Victor Pickard is a professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is also the co-director of the university’s Media, Inequality and Change center. He has been writing about the crisis facing journalism for over a decade and recently published a book titled, “Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.” Along with his colleague Timothy Neff, Victor recently published an article in the Columbia Journalism Review about the lack of funding the American government has traditionally offered publicly funded media (the topic of this episode). Victor previously taught at NYU and the University of Virginia, and has worked in Washington D.C. for various media reform organizations and think tanks.
Victor offered a shoutout to the Independent Media Center, a global network of activist journalists that launched in 1999. Their slogan is: "Don't Hate the Media, Become the Media!" (Their website is currently under construction. You can follow them on Twitter here.)
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