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Biography
Eric Boehlert (December 6, 1965 – April 4, 2022) was an American media critic and writer who founded Press Run. Prior to this he was a senior fellow at Media Matters for America for ten years and a staff writer for Salon for five years.Before that he wrote about the music industry as a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and as a staff writer at Billboard. At Salon Boehlert won the 2002 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' Deems Taylor Award for music journalism, for a series of articles in 2001 on the radio industry. The series was also shortlisted for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
His last book, Bloggers on the Bus (2009), covers the growing role of blogs in US politics. It plays on the title of Timothy Crouse's The Boys on the Bus (1973), which covered the reporters following presidential candidates' campaigns for the 1972 United States presidential election.
Boehlert died on April 4, 2022, after being struck by a train in Montclair, New Jersey, while cycling. He is survived by his wife, Tracy Breslin, and two children, Jane and Ben.
Books
- Boehlert, Eric (2006). Lapdogs: how the press rolled over for Bush. New York: Free Press. ISBN 9780743289313.
- Boehlert, Eric (2009). Bloggers on the bus: how the internet changed politics and the press. Riverside: Free Press. ISBN 9781416560357.
