Debra (Debbie) Reddin van Tuyll is professor emerita at Augusta University. She is presently working on a study of the Irish American press and its antecedents from colonial times through 1845. She is the co-editor of Politics, Culture and the Irish American Press, 1784-1963, which was a finalist for the 2021 Tankard Award for the best book in journalism given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Her previous work has focused on journalism during the American Civil War.