She studies global media from a qualitative perspective, especially focusing on the cultural labor of conflict correspondents in the digital age. Though Palmer looks at numerous questions inspired by conflict reporting in the 21st century—questions of translation, representation, and political domination, just to name a few—she is particularly interested in the economic and political structures that inform news organizations’ policies on their correspondents’ safety in the field. Palmer is currently working on a book that explores this complicated topic, entitled Becoming the Story: War Correspondents after 9/11 (University of Illinois Press, 2017).