Robert Mathew Entman (born November 7, 1949) is the J.B. and M.C.
in Public Policy Analysis from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.
He also served as a visiting professor at Harvard University for one semester in 1997 and as Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Duke for the 2008-09 academic year.
[1] Entman's research has included studies of the portrayal of race and crime on local television news,[2] as well as the effects of television news on Americans' desire to be involved in politics.
[3] Entman received the 2012 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the University of Texas' 2011 Danielson Award for Distinguished Contributions to Communication Scholarship; the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association; the Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association's Political Communication Section; and Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize for his 2000 book The Black Image in the White Mind, which he co-authored with Andrew Rojecki.