Author, journalist, researcher and media critic, Tom Rosenstiel is the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. He is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2013 to August 2021, he was executive director of the American Press Institute. Previously, he was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, one of the five original projects of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., and co-founder and vice chair of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. For a decade, he was press critic at the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of three novels and seven non-fiction books, including The Elements of Journalism: What News People Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload and The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century, co-edited with Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute in 2013. His fourth novel, THE DAYS TO COME, will be published in November 2021 from Ecco Press of HarperCollins.