Dr. Doug Newsom teaches at Texas Christian University, is a public relations practitioner and has served on the board of a publicly-held company since 1982. She is the senior co-author of Public Relations Writing: Form and Style (with the late Bob Carrell and now Jim Haynes, 2004), This Is PR (with Judy VanSlyke Turk and Dean Kruckeberg, 1999), and Media Writing (with the late James Wollert, 1988).