Victor W. Pickard

Victor Pickard is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he taught media studies at NYU and the University of Virginia, and he worked on media policy in Washington, D.C. as a Senior Research Fellow at the media reform organization Free Press, the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, and Congresswoman Diane Watson's office. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the history and political economy of media institutions and media reform activism. His op-eds on media policy debates and the future of journalism have appeared in news outlets like The Guardian, Jacobin, The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Harvard Business Review, The Nation, and The Atlantic. He is the editor (with Robert McChesney) of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights, and the author of America's Battle for Media Democracy, After Net Neutrality (with David Berman), and Democracy without Journalism? He tweets at @VWPickard.