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Robin Andersen is a professor emerita of Communications at Fordham University. She earned her PhD from University of California, Irvine in 1986 with a dissertation on, "The United States Press Coverage of Conflict in the Third World: The Case of El Salvador".^[1] She has expanded that work since with numerous publications including the 2006 book on A Century of Media, A Century of War,^[2] which shared the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award the following year with four others.^[3]

She was interviewed 2026-06-09 for This Is Hell!^[4] about her (2026-06-02) book, THE COMPLICIT LENS: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza.^[5]

And she is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch.^[6] and LA Progressive.^[7]

Andersen was born in Los Angeles and grew up on San Diego.^[8]

Anderson's (2006) A Century of Media, A Century of War was reviewed favorably by Richard Lance Keeble for Journalism.^[9] Russell Branca^[10] ended his review of A Century of Media by quoting Anderson (2006, p. 317) that,

If America is to live up to its democratic principles, the process of war must be made transparent. If seeing "war as it really is," turns the public against war, then a democratic process will put an end to war. Those who wish to perpetuate war have also declared war on freedom of thought, expression, and emotional autonomy.

Mark Hampton reviewed the book for American Journalism.^[11] Jonathan Lawson in a review for Democratic Communiqué^[12] said,

Independent, critical journalism, always a prerequisite for the informed debate that characterizes a functioning democracy, is especially important during times of crisis and war. The failure of the American establishment media to promote or sustain such public debate during the Bush administration's drive towards war in 2002 and 2003 has been catastrophic both for American democracy and for the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been torn apart in the rubble of lraq. ... In describing what she calls the "military-entertainment complex," ... Andersen has provided the new essential casebook for anyone wishing to understand the linkages between media and militarism in the United States.^[13]

Paper Tiger Television featured her in a 1990 special titled, "Robin Andersen Exposes the Real-Deal: CIA - Contra - Cocaine",^[14] later documented in chapter 9 of her (2006) A Century of Media: A Century of War.

Andersen (2018) HBO’s Treme and the Stories of the Storm: From New Orleans as Disaster Myth to Groundbreaking Television documented how Treme (TV series) debunked the racist reporting following Hurricane Katrina. For example, one Yahoo report 'identified a black victim as "looting" food and a white victim as "finding" food.' One of the characters in Treme threw "a newscaster’s microphone into the river after listening to the reporter tell an international audience that the city is too ramshackle to rebuild. Her book was featured in a report for Inside Fordham,^[15] reviewed for Democratic Communiqué, ^[16] and mentioned in a lead editorial for a 2019 issue of Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies.^[17]

Andersen and Bergman (2020) Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis: Security Discourses, Immigrant Demonization, and the Perpetuation of Violence document how "media frames ... distort, mislead, and omit" the role of US interventions in foreign countries, support the overthrow of democratically elected governments, denying equal protection of the laws to most of their citizens, so multinational businesses can confiscate the property of citizens, driving them to flee under threat of death if they remain, as summarized in a report on Fordham Now.^[18]

Media and war: Interview of Andersen on Wikiversity.

• Robin Andersen (2006). A century of media, a century of war. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-7893-7. LCCN 2006019560. Wikidata Q138795568.
• Robin Andersen (2018). HBO’s Treme and the Stories of the Storm: From New Orleans as Disaster Myth to Groundbreaking Television. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-1989-2. LCCN 2017046224. Wikidata Q138797871.
• Robin Andersen (2 June 2026). The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. OR Books. ISBN 978-1-68219-626-7. Wikidata Q138796307.
• Robin Andersen; Adrian Bergmann (2020). Media, Central American refugees, and the U.S. border crisis : security discourses, immigrant demonization, and the perpetuation of violence. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-19959-2. LCCN 2019981121. Wikidata Q138798059.
• Robin Andersen; Chuck Mertz (9 March 2026), US Media’s Complicity In The Gaza Genocide, This Is Hell!, Wikidata Q140197114
• Russell Branca (February 2007), A Century of Media, a Century of War by Robin Andersen, Wikidata Q138797648
• Mark Hampton (1 January 2007). "Book review : A century of media, a century of war". American Journalism. 24 (3): 159–161. ISSN 0882-1127. Wikidata Q138797469.
• Richard Keeble (December 2007). "Book review: Robin Andersen Century of Media: Century of War New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 350 pp. ISBN 0820478938". Journalism. 8 (6). ISSN 1464-8849. Wikidata Q138796937.
• Jonathan Lawson (2007). "A Century of Media, A Century of War by Robin Andersen". Democratic Communiqué. Wikidata Q138797828.
• Janet McCabe; Hannah Andrews; Stephen Lacey; Elke Weissmann (12 August 2019). "Editorial for Volume 14, issue 3 of Critical Studies in Television". Critical Studies in Television. ISSN 1749-6020. Wikidata Q138797972.
• David T. Ralston, Jr. (2007). "2007 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Awards" (PDF). Alpha Sigma Nu. Wikidata Q138796249.
• Janet Sassi (26 August 2015), A TV Show That Took On the Post-Katrina Disaster Myth, Wikidata Q138797930
• Patrick Verel (8 August 2019), New Book Presents Novel Perspective on Border Crisis, Wikidata Q138798081
• James Henry Wittebols (25 March 2020). "HBO's Treme and the Stories of the Storm: From New Orleans as Disaster Myth to Groundbreaking TelevisionBy Robin Andersen". Union for Democratic Communications. 29 (1): 128–130. Wikidata Q138797950.