Lindsey A. Sherrill's research delves into the ethics of true crime media.
Why you should listen
Lindsey A. Sherrill is an assistant professor of business communication at the University of North Alabama. Before academia, she spent ten years in the wholesale nursery business in Alabama and Georgia and three years covering sports and local events for the Atmore Advance, a small-town paper in south Alabama. She's always been fascinated with true crime and has translated that fandom to research, including her dissertation, which won the 2020 University of Alabama Communication & Information Sciences Outstanding Dissertation award.Sherrill's research in true crime media as well as journalism and political communication has been presented at multiple national and international conferences and has been published in notable outlets such as Journalism Practice, Communication Theory, Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcast & Electronic Media and Mass Communication and Society. She is the author of Entertainment, Journalism, and Advocacy: Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem (2023).
