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Victor Pickard is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School of New York University. As a Research Fellow for both the Open Technology Initiative and Media Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation, he focuses on spectrum policy reform, technology-enabled journalism, and telecommunications policy.

Prior to joining New America, Dr. Pickard served as a Policy Fellow for Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-CA), focusing on Internet policy and media issues. He holds a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Illinois and has published extensively in scholarly journals on the policy, politics, and history of U.S. and global media. A frequent commentator in the media on important policy debates, his columns and op-eds have appeared in newspapers like The Seattle Times and The Guardian, as well as smaller community publications. With Robert McChesney, he is the co-editor of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights, which will be published by The New Press in early 2011. Currently he is finishing a book on media reform traditions and social democratic visions of the press that trace back to the postwar 1940s.

Many of Dr. Pickard's writings can be accessed on his website: www.victorpickard.com.