Seth Lewis

Seth Lewis is Professor, Director of Journalism, and the founding holder of the Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon—a position he has held since joining UO in 2016. He has held visiting or affiliated fellow positions with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, among others. From 2020 to 2022, he served as the elected Chair of the International Communication Association’s Journalism Studies Division, the world’s largest scholarly group dedicated to the study of journalism.