Dr. Ruth Palmeris Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at IE University in Madrid and Segovia, Spain. Her research explores how non-journalists think about and relate to the news media. Her 2018 book Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight (Columbia University Press) investigated how citizens navigate their interactions with journalists and experience being named in news stories. The book was a finalist for the Tankard Book Award given by the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Her most recent book is Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism, co-authored with Benjamin Toff and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and published by Columbia University Press.