Book Talk | AJ Bauer | Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group on Wednesday, March 11, at 5:30 PM for an event with AJ Bauer. He will discuss his new book Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press, with Paula Chakravartty and Reece Peck. 

A.J. Bauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He holds a PhD in American Studies from NYU and is co-editor of News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures (Oxford, 2019).

Paula Chakravartty is the James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. She has published widely. Her current research includes a forthcoming co-edited volume with Denise Ferreira da Silva titled “An Anti-Colonial Feminist Critique of Capital: A Contribution to the Critique of the Global Political Economy” with Duke University Press, and a manuscript in progress on Media as Economic Violence. Chakravartty is the Co-Director of the CRACS Co-Lab and the Editor of the journal Communication, Culture and Critique. She has been an active member of NYU’s Coalition for Fair Labor and the NYU Sanctuary Coalition. She is a current member of NYU’s Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine and the incoming president of the NYU chapter of the AAUP.

Reece Peck is an Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class (Cambridge, 2019). His expertise lies in conservative media, populist rhetoric, and class politics. His writing on YouTube politics has appeared in academic journals like Television and New Media and popular outlets like The Hill and Jacobin.