Kevin Lerner

Kevin Lerner is a historian of American journalism, Assistant Professor of Communication/Journalism at Marist College, and Editor of the Journal of Magazine Media. He edited the website and a print department of Architectural Record magazine, where his team won a National Magazine award. He has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nieman Lab, and several other publications. Lerner earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Pennsylvania. Lerner studies journalism as an intellectual process, and his book, Provoking the Press: (MORE) Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism tells the story of a journalism review that challenged the journalistic tenets of objectivity in the 1970s. He’s currently working on a second book.