Phil Napoli Joins Media Influence Matrix Project

Philip M. Napoli, the James R. Shepley Professor of the Sanford School of Public Policy and a Faculty Affiliate with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy, has joined the Media Influence Matrix as an advisory board member on media management and economics. Professor Napoli also serves as a Docent at the University of Helsinki.

Professor Napoli's research focuses on media institutions and media regulation and policy.  He has provided formal and informal expert testimony on these topics to government bodies such as the U.S. Senate, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Congressional Research Service.

Professor Napoli is the author of three books: Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media (Hampton Press, 2001); Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace (Columbia University Press, 2003) (winner of the Robert Picard Award for the Best Book in Media Management and Economics from the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication); and Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences (Columbia University Press, 2011).  He is also the editor of Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics (Routledge, 2007) and co-editor with Minna Aslama of Communications Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere (Fordham University Press, 2011).  Professor Napoli has also published over 50 articles in legal, public policy, journalism, and communication journals; as well as over 30 invited book chapters in edited collections. See more about Professor Napoli’s work on the Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.