Brian Stelter
Chief Media Analyst, CNN
Brian Stelter is the chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide and the lead author of the Reliable Sources newsletter. He is the author of three books, most recently Network of Lies, which examines Dominion’s blockbuster defamation case against Fox News.
From 2013 until 2022, Stelter was the anchor of CNN’s Sunday morning media analysis programme Reliable Sources and a correspondent on the network. In 2020 he 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.
In 2007, he joined The New York Times as a media reporter and helmed the Media Decoder blog. In 2013, he published Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV. He is a producer on the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, which is inspired by the book.
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, and continued to edit and write for the blog until he graduated.
