About Tim Graham

Tim Graham

Tim Graham

Tim Graham is executive editor of NewsBusters and director of media analysis for the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the internet era.

Graham is co-author with MRC President Brent Bozell of the 2019 book “Unmasked: Big Media's War Against Trump” as well as the books “Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election and How to Prevent It From Happening Again in 2016” (2013) and “Whitewash: What the Media Won’t Tell You About Hillary Clinton but Conservatives Will” (2007). He wrote the 1996 book “Pattern of Deception: The Media's Role in the Clinton Presidency.”

Graham is a regular talk radio and television spokesman for the MRC, and has made television appearances on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News and the Fox Business Channel. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, National Review and other publications.

Graham left the MRC in 2001 to serve as White House correspondent for World, a national weekly Christian news magazine. He returned in 2003. Before joining the MRC, Graham served as press secretary for the congressional campaign of Missouri Republican Jack Buechner in 1988. In 1987, he served as editor of Organization Trends, a monthly newsletter on philanthropy and politics by the Washington-based Capital Research Center.

Graham is a native of Viroqua, Wisconsin, and graduated from Bemidji State University in northern Minnesota.

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