Content by Jacob L. Nelson
Tucker Carlson’s departure and Fox News’s expensive legal woes show the problem with faking ‘authenticity’
Right-wing media outlets have made billions of dollars by lying to audiences that want deception
Jacob Nelson is an assistant professor at the University of Utah, and a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public (Oxford University Press, 2021). His research explores the relationship between journalism and the public.