Gerald Baldasty is a professor emeritus in Communication at the University of Washington. Baldasty served as a faculty member at Washington from 1978 until his retirement from full-time teaching and administrative roles in 2019. His research and teaching focused on journalism history, with an emphasis on the politics and business of U.S. mass media in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of numerous research articles and three books: Commercialization of News in the Ninete...
