Philip M. Napoli

• Bachelors: UC Berkeley
• Masters: Boston Univ.
• PhD: Northwestern University

• Media regulation and policy
• Media institutions
• Audience research

• Napoli, P.M. (in press). Public interest media advocacy and activism as a social movement. Communication Yearbook, 33.
• Bridging media policy and cultural policy. Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 311-330 (2008).
• Napoli, P.M. (2008). Ratings. In R. Andersen & J. Gray (Eds.), battleground: The Media (pp. 419-425). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (chapter)
• Napoli, P.M., & Gillis, N. (2008). Media ownership and diversity assessment: A social science research  agenda. In R. Rice (Ed.), MEDIA OWNERSHIP: RESEARCH AND REGULATION (pp. 303-322). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (chapter)
• Napoli, P.M. (Ed.) (2007). MEDIA DIVERSITY AND LOCALISM: MEANING AND METRICS.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (book)
• Napoli, P.M., & Karaganis, J. (2007). Toward a federal data agenda for communications policymaking. CommLaw Conspectus: The Journal of Communications Law & Policy, 16(1), 53-96.
• Napoli, P.M., & Sybblis, S. (2007). Access to audiences as a First Amendment right: Its relevance and implications for electronic media policy. VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY, 12(1), 1-31.
• Napoli, P.M., & Yan, M.Z. (2007). Media ownership regulations and local news programming on broadcast television: An empirical analysis. JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC  MEDIA, 51(1), 39-57.
• Napoli, P.M., & Seaton, M. (2007). Necessary knowledge for communications policy: Information asymmetries and commercial data access and usage in the policymaking process. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS LAW JOURNAL 59, 295-329.
• Napoli, P.M., & Gillis, N. (2006). Reassessing the potential contribution of communications research to communications policy: The case of media ownership. JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA, 50(4), 671-691.
• Yan, M.Z., & Napoli, P.M. (2006). Market competition, station ownership, and local public affairs programming on broadcast television. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 56(4), 795-812.
• Andrews, K., & Napoli, P.M. (2006). Changing market information regimes: A case study of the transition to the BookScan audience measurement system in the U.S. book publishing industry.  JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS, 19(1), 33-54.
• Napoli, P.M. (2005). Audience measurement and media policy: Audience economics, the diversity principle, and the local people meter. COMMUNICATION LAW & POLICY, 10(4), 349-382.

Philip M. Napoli is an Associate Professor of Communications and Media Management in the Graduate School of Business at Fordham University in New York, where he is also the Director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center, as well as Director of the Fordham Fellowship in Media Leadership.  Professor Napoli also holds an appointment as a Docent at the University of Helsinki. 

Professor Napoli’s research focuses on media audiences, media institutions, and media regulation and policy.  He has testified before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission, and has been interviewed on a wide range of media industry issues in media outlets including Rolling Stone, the NBC Nightly News, the Los Angeles Times, and National Public Radio.  He is the author or editor of three books, including Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace (published by Columbia University Press), winner of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2004 Robert Picard Award for the best book in media management and economics.  He is also the author of over 50 journal articles and book chapters.  His research has received support from organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Center for American Progress, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Association of Television Programming Executives. 

Professor Napoli received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his Master’s degree from Boston University, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.