Victoria L. LaPoe, Ph.D.
Victoria L. LaPoe, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist and scholar whose research focuses on media sourcing, digital media and public relations. She was elected to the Public Relations Society of America Educators Academy Executive Committee in 2026 after serving in programming leadership in 2025. PRSA is a national organization representing close to 20,000 members. In addition, Dr. LaPoe was selected for a two-year term on the inaugural editorial board of the Diné College Press on the Navajo Nation, based in Arizona and New Mexico.
LaPoe joined the University of Cincinnati in fall 2025. Prior to UC, she was a full professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University (2017–2025), where she taught courses in both news and strategic communication, advised a first-place-winning Public Relations Student Society of America chapter, chaired the school’s contest committee with multiple student placements in Hearst and SPJ competitions and served as director of studies in journalism for the Honors Tutorial College (2020–2024). She was named an overall outstanding university professor in spring 2025.
Earlier in her academic career, Dr. LaPoe taught broadcasting at Western Kentucky University, where she was promoted to overall coordinator for the broadcasting and film sequence (2014–2017), overseeing 500 of 700 students.