About
John Carroll
John Carroll is a mass communication professor at Boston University and media analyst for NPR’s Here & Now and WBUR’s Radio Boston.
For six years prior to joining the BU faculty, Carroll was the executive producer of Greater Boston, WGBH-TV’s nightly news and public affairs program. He was also a radio commentator for WGBH-FM, and a correspondent for WGBH-TV’s Beat the Press, a weekly media review program.
During his television career, Carroll has won nine New England Emmy awards, mostly for news writing and commentary. He is also the recipient of the RTNDA’s National Edward R. Murrow award for writing, and a three-time winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism.
Previously Carroll was a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and On the Media, as well as American Public Media’s Marketplace. He has also been a columnist for the Boston Globe and Adweek.
In addition to Sneak Adtack, Carroll produces It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, which tracks the Boston Globe/Boston Herald daily bakeoff, and Campaign Outsider, a blog about media, politics, and whatever else strikes his fancy.
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