Philip Napoli is a Professor of Public Policy and Faculty Affiliate with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at Duke University. He is the author of Social Media and Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age. His previous books include: Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences, Communications Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere (with Minna Aslama), Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace, Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics, and Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media. His research has been supported by organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the Benton Foundation, the National Association of Broadcasters, the American Television Alliance, and the Social Science Research Council. 

Professor Napoli’s expertise has been featured in news outlets including, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, NBC Nightly News and NPR. He is an Op-ed contributor for Wired magazine. He has been invited to speak at the U.S. Senate, the Federal Communications Commission, and Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.