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About the Authors

Janis Teruggi Page is a faculty member in the Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, and has been affiliated with the Strategic Public Relations Master’s Program, George Washington University, for more than a decade. She has taught visual communication courses throughout her academic career. As a Fulbright distinguished chair, in 2018 she researched intercultural visual communication and taught visual literacy at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. An award‐winning author, her research includes “Images with Messages: A Semiotic Approach to Identifying and Decoding Strategic Visual Communication,” published in the Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication (2015), and “Trump as Global Spectacle: The Visual Rhetoric of Magazine Covers,” published in the Handbook of Visual Communication (2020). She is also coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Public Relations: Strategic, Digital, and Socially Responsible Communication (2019, 2021) with Lawrence J. Parnell. Prior to joining academia, she had a 20‐year career as creative and marketing director for various US media companies. A former student at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, she holds a PhD from the Missouri School of Journalism with a secondary emphasis in art history.

Margaret Duffy is Professor of Strategic Communication and cofounder and executive director of the Novak Leadership Institute. She led the effort to obtain a $21.6 million gift to endow the Institute from David Novak, alumnus of the Missouri School of Journalism advertising program. Mr. Novak is the retired CEO of YUM! Brands (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC) and credits his education in advertising as the catalyst for his leadership success. Until 2016, Dr. Duffy chaired the Strategic Communication Faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism. She also served as associate dean for graduate studies. Dr. Duffy directed the Missouri School of Journalism's Online Master’s Program from 2001 to 2016. An award‐winning scholar, her research focuses on leadership, organizational communication, visual communication, and persuasion ethics. She coedited the book Persuasion Ethics Today (2016) and cowrote Advertising Age: The Principles of Advertising and Marketing Communication at Work (2011), Dr. Duffy is a founding board member of the Institute for Advertising Ethics and an inaugural fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. In 2019, she received the University of Missouri Distinguished Faculty Award. She is a former marketing executive and earned her PhD from the University of Iowa. An author and consultant, Dr. Duffy conducts research and advises media companies and brands around the world with clients as varied as Estée Lauder and the US Army.