David Ryfe

David Ryfe is Director of and Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. In the past, he has conducted research in the areas of political communication, presidential communication and public deliberation. He has written Can Journalism Survive? (Polity, 2012), an ethnographic investigation of how American newspaper newsrooms have adjusted to the disruption taking place in their profession. More recently, he has published Journalism and the Public (Polity, 2017), an exploration of how various configurations of public life shape the form and meaning of journalism. His current research project, News, Facts, and Truth, traces the history of the relationship between news and truth, from the 17th century to the present.