Betsi Grabe taught in the School of Journalism at Indiana University since 1996 and moved to the Department of Telecommunications in the fall of 2006.  She does experimental research on information processing of television news, looking at how news packaging affects memory for news information and in particular, how social class and gender interact with dimensions of news construction to influence comprehension of news. Grabe also studies the content of crime narratives in news from a functionalist perspective.  She was born and raised in South Africa where she worked as a television news documentary producer during the State of Emergency in the mid-1980s. She has been a member of ICA for the past 10 years.