Victor Pickard

@victorpickard
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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.
Academic Profilehttps://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/victor-pickard-phd
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MIC Centerhttps://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/media-inequality-and-change-center
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Victor PickardFeb 27
Victor PickardFeb 27
For a deep dive into the long history of policy- and market failures that help explain how media institutions have become so captured today, check out this OTM interview that came out this week: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-centurylong-capture-of-us-media
The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media | On the Media | WNYC Studios

As media empires, from The Washington Post to CBS News, continue to be dealt significant blows, uncertainties abound about the remaining strength of a once robust American press lands...

WNYC Studios
Victor PickardFeb 27
For a deep dive into the long history of policy- and market failures that help explain how media institutions have become so captured today, check out this OTM interview that came out this week: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-centurylong-capture-of-us-media
The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media | On the Media | WNYC Studios

As media empires, from The Washington Post to CBS News, continue to be dealt significant blows, uncertainties abound about the remaining strength of a once robust American press lands...

WNYC Studios
Victor PickardFeb 17
Victor PickardFeb 17
It's difficult to grasp the sheer proliferation and variation of media failures and attacks on the press during Trump 2.0. I have a new essay out with LPE that offers a framework for teasing apart three discrete and cascading layers of “media capture” that produce censorship, exclusion, and democratic failure in our information and communication systems. https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-american-media-polycrisis-cascading-layers-of-capture/
The American Media Polycrisis: Cascading Layers of Capture

In countries facing democratic backsliding, attention often centers on state capture of the press. Recent U.S. media failures, however, demand a wider lens. Authoritarian encroachment here rests on…

LPE Project
Victor PickardFeb 17
It's difficult to grasp the sheer proliferation and variation of media failures and attacks on the press during Trump 2.0. I have a new essay out with LPE that offers a framework for teasing apart three discrete and cascading layers of “media capture” that produce censorship, exclusion, and democratic failure in our information and communication systems. https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-american-media-polycrisis-cascading-layers-of-capture/
The American Media Polycrisis: Cascading Layers of Capture

In countries facing democratic backsliding, attention often centers on state capture of the press. Recent U.S. media failures, however, demand a wider lens. Authoritarian encroachment here rests on…

LPE Project
Victor PickardDec 8
Victor PickardDec 7
Recent piece in The Nation (as it so happens, came out on the very same day that yet another media mega-merger was announced, this one between Netflix and Warner Bros.) that draws from our recent Roosevelt Institute report to argue that before we reform our broken information and communication systems, we must confront a basic question: Should our media primarily serve democracy, or profit? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalism-democracy-corporate-media-press/
A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis—and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media

Today’s journalism crisis wasn’t inevitable, but it’s time to free journalism from the straitjacket of turning a democratic obligation into a profit-maximizing business model.

The Nation
Victor PickardDec 7
Recent piece in The Nation (as it so happens, came out on the very same day that yet another media mega-merger was announced, this one between Netflix and Warner Bros.) that draws from our recent Roosevelt Institute report to argue that before we reform our broken information and communication systems, we must confront a basic question: Should our media primarily serve democracy, or profit? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalism-democracy-corporate-media-press/
A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis—and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media

Today’s journalism crisis wasn’t inevitable, but it’s time to free journalism from the straitjacket of turning a democratic obligation into a profit-maximizing business model.

The Nation
Victor PickardOct 30
Victor PickardOct 30

My recent essay published by the the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center's (UCIMC) Public i. The UCIMC celebrated its 25th anniversary this past weekend:

https://publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-media-we-need-requires-structural-transformation/

The Media We Need Requires Structural Transformation | Public i Contact

Victor PickardOct 30

My recent essay published by the the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center's (UCIMC) Public i. The UCIMC celebrated its 25th anniversary this past weekend:

https://publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-media-we-need-requires-structural-transformation/

The Media We Need Requires Structural Transformation | Public i Contact

Victor PickardOct 2
Victor PickardSep 29
‪Important new MIC Center
research by @hendriktheine & Dr. Carlotta Verita that examines local media's coverage of Critical Information Needs in Philadelphia:
https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/media-inequality-and-change-center/publications
Publications

Victor PickardSep 29
‪Important new MIC Center
research by @hendriktheine & Dr. Carlotta Verita that examines local media's coverage of Critical Information Needs in Philadelphia:
https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/media-inequality-and-change-center/publications
Publications