Nichola D. Gutgold is associate professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University-Lehigh Valley Campus. She is a visiting scholar at California State University at Chico, discussing her book Paving the Way for Madam President (Lexington Books, 2006). She is also author of Seen and Heard: The Women of Television News (Lexington Books, 2008) and is at work on a book about the presidential bid of Hillary Clinton.