Interview with Frank Russell on Twitter Use in a Large Media Market

By: Leah Martinez, Jenna Mcmanus, Kaylah Vasquez, and Lisset Ramirez Agustin

April 7, 2025

Professor Frank Russell, Courtesy of the CSUF Communications Department

We conducted our scholarly interview with Professor Russell, an associate journalism professor at CSUF. Professor Russell has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s in mass communication from San Jose State University. He completed his Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri. With over 15 years of experience in journalism, Professor Russell has worked at numerous publications such as The Seattle Times and Los Angeles Daily News, working in various parts of the journalism industry, including management, editing, writing, and page design. As a professor here at Fullerton, Professor Russell teaches classes focusing on news reporting and serves as the news adviser for the school newspaper, Daily Titan. Majority of his research focuses on media sociology, media ethics, and social media within the career of journalism. For our interview, we discussed his 2023 research paper “#BREAKING Twitter use in a large media market.”

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