Jon Marshall is an author, teacher, and media historian. His most recent book is Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis (Potomac Books, 2022). Previously he published Watergate’s Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse (Northwestern University Press, 2011). 

He teaches media history and reporting as an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications. 

Marshall’s articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times, WashingtonPost.com, TheAtlantic.com, The Hill, Christian Science Monitor, CBS News’ Public Eye, Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Family Circle, Huffington Post, Illinois Issues, Parenting, Parents, and many other publications. He was a columnist for Quill magazine and a staff writer for The Tampa Tribune and the Daily Herald. His former “News Gems” blog for the Society of Professional Journalists was named one of the top 10 Web Sites by the Center for Public Integrity.

A frequent guest on national and international media, he has been interviewed by CNN, NBCNews.com, MSNBC, Univision, Agence France Presse, Vox, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, La Nación (Buenos Aires), RealClearPolitics, Chicago Tonight, Politics Tonight, KTLA-TV, WGN-TV, WBAI Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, and numerous podcasts.

Marshall is the winner of the President’s Award for Sustained and Meritorious Service by the American Journalism Historians Association. He has served as director of the graduate program at the Medill School and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Historians Association and the Nominating Committee of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communications. He is also a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists. He received his master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a B.A. from Vassar College. He lives with his family in Illinois.