Brian Stelter: Media Analysis at Risk?

What does it mean to critically cover the media while operating within it? Drawing on his experience as CNN worldwide's chief media analyst, Brian Stelter reflects on the changing role of media analysis in an era of rapid news cycles, platform disruption and declining public trust. From his position as both journalist and critic, Stelter raises pressing questions about the boundaries of journalistic self-scrutiny and the future of media analysis as a mechanism for public accountability

Brian Stelter is the chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide and the lead author of the Reliable Sources newsletter. He is also the host of Vanity Fair’s weekly podcast Inside the Hive. He is the author of three books, most recently Network of Lies, which examined Dominion’s blockbuster defamation case against Fox News. In 2013, he published The New York Times best-seller Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, about the competitive world of morning news shows.

From 2013 until 2022, Stelter was the anchor of CNN’s Sunday morning media analysis program “Reliable Sources” and a correspondent on the network. In 2020 Stelter published HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth and executive produced the HBO documentary, “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,” directed by Andrew Rossi, who featured Stelter in his 2011 documentary, “Page One: Inside the New York Times.” Stelter is a recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism and a two-time recipient of the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.

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