Office: Gaylord 2536
Email: d.hill@ou.edu
Education:
PH.D, University of Oklahoma
BA, University of Oklahoma
Desiree Hill, Ph.D., is Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma. In this role she is involved with leadership, student affairs, recruiting, and oversight of the award-winning OU Nightly.
Desiree received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma with a concentration on journalism, media management, and journalists and trauma. For more than a decade she taught journalism with an emphasis on video news at the University of Central Oklahoma. She is also a veteran television news executive and has added documentary and feature filmmaking to her areas of interest.
Her journalism-focused trauma research has concentrated on multiple areas, including the Oklahoma City bombing, managers and trauma, and educators and trauma. Her work has been published in industry and scholarly publications, including the International Journal on Media Management and the Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Desiree has won top paper awards from the BEA and AEJMC, and top newscast awards from the Associated Press and Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters. She is the North American leader of the international Journalism Education Trauma Research Group (JETREG) and a Fulbright Specialist for broadcast television management.
Desiree’s news experience includes varied roles in broadcast journalism leadership including as Executive Producer for KOCO and KWTV in Oklahoma City, Vice-President of News for Pappas Telecasting, where she managed eight newsrooms and 200+ employees, and Senior Strategist for AR&D (a consulting firm for television stations across the US). Desiree also continues to work in newsrooms and consult with stations across the country and around the world, most recently with KWTV (2022) and CTV Toronto (2016).
In the documentary realm she was Associate Producer for N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear which premiered at Sundance and aired as part of the PBS American Masters series in fall of 2019. The film won several awards, including “Best Oklahoma Feature” at the deadCenter festival and was nominated for a national Emmy award as part of the American Masters series. She also served as Associate Producer on Ghosts, a short film based on the true story of Kiowa boys who escaped from a punishing boarding school.
