Kimberly Meltzer is a former journalist, having worked for news programs at CNN and NBC, and at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Discovery Communications, and Gazette Newspapers. Her areas of research and teaching include journalism studies, political communication, media technology, and popular culture. She has experience working on large-scale political communication and public policy grants, and presents and publishes her work regularly at national and international conferences, and in scholarly journals. She came to CCT from Lehigh University where she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication.

Professor Meltzer is available for comment on the following topics: television news anchors, historical trends in news, journalistic practices, journalism and politics, political communication, news coverage of elections and candidate endorsements.