Rebecca Theim

Rebecca Theim began teaching at the University of Maryland in the fall of 2021, and previously was as an adjunct instructor at four colleges and universities in Louisiana, Ohio, and Nevada. She has managed communications for several entities, including publicly traded and privately held companies, professional organizations, and an international philanthropy.

She now works as a communications manager with The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. She began her career in daily journalism, working at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. Her work has been recognized nationally and regionally by the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Society of America, the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and leading industry trade organizations Ragan Communications and PR News.

Theim is the author of the nationally award-winning Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which examined the collapse of the national newspaper industry through the prism of wrenching changes at that city’s beloved 175- year-old newspaper.

Theim holds bachelor's and graduate degrees from Northwestern University, in journalism and integrated marketing communications, respectively, and a second graduate degree from The Ohio State University, in journalism, where she was a fellow in the Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting endowed by the Kiplinger financial media family.