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November 20, 2010Media outlets around the world are trying to make sense of the transformations in US political discourse and public affairs...
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November 4, 2010From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News has been named 2010’s Outstanding Book of the Year in Political...
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November 3, 2010The Stewart-Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was remarkable. Not only did hundreds of thousands of people (including me)...
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January 13, 2010I’m proud to have a chapter included in the impressive Routledge Companion to News and Journalism.
My piece is titled Real...
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October 30, 2009Here’s Stephen Colbert holding a copy of the fine book Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Age, edited...
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October 19, 2009“Geoffrey Baym is the Jon Stewart of journalism studies,” says Michael X. Delli Carpini, from the Annenberg School for Communication...
Geoffrey Baym is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He teaches and studies the evolving styles and standards of public affairs media and political discourse. View Geoffrey's Curriculum Vitae.
Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News (Paradigm Publishers, 2009) traces a historical trajectory from the height of the network age and Walter Cronkite’s Evening News, to our current post-network era, when the late-night comedians now stand among the nation’s most important newscasters.