Eric Deggans is NPR’s first full-time TV critic, media analyst and guest host for NPR.org, network shows such as Morning Edition and NPR podcasts such as Pop Culture Happy Hour.Eric also is an adjunct instructor at Duke University and Indiana University’s Media School. He also serves as a guest instructor and member of the National Advisory Board for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He is also chair of the Media Monitoring Committee for the National Association of Black Journalists. In April 2024, he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame; three years earlier, he earned the Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana University. He is also author of Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation, published in October 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.In 2019, Eric became the first African American to serve as chairman for the jurors who select the George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in electronic media at the University of Georgia; his one-year tenure capped a total six years on the board.Eric guest hosted CNN’s media analysis show Reliable Sources several times in fall 2013. He also joined a prestigious group of contributors to the first ethics book created in a partnership between Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Developed as Poynter’s first ethics book for the digital age, The New Ethics of Journalism was published in August 2013 by Sage/CQ Press.