Armenians
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Ben Bagdikian
Educator and Journalist
Bio
Ben Haig Bagdikian (born 1920 in Marash, Turkey) is a highly respected journalist and mass-media critic. His distinguished career includes tenures with The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, and CBS TV, and his service as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley.
Bagdikian has written hundreds of articles for various news and analysis publications and served with a number of watchdog groups. He is the author of six books, including the landmark The Media Monopoly, which revealed that increasing media conglomeration was resulting in the gradual demise of independent journalism.
The Media Monopoly, which was updated through six editions before being renamed The New Media Monopoly, is widely considered a core resource for information about media ownership and the dangers of runaway conglomeration.
Bagdikian is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Peabody Award (broadcasting’s “Pulitzer”), a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Madison Award, by the American Library Association Coalition on Government Information.