Brian Stelter

Brian Stelter is the chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide and the lead author of the award winning Reliable Sources newsletter.

Previously at CNN, Stelter was the anchor of the Sunday morning media analysis program “Reliable Sources” and was a correspondent on the network.

He is the author of three books, most recently “Network of Lies,” which examined Dominion’s blockbuster defamation case against Fox News. In 2013, he published The New York Times best-seller “Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV,” about the competitive world of morning news shows. He is a producer on the Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show,” which is inspired by the book.

In 2020 Stelter published “HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth” and executive produced the HBO documentary, “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,” directed by Andrew Rossi, who featured Stelter in his 2011 documentary, “Page One: Inside the New York Times.”

Stelter began his career in 2004 by creating the TVNewser blog while he was a freshman at Towson University. He sold it to Mediabistro.com six months later, but continued to edit and write for the blog during the next three years until he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Journalism. Upon graduation in 2007, he joined The New York Times as a media reporter and helmed the Media Decoder blog.

Stelter is a recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism and a two-time recipient of the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.