Scott Eldrige II is an assistant professor in the department of Media Studies and Journalism, joining in August 2016. Before this, he worked at the University of Sheffield from 2014-2016. He earned his PhD in 2014 from the University of Sheffield, where his thesis explored the emergence of WikiLeaks as a journalistic organization, titled: ‘Interloper Media: Journalism’s Reactions to the Rise of WikiLeaks’.
He is an Associate Editor and Reviews Editor for the journal Digital Journalism , and on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism and the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. He is author of the book Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field with Routledge (September 2017), and is co-editor with Bob Franklin of the Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017) and the Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (2019).
DJRG Fellow, March 2019
He is an Associate Editor and Reviews Editor for the journal Digital Journalism , and on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism and the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. He is author of the book Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field with Routledge (September 2017), and is co-editor with Bob Franklin of the Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017) and the Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (2019).