Michael Schudson

Michael Schudson, a professor of communications at the University of California at San Diego, is the author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life , published last year by Free Press.

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Is Our Civic Life Really In Decline? | October 1999

VOTER TURNOUT MAY BE DOWN IN RECENT YEARS, BUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMON CITIZEN HAS GROWN TO FAR SURPASS ANYTHING THE FOUNDING FATHERS EVER DREAMED OF Read >>

Inventing The Interview | October 1994

It emerged just a century and a half ago as an unrespectable reporter’s gimmick but came to dominate newsgathering Read >>