Victor Pickard is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on media policy in Washington, D.C.; as a senior research fellow at the media reform organization Free Press; and at the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, where he continues to advise their Open Technology and Media Policy Initiatives. He is a co-editor, with Robert W. McChesney, of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (The New Press) and the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.