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Description: W. Joseph Campbell is an American writer, educator, historian, media critic, and blogger. He has written seven solo-authored books, the most recent of which examines polling failure in U.S. presidential elections, is due out in late summer 2020. His published works include the award-winning, media-myth busting work, Getting It Wrong (University of California Press, 2010,…
W. Joseph Campbell is an American writer, educator, historian, media critic, and blogger. He has written seven solo-authored books, the latest of which, Lost in a Gallup , examines polling failures in U.S. presidential elections . The book was published in 2020 and has been praised as “well-written, impressively researched, and detailed,” as a “fast-moving narrative history,” and as a “ bracing reality check .”
Campbell’s work also includes the award-winning , media-mythbusting book, Getting It Wrong (University of California Press, 2010, 2017). Getting It Wrong inspired critics to refer to Campbell as “ the man who calls journalists on their own B.S. ” and “ the master of debunk. ” He also is the author of the well-received 1995: The Year the Future Began (University of California Press, 2015) and The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms (Routledge, 2006).
Campbell is a professor of communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He earned his doctorate in mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before entering the academy, Campbell was a professional journalist for 20 years, a career that took him across North America to Europe, West Africa, and parts of Asia.
Media Myth Alert | Calling out media myths
The Offlede
The Offlede
1995: The Year the Future Began