Tom Rosenstiel has eleven publications to his credit, four of them are novels. His nonfiction focuses on politics and media, and he is widely regarded as one of the country's leading media futurists. His fourth edition of The Elements of Journalism has been translated into more than 25 languages. In Washington, D.C., Tom is the executive director of the American Press Institute. He is also the former founder and director of Pew Research Center's media research branch, which he led for 16 years.

He served as the Los Angeles Times' press critic for ten years and is now a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He and his wife, Rima, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland.