Andie Tucher

Andie Tucher is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor and the Director of the Communications Ph.D. Program at the Columbia Journalism School. She is also the author of Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium (1994); Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American Family (2014); and other academic and popular works on the evolution of truth-telling conventions in photography, personal narrative, history, and other nonfiction forms. Tucher previously worked in documentary production at ABC News and Public Affairs Television. She holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from New York University.