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Carol Schwalbe University of Arizona
Carol Schwalbe is a tenured associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona, where she teaches editing. From 2002 until 2010 she taught editing, magazine writing and online journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Her scholarly research focuses on the role of images in shaping ideas and public opinion during the early years of the Cold War, ethical concerns about publishing violent images and the visual framing of the Iraq War on the Internet. Carol's professional writing has appeared in National Geographic publications.
Carol came to Arizona in 2002 from National Geographic magazine in Washington, D.C., where she was a senior articles editor. She planned the coverage, selected writers, negotiated contracts and edited text for up to 20 feature stories a year. Before that, she was a senior articles editor for National Geographic Traveler, a member of the launch team for nationalgeographic.com and the online producer for the Traveler section of the National Geographic Web site. She also produced "The River Wild," an award-winning online site. In her early days at the Geographic, Carol was an editor-writer in the book division.