The most comprehensive statement about journalistic authority I have ever read―bar none. Journalistic Authority fills a gaping hole in the scholarship and will be cited as an important and significant work in the field going forward. (Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Matt Carlson unpacks the historical, philosophical, and embodied linkages between professionalism and authority, and, in what amounts to a major contribution, assesses the present state of journalistic authority. Among the book’s many strengths is its very generous and catholic embrace of literatures from a broad swath of disciplines―sociology, political science, philosophy, history, and, of course, communication, journalism, and media studies. (Linda Steiner, University of Maryland)

Matt Carlson is associate professor of communication at Saint Louis University. He is author of On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism (2011) and coeditor of Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation (2015) and Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives(2010).