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Philip M. Napoli (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is a Professor of Communications and Media Management in the Graduate School of Business, and Director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University in New York. He is also a Docent in the Department of Communication at the University of Helsinki and the Series Editor for the Everette C. Parker Communications Policy Book Series, a collaboration of the McGannon Center and Fordham University Press. 

Professor Napoli's research focuses on media institutions and media policy. He is the author of the books Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media (Hampton, 2001); Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace (Columbia, 2003); and Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences (Columbia, 2010). He is also the editor of Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics (Erlbaum, 2007) and co-editor of Communications Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere (Fordham University Pres, 2010).

Professor Napoli's research has been supported by organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Center for American Progress, the National Association of Broadcasters, and the Phoebe Haas Charitable Trust. He has provided formal and informal expert testimony to governmental bodies such as the U.S. Senate, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office. 

He has been interviewed in media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, Rolling Stone, and the Boston Globe.