Victor Pickard

Who is 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 where his research explores 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. He has delivered numerous conference presentations, invited lectures, and media interviews, and published dozens of journal articles and book chapters on subjects such as the politics of digital media policy, the media reform movement, and mainstream news narratives. He frequently speaks to the public and to the press about media-related issues and his op-eds have appeared in newspapers like The Guardian, The Seattle Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.