Kathleen A. Hansen is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. She is co-author (with Nora Paul) of a leading text in information-gathering, Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators (Allyn & Bacon, 2004) and of Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age with Shannon E. Martin (Praeger, 1998).

As Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center since 1997, Hansen has organized numerous professional-development workshops for journalists and news librarians in the U.S. and internationally. Hansen’s work has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Newspaper Research Journal, Editor and Publisher, Library Journal and other scholarly and professional publications. She serves on a number of professional boards and as adviser for the University’s Society of Professional Journalists student chapter.