Seth C. Lewis

Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media and Director of Journalism, University of Oregon

@SethCLewis
Seth C. Lewis is Professor, Director of Journalism, and Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He has published widely on many aspects of journalism and technology, and is co-author of the new book News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture (Oxford University Press, 2021). A former journalist with The Miami Herald, Lewis is a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, an affiliated faculty member of the University of Oregon’s Agora Journalism Center and Center for Science Communication Research, and a recent visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is Chair of the International Communication Association’s Journalism Studies Division, the world’s largest group dedicated to the study of journalism. In 2020, he co-founded RQ1, a monthly newsletter communicating key findings from research about news.