Michael Schudson

He is an expert in the fields such as journalism history, media sociology, political communication, and public culture.

On being named a MacArthur fellow in 1990, the foundation identified him as "an interpreter of public culture and of collective or civic memory".

His other works include Watergate in American Memory (Basic Books, 1992);[4] The Power of News (Harvard University Press, 1995),[4] Reading the News (Pantheon, 1986), co-edited with Robert K. Manoff; Rethinking Popular Culture (University of California Press, 1991), co-edited with Chandra Mukerji; and The Enduring Book (vol.

5 of The History of the Book in America, University of North Carolina Press, 2009), co-edited with David Paul Nord and Joan Shelley Rubin.

In the Winter 2019 edition of the Columbia Journalism Review he authored a history of "trust" issues related to journalistic reporting in the United States, a historical review of such issues, and the origin of the term, "the media", that is entitled, The Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust.