Rodney Benson is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the NYU Department of Sociology and has been a visiting scholar or invited lecturer at universities in France (Institut d etudes politiques, Toulouse; Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris), Germany (Universities of Bremen and Weimar), Denmark (Copenhagen Business School, Roskilde University), and Norway (University of Oslo). Before joining the NYU faculty, he was an assistant professor of international communications at the American University of Paris. Benson is a leading scholar of comparative news media systems, specializing in studies of journalism in the U.S., France, and other western European countries.