how to strengthen trust in knowledge systems and institutions by enhancing journalists’ and news organizations’ abilities to meet the challenges, threats, and attacks facing them.

Her work has resulted in more than 30 publications, including three books and 12 peer-reviewed journal articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Digital Journalism and the International Journal of Communication. Her books include War on Words: Who Should Protect Journalists? (Praeger, 2011), Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State (Columbia University Press, 2017), and National Security, Journalism, and Law in an Age of Information Warfare (Oxford University Press, 2024)..

Awards

• Alumni Affiliate, Center for Media at Risk, University of Pennsylvania 2024 – Present
• Affiliated Fellow, Media, Inequality and Change Center, University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers 2023–Present
• Affiliated Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School 2021–Present
• Fellow, Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, Florida International University 2022–2023
• Gressly-Fleck Visiting Scholar, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2021–2023
• Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School 2020–2021
• Graduate Associate, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania 2020–2021
• Knight News Innovation Fellow, Tow Center for Digital Journalism 2018–2019
• Top Student Paper Award, International Communication Association, Journalism Studies Division 2019
• Emerging Scholar Fellow, Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy 2016
• Contracted Researcher and Author, UNESCO 2013–2014
• Fulbright Research Fellow to Switzerland, U.S. Department of State 2008–2009

Selected Publications

Books

• Ambinder, M., Henrichsen, J.R., & Rosati, C. (Eds.). (2024). National Security, Journalism, and Law in the Age of Information Warfare. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Bell, E., & Owen, T. (Eds.) (with Khorana, S., & Henrichsen, J.R.). (2017). Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
• Lisosky, J. M., & Henrichsen, J.R. (2011). War on Words: Who Should Protect Journalists? Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Chambers, E.*, & Henrichsen, J. R. (2025). Complicity and revictimization: Discursive violence in Mexican and U.S. press coverage of Mexican journalist killings. Journalism Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2492731 [1-yr IF: 2.8]
• Perreault, G., Bélair-Gagnon, V., & Henrichsen, J. R. (2025). Disruptions in normalization: Reflexive monitoring in journalism adaptation and audience collaboration. Journalism Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2462548 [1-yr IF: 2.8]
• Chambers, E.*, & Henrichsen, J. R. (2025). Confronting anti-press violence against journalists in Mexico: Strategies of resistance in Mexican and U.S. news coverage of journalist killings. International Journal of Communication. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22362/4879 [1-yr IF: 1.9]
• Henrichsen, J. R. (2023). When distancing fails—How journalists’ discursive and mnemonic techniques facilitated the rise of Trump and Trumpism. International Journal of Communication, 17, 1–19. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19842/4198 [1-yr IF: 1.7]
• Henrichsen, J. R., & Shelton, M. (2023). Boundaries, barriers, and champions: Understanding digital security education in U.S. journalism programs. Journalism Studies, 24(3), 309–328. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2022.2148267 [1-yr IF: 3.604]
• Henrichsen, J. R., & Shelton, M. (2023). Expanding the analytical boundaries of mob censorship: How technology and infrastructure enable novel threats to journalists and strategies for mitigation. Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2112520 [1-yr IF: 6.847]
• Henrichsen, J. R. (2022). Reconceptualizing Indigenous journalism through boundaries, small worlds, and information poverty. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 6(3), 1–17. https://www.journalofglobalindigeneity.com/article/39723-reconceptualizing-indigenous-journalism-through-boundaries-small-worlds-and-information-poverty [1-yr IF: N/A]
• Henrichsen, J. R. (2022). Understanding nascent newsroom security and safety cultures: The emergence of the “security champion.” Journalism Practice, 16(9), 1829–1848. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1927802 [1-yr IF: 2.328]
• Maris, E., Libert, T., & Henrichsen, J. R. (2020). Tracking sex: The implications of widespread sexual data leakage and tracking on porn websites. New Media & Society, 22(11), 2018–2038. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820924632 [1-yr IF: 5.0]
• Henrichsen, J. R. (2020). Journalists’ mnemonic techniques and the rise of Trumpism. Communication, Culture & Critique, 13(1), 125–129. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz052 [1-yr IF: 1.7]
• Henrichsen, J. R. (2020). Breaking through the ambivalence: Journalistic responses to information security technologies. Digital Journalism, 8(3), 328–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2019.1653207 [1-yr IF: 6.847]
• Lisosky, J. M., & Henrichsen, J. R. (2009). Don’t shoot the messenger: Protecting journalists in conflict situations. Media, War and Conflict, 2(2), 129–148. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635209104651 [1-yr IF: 1.3]