Jonathan Ladd is an assistant professor at Georgetown University. He holds joint appointments in the Public Policy Institute and the Department of Government. He studies American politics, with a focus on the news media and public opinion. He is the author of Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters (Princeton University Press, 2012). His work has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, and Political Psychology. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2006. For more information, see his homepage.