Peggy Watt

Associate Professor of Journalism, Western Washington University

516 High St., MS 9161
Bellingham, WA 98225
peggy.watt@wwu.edu
chss.wwu.edu/journalism

Peggy Watt is an associate professor of journalism at Western Washington University. She has degrees in journalism and political science from Western, and worked as a reporter at several newspapers in the Pacific Northwest before moving to California, where she covered Silicon Valley for business and technology publications for about 20 years. After joining the faculty at Western, she remained a contributing editor to PC World magazine, where she previously was online news editor.

Ms. Watt completed a master’s degree at Stanford University with a thesis on traditional journalism’s role in new media. She is a longtime member of the Society of Professional Journalists as well as the Journalism Education Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.