Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 1998), and It Ain’t No Sin to be Glad You’re Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (Little Brown, 1999, 2001), and winner of the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. In 2003 he plans to publish What Liberal Media? (Basic), and Four Lies: The Costs of Presidential Deception (Viking). A senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University, and an Affiliated Faculty Member in the magazine journalism program at New York University, he has also taught media history and theory at NYU and Hofstra University. Alterman has a Bachelor’s degree in government from Cornell, a Master’s degree in international relations from Yale University, and hopes to earn his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford University later this year. In 1999 he was named one of the fifty “best, most important and most influential” journalists on the Internet. He lives with his family in Manhattan.

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Seminar speeches given by Eric Alterman:

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