Ann Brill

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Ann Brill is the Dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas.

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Brill focuses her research work on how journalists are affected by the changes in media technology. Through her research, she has found that the developments in media technology have forced journalists to become adaptive and flexible in the ways that they work in turn causing them to be lifelong learners. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Ann Brill | William Allen White". The University of Kansas. Retrieved 15 May 2013.