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As a part-time fellow with the Knight Media Policy Initiative, C.W. Anderson brings his expertise on changes within local journalistic ecosystems to bear on questions of media policy in the digital age. During over a decade of ethnographic research on local news production, Anderson has charted new forms of journalistic work, has analyzed and the possibilities of -- and barriers to -- institutional collaboration, and has cataloged new forms of journalistic work. He has studied new business models for news, cultural challenges to journalistic authority, and the relationship between practices of software development and journalism. In 2009, he served as the lead research assistant for the Columbia University report The Reconstruction of American Journalism. Also in 2009, he completed his doctoral dissertation Breaking Journalism Down: Work, Authority and the Collapse of Metropolitan Journalism, 1997-2009, which drew on his research in Philadelphia.

Anderson currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). He is a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and blogs regularly for Harvard University's Nieman Lab. Anderson has a Ph.D. in Communications from Columbia University. For seven years he volunteered at the New York City Independent Media Center and helped organize the inaugural Grassroots Media Conference in New York City.