Lauren D Furey
Associate Professor, Communication, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Faculty Bio
Lauren Furey (Ph.D., University of Florida) is an Associate Professor of Communication in the Communication Department. She teached in the multimedia journalism option, advises The Poly Post student newspaper and Bronco Guide magazine, as well as co-leads a Media and Politics Research Team with undergraduate students. Outside of teaching, she researches the portrayal of women in politics by the news media and in popular culture and co-hosts a podcast featuring interviews with women politicians called The Pink State.
Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Furey worked as a journalist and has published in newspapers like the Jacksonville Business Journal, The Florida Times-Union, Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Daily News Egypt, Daily Star Egypt, and Pakistan Christian Post. She also wrote for New York Times and Wall Street Journal editors and columnists while completing her master's in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She received her B.A. in communications, with a concentration in journalism, from the University of North Florida.
Sample Publications
Horowitz, N., Peterson, H., & Furey, L. D. (2024). Exploring the media discourse of Neurodiversity and Neurodivergent individuals: A step toward discovering possibilities for all people. Western Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2395314 *This paper features a Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate student co-author.
Furey, L. D., Turcotte, J., Sorrell, J., Urbina, N., Frisan, E., & Corrales, N. (2023). Miss(ing) representation: Examining how race shaped news coverage of missing women surrounding Gabby Petito's disappearance. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2259378 *This paper features four Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate student co-authors.
Hall, A. E., Furey, L. D., & Muttram, L. (2023). The rise of #GirlDad in a #BoyMom world: Exploring Instagram's role in influencing performative parenthood. Journal of Social Media in Society, 12(1), 235-256. *This paper features a Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate student co-author.
Turcotte, J., Furey, L. D., Garcia-Ortega, J. M., Hernandez, N., Siccion, C., & Stephenson, E. (2021). The novelty news narrative: How social identity influences policy attention of minority political candidates. Newspaper Research Journal, 41(1), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739532921990146 *This paper features four Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate student co-authors and won best article of the issue by Newspaper Research Journal.
Furey, L .D., Cho, M., & Mohr, T. (2019). Is business news starting to bark? How business news covers corporate social responsibility post the economic crisis. Journalism, 20(2), 256-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884917731180
Mohr, T. L., & Furey, L. D. (2018). Advancing agenda-building: Exploring causal relationships. The Agenda Setting Journal, 2(1), 84-103. https://doi.org/10.1075/asj.17008moh
Cho, M., Furey, L. D., & Schweickart, T. L. (2016). Communicating CSR on social media: Strategies, stakeholders, and public engagement on corporate Facebook. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 80(1), 52-69. http://doi.org/10.1177/2329490616663708