[2] She earned an undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from Brandeis University in 1964.
[2] Tuchman was an assistant professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1969 to 1972.
[4] Tuchman is mostly known for her book Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality that applies the concepts of social constructivism and framing in a qualitative study of media production in New York City.
In her perspective, the self-legitimation of media through the usage of visual codes, narrative and visual conventions through which they "radiate an aura of representation" [5]: 109 , but at the same time add to legitimizing dominant institutions and individuals, and the media's self-perception as committed to claims of objectivity, are important parts of this process, as well as scandalization as active management of social controversies to attract attention.
Tuchman has also studied the role of gender in cultural and media production[7][8][9] Since the 1990s, Tuchman has been mainly active in the sociologies of culture (including media), gender, and higher education, using ethnographic methods and occasionally historical methods in sociology.