Educational Background
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
Bio
Accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and a member of the College of Fellows, Dr. Newsom is the co-author of three textbooks, co-editor of a women's studies book, and the author of 12 book chapters. In 1996, she won the Texas Public Relations Association's Golden Spur Award for personal achievement in the field, and the National Headliner Award from the Association of Women In Communication.
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. Since 1982, Dr. Newsom has served on the Board of Directors of ONEOK, a diversified energy company listed on the NYSE.
Dr. Newsom has been president of the Texas Public Relations Association, North Texas Chapter of PRSA and the Greater Fort Worth Chapter of PRSA, the Southwest Education Council for Journalism/Mass Communication, Fort Worth professional Chapter of Women in Communications, Inc., and head of the PR Division of AEJMC. She is a co-founder of the minorities division of AEJMC. She is a charter life member of the Public Relations Foundation of Texas and is listed in Who's Who in Public Relations.
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 in 1988, she also has done workshops in South Africa, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Vanuatu and India (after the Fulbright experience which included workshops all over the country.) During the spring semester of 1999, Dr. Newsom was a Fulbright lecturer in Singapore.
