Taeyoung Lee

Biography

Dr. Taeyoung Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Media School at Indiana University. Her research program broadly centers on journalism and mediated political communication in a rapidly evolving media environment. Specifically, her scholarship investigates how the platform-centric media landscape and technology-driven information ecosystem reshape individuals’ engagement with news and information, as well as the role of journalistic institutions in democratic societies. She also examines how these individual- and institutional-level shifts undermine democratic values, from cultivating an accurately informed citizenry to sustaining public trust in the press worldwide, in relation to mis-/disinformation.

Lee’s scholarship has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Mass Communication and Society, and New Media & Society, among others. Her research has been recognized with awards such as the AEJMC Research Prize for Professional Relevance and the Mass Communication Division’s research awards. (for a full list of publications, see Google Scholar.)

Lee received her Ph.D. in Journalism and Media from The University of Texas at Austin in 2023 and worked as an Assistant Professor in the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston from 2023 to 2025. She received her MA degree from the Media School in 2018. Prior to starting her career in academia, she worked as a professional journalist at a national newspaper in South Korea, where her reporting earned national recognition.