Keren Henderson

Keren Henderson (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) first learned to tell audio-visual stories as a production assistant for Zoo Diaries in Toronto and as a celebrity wedding videographer and editor in Santa Barbara (two remarkably similar jobs). She translated her research and storytelling skills into a journalism career in local TV news producing and video editing before returning to academia to earn a Ph.D. in mass communication.

Henderson’s scholarly interests include the sociology of American newsrooms and the relationship between the business and the craft of making news. She is director of the annual RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University newsroom survey and associate editor of the Electronic News Journal. 

Henderson teaches undergraduate courses in broadcast and digital journalism and graduate courses in communications.

Recent publications: 

McKinnon-Crowley, J., Loong Lua, K., Crowston, K. G., & Henderson, K. (2026). “Is This News?”: How Audiences Recognize, Expect, and Evaluate Emerging News Genres in Short-Form Video Social Media. Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2026, 2726–2735. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/111722

Lysak, S., & Henderson, K. (2025). Conglomeration, Digital Disruption, and COVID-19: Upheaval-Driven Changes to the Roles of U.S. Local Television News Directors. Electronic News, 19(1), 41–63. https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431241293468

Jastrzebski, S., Henderson, K., McKinnon-Crowley, J., & Crowston, K. (2025). Boundaries of data journalism in U.S. public radio newsrooms. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849251324894

Mirabito, T., Henderson, K., & Papper, B. (2025). RTDNA 2025: Technology Helps Local Broadcasters Do More With Less. Electronic News. https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431251348938

Wang, S., Menon, S., Long, T., Henderson, K., Li, D., Crowston, K., Hansen, M., Nickerson, J. V., & Chilton, L. B. (2024). ReelFramer: Human-AI Co-Creation for News-to-Video Translation. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642868

Crowston, K., Henderson, K., Lua, K. L., & Raheja, R. (2024). Implications for Hybrid Newswork from the Work-from-Home Activities of Local US Television Journalists During COVID. Journalism Practice, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2344643

Henderson, K., & Chock, T. M. (2023). Could cutting costs mean changing minds? Effects of local television news work routines on viewer attention, information-processing, and perceptions of story importance. Journalism, 24(5), 999–1014. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211036285

Petridis, S., Diakopoulos, N., Crowston, K., Hansen, M., Henderson, K., Jastrzebski, S., Nickerson, J. V., & Chilton, L. B. (2023). AngleKindling: Supporting Journalistic Angle Ideation with Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580907

Papper, B., & Henderson, K. (2023). 2022—A Challenging Year in Local TV News. Electronic News, 17(3), 139–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431231181925

Henderson, K. (2022). Marketing the construction of reality: Multiplatform production routines and the renegotiation of journalistic role identities in a legacy local television newsroom. Journalism, 23(4), 929–945. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920940940

Henderson, K., Raheja, R., & Crowston, K. (2022). Communicating with the masses from isolation: What happened when local television journalists worked from home. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2022.858