Rodney Benson

Who is Rodney Benson?

Rodney Benson is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the NYU Department of Sociology and has been a visiting scholar or invited lecturer at universities in France, Germany, Denmark, and Norway. Before joining the NYU faculty, he was an assistant professor of international communications at the American University of Paris.

Benson is a leading scholar of comparative news media systems, specializing in studies of journalism in the U.S., France, and other western European countries. His most recent book Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report on the topic of immigration. He also has written extensively about news coverage of cultural globalization, alternative media, and the social theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Jürgen Habermas. He is the co-editor, with Erik Neveu, of Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field, a widely cited book that helped introduce the work of Pierre Bourdieu to media and communications research.