Victor Pickard is the C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change (MIC) Center. Previously he taught at NYU and the University of Virginia and held visiting appointments at Cornell, Goldsmiths, and LSE. Prior to his academic positions, he worked on media policy in Washington, D.C. as a Senior Research Fellow at the think tank New America and as a Policy Fellow for Congresswoman Diane Watson. Pickard’s research on media history, media activism, and media’s normative role in democratic societies has been published in more than 150 articles, essays, and book chapters. He has authored or edited six books, including the award-winning monographs America’s Battle for Media Democracy and Democracy Without Journalism? Pickard chairs the board of directors for the media reform organization Free Press and serves as a judge for the annual Izzy Awards for independent journalism. He often writes for popular venues such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Jacobin, and The Nation, and is frequently interviewed about his research in leading news organizations such as NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.