Carolyn Johnsen joined the news-editorial faculty in July 2004. Among other things, she taught science writing and depth reporting.
For ten years before coming to the college, Johnsen reported on agriculture and the environment for the Nebraska Public Radio Network (now NET Radio). Her stories were also broadcast on National Public Radio, the BBC and Monitor Radio. Her work has received national and regional honors, including awards for writing and for environmental, investigative, feature and documentary reporting.
In 2001, she received a major grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to support research for her book "Raising A Stink: the Struggle Over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska," published in 2003 by the University of Nebraska Press.
Johnsen has also worked as a writing coach. Her clients included the Associated Press, Lee Newspapers and newspaper associations in Nebraska and Wisconsin as well as scientists, engineers, lawyers, judges and hundreds of public employees. In 1983-84, Johnsen was a Fulbright teacher in England. She has a bachelors degree in education and a masters in English--both from UNL.