Biography

Len Apcar holds the Wendell Gray Switzer Jr. Endowed Chair in Media Literacy. He is a fellow at the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and a professional-in-residence. He teaches advanced reporting, writing and a class in how information passes through
society. He leads a large research project on news consumption, democracy and the American dream. He is a frequent speaker to civic groups about the problem of fake news and social media. He also leads a group of Manship students to a summer media academy in Austria where he is a faculty member. In a nearly 40-year professional career at The New York Times and at The Wall Street Journal, he was a correspondent, a Washington editor and chief Asia editor. He was a web pioneer as editor-in-chief of the award-winning nytimes.com. As chief Asia editor based in Hong Kong, he helped
create a 24-hour global newsroom for the Times for online and print.

He holds an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in political science with honors from Claremont McKenna College in California.

• The website, https://detectfakenews.com/, is a curated resource guide on developments in fake news, disinformation and foreign interference in the nation’s information flows.
• lsumanshipwriting.com, is dedicated to student work.