Professor Christopher R. Martin is professor of digital journalism at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. He has written for Nieman Reports, ILR Review, Z magazine, Huff Post, Editor & Publisher, and the Des Moines Register, and his research has been published in journals such as Journalism Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Communication Research, Labor Research Journal, Perspectives on Politics, Popular Music and Society, and Journal of Communication. He is the co-author, with Richard Campbell and Bettina Fabos, of Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication and Media Essentials (both Bedford/St. Martin’s), as well as the author of Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media, an award-winning book on how labour unions are covered in the news media.

Martin was a visiting professor at Universitat Klagenfurt (Klagenfurt University) in Austria and previously taught at Miami University (Ohio). He has received the Board of Regents Award for Faculty Excellence from the State of Iowa, as well as the Faculty Excellence Award from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Veridian Community Engagement Award. Martin graduated from the University of Michigan with a Ph.D., Emerson College with an MA, and Capital University in Columbus with a BA.