Jennifer R. Henrichsen

Jennifer R. Henrichsen is an Assistant Professor at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University. She serves as Research Director for the Washington Local News Ecosystem Project and holds affiliations with Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, the University of Pennsylvania’s Media, Inequality & Change Center, and the VICEROY Northwest Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER). Henrichsen’s expertise spans journalism, cybersecurity, and democratic systems, with a focus on protecting knowledge institutions from technological threats.

• PhD, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• MA in Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• MA in International & European Security, University of Geneva
• BA in Communication and Political Science, Pacific Lutheran University

Her research examines:

• How emerging technologies and analog methods are used to erode democratic institutions through press attacks
• Strategies to strengthen trust in media via cybersecurity education and policy interventions
• Global journalism safety frameworks, including UNESCO reports and the Safety of Journalists Consortium

Henrichsen’s publications include three books (National Security, Journalism, and Law in an Age of Information Warfare [Oxford, 2024], Journalism After Snowden [Columbia, 2017], War on Words [Praeger, 2011]) and 12 peer-reviewed articles. Her work has been cited over 300 times by entities like the U.S. Government and UN.

Awarded 12 fellowships including the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Fulbright Research Scholar, and Knight Foundation grants, she has presented 80+ times globally. Henrichsen teaches courses on:

• COMJOUR 350 – News and Society
• COM 420 – New Communication Technologies
• COM 552 – Theories of Emerging Communication Technology

Her research is supported by $950,000+ in grant funding and featured in The New York Times, NPR, and Nieman Lab. Henrichsen leads initiatives on media security education and serves as Academic Expert for the Journalism Safety Research Network.