Dr. McIntyre is an associate professor of multimedia journalism and director of graduate studies at the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University.

As a scholar, her international and interdisciplinary research focuses on journalism processes and effects. More specifically, she studies socially responsible forms of journalism, such as constructive journalism and solutions journalism. She also studies press freedom and journalism practice in East Africa and served as a Fulbright scholar in Rwanda during the 2018-19 academic year.

As an educator, she teaches undergraduate and graduate journalism classes including Journalism Writing, Multiplatform Storytelling, Media Law and Ethics, and Solutions Journalism.

As a journalist, she has experience as a reporter, writer, copy editor, website designer and developer, producer, photographer and videographer with an understanding of social media and interactive graphics.