Laura Moorhead

Laura Moorhead is a professor in the Department of Journalism at San Francisco State University and a researcher with the ScholCommLab at Simon Fraser University. A former contributing editor at PBS/Frontline World and senior editor at Wired, her scholarship examines the tensions between journalistic practices and ideals, with a particular focus on whose stories are elevated, whose voices are marginalized, and how journalists report on complex social issues.

Her work explores media representations of homelessness, housing insecurity, health information, and scientific research, as well as broader questions of information equity and access to knowledge. She served as co-principal investigator on the Narratives and Medical Education (NAME) Project, an NIH-funded initiative examining how narrative approaches can support more equitable health care for marginalized communities. She also helped lead a Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM)-funded project focused on improving access to trustworthy health information.

In addition to her research, Moorhead serves on the council of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and on the board of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ NorCal). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University.

Research publications and citations can be found at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Ai3ta8AAAAJ&hl=en