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'''Victor Pickard''' |
'''Victor Pickard''' is an American media studies scholar. He is a professor at the [[Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania]]. He works on the intersections of U.S. and global media activism and politics; the history and political economy of media institutions; and the normative foundations of [[media policy]]. |
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==Background and |
==Background and education== |
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Pickard was born |
Pickard was born in [[Sewickley, Pennsylvania]], near Pittsburgh, and attended [[Quaker Valley High School]] and then [[Allegheny College]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} He earned a master's degree in communications from the [[University of Washington]] and, in 2008, a Ph.D. at the Institute of Communications Research at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]], with a thesis "Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945-1949."{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} |
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==Academic |
==Academic career and policy work== |
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Before teaching at Penn, Pickard was an assistant professor in the Media, Culture, and Communication Department at New York University. |
Before teaching at Penn, Pickard was an assistant professor in the Media, Culture, and Communication Department at [[New York University]]. Pickard also designed and taught the inaugural Verklin media policy course at the University of Virginia. In D.C., he worked on media policy as a senior research fellow at the media reform organization [[Free Press (organization)|Free Press]] and the public policy think tank the [[New America Foundation]]. He was the first full-time researcher at New America's [[Open Technology Institute]], where he continues to be a senior research fellow. {{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}He also served as a media policy fellow for Congresswoman [[Diane Watson]] and spent a summer conducting research as a Google Policy Fellow.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} |
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Pickard's research has received a number of grants and awards from national and international associations, including the National Communication Association, the International Communication Association, the Association of Internet Researchers, and the Yale Information Society Project's Access to Knowledge Conference. He received the Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for "Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945-1949", which focuses on postwar media policy debates and reform efforts. This research forms the basis of his book on the history and future of news media (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). |
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==Scholarship== |
==Scholarship== |
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In 2009, |
In 2009, Pickard was the lead author of a comprehensive report on the American journalism crisis, "Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy" (Published by Free Press). The report documented the roots of the crisis, potential alternative models, and policy recommendations for implementing structural reform in the American media system. The report was described as “the most intelligent and comprehensive proposed solution to the crisis in journalism"<ref>{{cite web|last=Pearson|first=Sarah Hinchliff|title=How to Save Journalism|url=http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6190|accessdate=6 August 2012}}</ref> and listed as one of “2009’s Most Influential Media About Media.”<ref>{{cite web|last=Bracken|first=John|title=2009′s Most Influential Media About Media|url=http://bracken.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/2009s-most-influential-media-about-media/|accessdate=6 August 2012}}</ref> |
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In 2011 Pickard co-edited the book ''Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It'' |
In 2011 Pickard co-edited with [[Robert W. McChesney|Robert McChesney]] the book ''Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It'' . The book provides an analysis of the shifting news media landscape and maps the ongoing debates about journalism's uncertain future. Booklist called it “Bold, meditative, engrossing, this is an indispensable guide for followers of modern media.” A review in Library Journal described it as highlighting "journalism's role as a crucial component of democracy and an institution that needs to be reinvigorated ... anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book."<ref>{{cite web|title=Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights|url=http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1808|accessdate=6 August 2012}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source does not cover the material cited.|date=August 2023}} |
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Pickard's 2014 Book, ''America's Battle for Media Democracy'', explores the history of the contemporary American media system came to be.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} |
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Pickard's 2014 Book, ''America's Battle for Media Democracy'', explores how the contemporary American media system came to be. The book explores why the United States has fewer public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations, how a handful of corporations came to control media, and why structural problems like market failures are routinely avoided in media policy discourse. Pickard draws from extensive archival research to uncover the American media system’s historical roots and normative foundations and charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. Furthermore, the book draws from lessons of the past to provide insight on policies for capturing the democratic potential of the Internet. |
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==Publications== |
==Publications== |
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===Books=== |
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* Robert McChesney & Victor Pickard, eds. (2011). ''Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It''. New York: The New Press. |
* Robert McChesney & Victor Pickard, eds. (2011). ''Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It''. New York: The New Press. |
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*Victor Pickard (2020). ''Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pickard|first=Victor|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/10.1093/oso/9780190946753.001.0001/oso-9780190946753|title=Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society|date=2020|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-094675-3|location=New York|doi=10.1093/oso/9780190946753.001.0001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Democracy Without Journalism? Q&A with Victor Pickard|url=https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/democracy-without-journalism-qa-victor-pickard|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.asc.upenn.edu|date=25 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref> New York, NY: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780190946753}} |
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===Reports=== |
===Reports=== |
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*Victor Pickard, Josh Stearns & Craig Aaron (2009). “Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy,” Free Press, Washington, D.C. |
*Victor Pickard, Josh Stearns & Craig Aaron (2009). “Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy,” Free Press, Washington, D.C. |
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*Victor Pickard (2012). The Air Belongs to the People: The Rise and Fall of a Postwar Radio Reform Movement, Critical Studies in Media Communication. |
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*Victor Pickard (2011). Can Government Support the Press? Historicizing and Internationalizing a Policy Approach to the Journalism Crisis. The Communication Review, 14 (2) 73 – 95. |
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*Victor Pickard (2011). The Battle over the FCC Blue Book: Determining the Role of Broadcast Media in a Democratic Society, 1945-1948. Media, Culture & Society 33 (2) 171–191. |
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*Victor Pickard (2011). First They Came for Everyone: The Assault on Civil Society Is an Injury to All. International Journal of Communication, 5, 1820-1826. |
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*Victor Pickard & Josh Stearns (2011). New Models Emerge For Community Press. Newspaper Research Journal 32, 1, 46-62. |
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*[[Sascha Meinrath]], [[James Losey]] & Victor Pickard (2011). [[Digital Feudalism]]: Enclosures and Erasures from Digital Rights Management to the Digital Divide. CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy, 423-479. |
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*Victor Pickard (2010). Whether the Giants Should Be Slain or Persuaded to Be Good: Revisiting the Hutchins Commission and the Role of Media in a Democratic Society. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 27, 4, 391-411. |
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*Victor Pickard & Sascha Meinrath (2009). Revitalizing the Public Airwaves: Opportunistic Unlicensed Reuse of Government Spectrum. International Journal of Communication, 3, 1052-1084. |
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*Victor Pickard (2007). Neoliberal Visions and Revisions in Global Communications Policy from NWICO to WSIS. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 31 (2), 118-139. |
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*Victor Pickard (2006). United yet Autonomous: Indymedia and the Struggle to Sustain a Radical Democratic Network. Media Culture & Society, 28 (3), 315-336. |
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*W. Lance Bennett, Victor Pickard, David Iozzi, Carl Schroeder, Taso Lagos, and Courtney Evans-Caswell (2004). Managing the Public Sphere: Journalistic Construction of the Great Globalization Debate. Journal of Communication, 54, 437-455. |
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Victor Pickard is an American media studies scholar. He is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on the intersections of U.S. and global media activism and politics; the history and political economy of media institutions; and the normative foundations of media policy.
Background and education
Pickard was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and attended Quaker Valley High School and then Allegheny College.[citation needed] He earned a master's degree in communications from the University of Washington and, in 2008, a Ph.D. at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, with a thesis "Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945-1949."[citation needed]
Academic career and policy work
Before teaching at Penn, Pickard was an assistant professor in the Media, Culture, and Communication Department at New York University. Pickard also designed and taught the inaugural Verklin media policy course at the University of Virginia. In D.C., he worked on media policy as a senior research fellow at the media reform organization Free Press and the public policy think tank the New America Foundation. He was the first full-time researcher at New America's Open Technology Institute, where he continues to be a senior research fellow. [citation needed]He also served as a media policy fellow for Congresswoman Diane Watson and spent a summer conducting research as a Google Policy Fellow.[citation needed]
Scholarship
In 2009, Pickard was the lead author of a comprehensive report on the American journalism crisis, "Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy" (Published by Free Press). The report documented the roots of the crisis, potential alternative models, and policy recommendations for implementing structural reform in the American media system. The report was described as “the most intelligent and comprehensive proposed solution to the crisis in journalism"[1] and listed as one of “2009’s Most Influential Media About Media.”[2]
In 2011 Pickard co-edited with Robert McChesney the book Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It . The book provides an analysis of the shifting news media landscape and maps the ongoing debates about journalism's uncertain future. Booklist called it “Bold, meditative, engrossing, this is an indispensable guide for followers of modern media.” A review in Library Journal described it as highlighting "journalism's role as a crucial component of democracy and an institution that needs to be reinvigorated ... anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book."[3][better source needed]
Pickard's 2014 Book, America's Battle for Media Democracy, explores the history of the contemporary American media system came to be.[citation needed]
Publications
Books
- Robert McChesney & Victor Pickard, eds. (2011). Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It. New York: The New Press.
- Victor Pickard (2014). America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform. Cambridge University Press
- Victor Pickard (2020). Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.[4][5] New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190946753
Reports
- Victor Pickard, Josh Stearns & Craig Aaron (2009). “Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy,” Free Press, Washington, D.C.
References
- ^ Pearson, Sarah Hinchliff. "How to Save Journalism". Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ Bracken, John. "2009′s Most Influential Media About Media". Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights". Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ Pickard, Victor (2020). Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190946753.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-094675-3.
- ^ "Democracy Without Journalism? Q&A with Victor Pickard". www.asc.upenn.edu. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-12-29.