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I'm the chief media analyst at CNN and the host of Vanity Fair's Inside the Hive podcast. This page is a portfolio of my work
Recent blog posts
Recent work
"The Real Story of the Crisis at the Washington Post"
"Inside Disney’s $60 billion plan to supercharge its theme parks and cruises"
"The Mainstream Media Strikes Back"
"Trump’s Latest Falsehood Is a Huge Tell"
"Did the media botch the Biden age story?"
"How MSNBC Accurately Covered Joe Biden’s Disastrous Debate Performance"
"Revenge and Freedom From Fact - On the media in a fascist America"
"How the O.J. Simpson Car Chase and Trial Changed Media Forever"
"Inside Cesar Conde’s rise at NBC—and the network’s major Ronna McDaniel misfire"
"Here’s What Donald Trump’s America Was Actually Like Four Years Ago"
"Killing the Messenger"
"The Great Tune-Out of 2024"
"Network of Lies"
Excerpts:
- Politico Magazine: "The Inside Story of How Fox Fell for the 'Big Lie'"
- Vanity Fair: "The Untold Story of Tucker Carlson’s Ugly Exit From Fox News"
- TIME: "The Lies Are the Story in Today’s Politics"
The book comes out in paperback on September 17!
Some of 2023's stories
"James Corden bows out"
"Are global power players shrugging off the disinformation crisis?"
"The End of Rupert’s Reign"
"What I've Learned: Lester Holt"
"The More You Scrolled, the Less You Knew"
"CNN's next leader must be able to answer this one question"
"I Worked at CNN and Reported on Tucker Carlson. He Was Never Invincible."
"Among journalists, shock at Dylan Lyons’ killing is coupled with a strong sense of ‘what if?’"
Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair
Since April 2023, I have been the host of Inside the Hive, a weekly podcast from Vanity Fair.
My bio
(Awkwardly written in the third person)
Brian Stelter is the chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide and the lead author of the Reliable Sources newsletter.
He is also the host of Vanity Fair's weekly podcast Inside the Hive. He is the author of three books, most recently "Network of Lies," which examined Dominion's blockbuster defamation case against Fox News.
Stelter began his career in 2004 by creating the TVNewser blog while he was a freshman at Towson University. He sold it to Mediabistro.com six months later, but continued to edit and write for the blog during the next three years until he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Journalism.
In 2007, he joined The New York Times as a media reporter and helmed the Media Decoder blog. In 2013, he published The New York Times best-seller "Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV," about the competitive world of morning news shows. He is a producer on the Apple TV+ series "The Morning Show," which is inspired by the book.
From 2013 until 2022, Stelter was the anchor of CNN's Sunday morning media analysis program "Reliable Sources" and a correspondent on the network.
In 2020 Stelter published "HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" and executive produced the HBO documentary, "After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News," directed by Andrew Rossi, who featured Stelter in his 2011 documentary, "Page One: Inside the New York Times."
Stelter is a recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism and a two-time recipient of the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.
He is on the board of Baltimore Student Media, a nonprofit that publishes Towson's independent student newspaper, The Towerlight.