Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston. She got her PhD at the Indiana University School of Journalism, concentrating on political and international communication. A big portion of her scholarly work examines journalists access to information and Freedom of Information laws from a global perspective. Her scholarly work has been awarded by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and published at the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Press/Politics, Mass Communication and Society, International Journal of Communication, International Communication Gazzete, Government Information Quarterly, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, etc. Her published research has used survey data, governmental data, data from Global non-governmental organization (United Nations, World health Organization, etc) and social media data (Facebook and Twitter).