A.J. Bauer

Assistant Professor

A.J. Bauer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. His reporting has appeared in The Daily Texan, the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas Observer, The Patriot Ledger and the Boston Globe. He has also contributed essays and commentary to American Journalism, Columbia Journalism Review, Social Text: Periscope, The New Inquiry, The Guardian, and TV Guide. A member of the Writers for the 99% collective, he contributed to Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America. He is co-editor, with Anthony Nadler, of News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures, and a former fellow of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He also served on the board of directors of the Student Press Law Center from 2006-2012 and co-founded the Friends of the Daily Texan in 2013.