Tom Rosenstiel

Eleanor Merrill Scholar on the Future of Journalism and Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Tom Rosenstiel is one of nation’s the most recognized thinkers on the intersection of news, technology and politics. He is a professor of the practice and the Eleanor Merrill Scholar on the Future of News at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. He is the author of 12 books, including four novels. Before joining the University of Maryland in 2021, he spent nine years as the executive director of the American Press Institute. He was one of five founding directors of the Pew Research Center and supervised its media research for 16 years and co-founded the Committee of Concerned Journalists.

His newest book from Crown/Penguin Random House is “The Next Journalism: How the Press Must Change to Service Democracy.” Among his previous seven books on journalism, politics and ethics is “The Elements of Journalism: What News People Should Know and the Public Should Expect,” co-authored with Bill Kovach, which has been translated into more than 25 languages and is used widely in journalism education worldwide. It has been called “a modern classic” (NYT) and one of the five best books ever written on journalism (WSJ). Tom’s work has generated more than 60,000 academic citations.

He worked for 12 years at Los Angeles Times, at Newsweek, the Peninsula Times Tribune and Jack Anderson’s Washington Merry Go ‘Round column. He began his career at the Woodside Country Almanac in his California hometown.