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Indira S. Somani

Indira S. Somani, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Journalism with Washington and Lee University. She brings ten years of broadcast journalism experience as a news producer to the classroom.  She has been a writer and producer of financial broadcasts for CNBC, and a senior producer for "Early Today," an NBC network newscast.  She has also been a show and field producer for WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., where she won the prestigious Gracie Allen Award for the "Working Woman" portrait series.  She has been a leader of the South Asian Journalists Association, where she has also won several "Outstanding" awards on her coverage of South Asians in North America.  Somani has also produced content for dot com sites and documentaries.  In an academia, Somani was an Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism with American University's School of Communication.  Somani earned her Master of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.  She earned her doctorate from the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, where she also taught Broadcast News Producing, and was a teaching assistant for Media Literacy.  Her dissertation studied the effect of satellite television on the Asian Indian community in the United States.  At Washington and Lee she teaches Broadcast Producing, Broadcast Reporting, Media, Race and Gender and Cross-cultural Documentary Filmmaking.