Matt Carlson

Matt Carlson is an associate professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Journalistic authority: Legitimating news in the digital Era (Columbia University Press, 2017) and On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism (University of Illinois Press, 2011), and co-editor with Seth C. Lewis of Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices, and Participation (Routledge, 2015). Carlson has published over fifty journal articles and book chapters on contemporary struggles to define journalism and news practices, including in the Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, and New Media & Society. He was previously chair of the Journalism Studies division of the International Communication Association.