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Sydney L. Forde
PhD Candidate in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
The Pennsylvania State University
Education
PhD The Pennsylvania State University
2020 - 2025
(anticipated)
Mass Communications
Advisor: Matthew P. McAllister
Committee: Christopher Ali; Krishna Jayakar; Matthew Jordan; Victor Pickard
Dissertation: Exempting Democracy: An Analysis of Market Ontology Through Two Journalism Anti-Trust Exemption Acts [NPA and JCPA]
MA University at Buffalo | Brock University
2018 - 2019
Canadian - American Studies
MA Thesis: Diverging Media: US and Canadian Public and Private Media Representations of Immigrants and Refugees
BA Brock University
First Class Standing
2014-2018
Business Communications
Honours Thesis: Right Over Reason: Unnatural Voting in the Age of Populism
L-R: Dr. Matthew F. Jordan; Dr. Christopher Ali; Sydney L. Forde; Dr. Matthew P. McAllister; Dr. Krishna Jayakar
Research Interests
Political Economy of Media Industries
Critical Media Policy, Media Economics & Democratic Theory
Journalism and
Public Media
In the Media
The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them.
- G. Orwell
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