Communication, Media & Theatre Arts

Biography

Christine Uthoff is an editor, reporter, columnist and digital content director whose experiences include work at newspapers and television stations in six states. A native of Missouri, she earned a Bachelor of Journalism degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her professional work roles include a focus on the evolution of digital journalism, from early opportunities to access federal court records through a computer (a system now known as PACER) to the use of databases in reporting news and the development of websites and social media platforms as both reporting tools and news distribution products. She has been serving as a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University and advisor of The Eastern Echo and Cellar Roots since 2020. 

Education

• BJ: Bachelor of Journalism with an emphasis in magazines and a minor in business; University of Missouri-Columbia, 1983
• Knight Center Fellow “America by the Numbers,” on covering the Census, April 1990
• Indiana University National Institute for Advanced Reporting: Conference on Computer Assisted Journalism
• National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting, Missouri School of Journalism

Courses

• JRNL 215 News Reporting and Writing
• JRNL 306W Feature Writing
• JRNL 307 Copyediting
• JRNL 310 Digital Journalism

Advising

• The Eastern Echo, the student-operated news organization that serves both the university and the Ypsilanti community.
• Cellar Roots, the student literary magazine that annually publishes and exhibits the work of Eastern Michigan University students.

Grants, Honors and Awards

• Editor, “Bristol Magazine Where Two Cities Become One,” a quarterly publication of The Bristol Herald Courier. Served during the launch and publication of the first four editions, 2015-2016 (The magazine won the History in Media award from the East Tennessee Historical Society.)
• Editorial- and column-writing awards from the Tennessee Press Association and the Virginia Press Association in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Other honors in column writing and reporting awarded while working in Montana and Mississippi.
• Participated in the editing team at the Bristol Herald Courier on a project on coalbed methane gas royalties that won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
• Paul Harris Fellow in 2003 by fellow Rotarians in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and again in 2013 in Bristol, Virginia. Named a 2013-14 William E. Skelton Fellow of Rotary District 7570, for work promoting world understanding and peace through education.