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.