Amy Schmitz Weiss

Professor, San Diego State University

Amy Schmitz Weiss is a professor in the School of Journalism & Media Studies at San Diego State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Her research interests include spatial journalism, online journalism, media sociology, news production, multimedia journalism and international communication. She has received multiple internal and external grants for her research in digital journalism innovation from AEJMC, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Online News Association, SDSU University Grants Program and the SDSU’s Projects for the Public Good. Her research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, in book chapters and in a book she co-edited. She teaches journalism courses in basic writing and editing, multimedia, web design, data journalism, mobile journalism, sensor journalism, media entrepreneurship and spatial journalism.