| Democracy without journalism?: Confronting the misinformation society V Pickard Oxford University Press, 2020 | 397 | 2020 |
| Will the last reporter please turn out the lights: The collapse of journalism and what can be done to fix it RW McChesney, V Pickard New Press, The, 2011 | 384 | 2011 |
| America's battle for media democracy: The triumph of corporate libertarianism and the future of media reform V Pickard Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 381 | 2015 |
| Managing the public sphere: Journalistic construction of the great globalization debate WL Bennett, VW Pickard, DP Iozzi, CL Schroeder, T Lagos, CE Caswell Journal of communication 54 (3), 437-455, 2004 | 296 | 2004 |
| Assessing the radical democracy of Indymedia: Discursive, technical, and institutional constructions VW Pickard Critical Studies in Media Communication 23 (01), 19-38, 2006 | 265 | 2006 |
| United yet autonomous: Indymedia and the struggle to sustain a radical democratic network VW Pickard Media, Culture & Society 28 (3), 315-336, 2006 | 253 | 2006 |
| No shades of gray: The binary discourse of George W. Bush and an echoing press K Coe, D Domke, ES Graham, SL John, VW Pickard Journal of communication 54 (2), 234-252, 2004 | 191 | 2004 |
| Salvation or folly? The promises and perils of digital paywalls V Pickard, AT Williams Digital journalism 2 (2), 195-213, 2014 | 150 | 2014 |
| Neoliberal visions and revisions in global communications policy from NWICO to WSIS V Pickard Journal of communication Inquiry 31 (2), 118-139, 2007 | 148 | 2007 |
| Communal news work: COVID-19 calls for collective funding of journalism RK Olsen, V Pickard, O Westlund Digital journalism 8 (5), 673-680, 2020 | 129 | 2020 |
| Essential principles for contemporary media and communications policymaking R Picard, V Pickard Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2017 | 107 | 2017 |
| Media failures in the age of Trump V Pickard The Political Economy of Communication 4 (753), 118-122, 2016 | 102 | 2016 |
| Can government support the press? Historicizing and internationalizing a policy approach to the journalism crisis V Pickard The Communication Review 14 (2), 73-95, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
| Cooptation and cooperation: institutional exemplars of democratic internet technology VW Pickard New Media & Society 10 (4), 625-645, 2008 | 92 | 2008 |
| Restructuring democratic infrastructures: A policy approach to the journalism crisis V Pickard Digital Journalism 8 (6), 704-719, 2020 | 77 | 2020 |
| Social democracy or corporate libertarianism? Conflicting media policy narratives in the wake of market failure V Pickard Communication Theory 23 (4), 336-355, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| What is bottom-up about global internet governance? L McLaughlin, V Pickard Global media and communication 1 (3), 357-373, 2005 | 74 | 2005 |
| Digital feudalism: Enclosures and erasures from digital rights management to the digital divide SD Meinrath, JW Losey, VW Pickard Advances in computers 81, 237-287, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| “Whether the giants should be slain or persuaded to be good”: Revisiting the Hutchins Commission and the role of media in a democratic society V Pickard Critical Studies in Media Communication 27 (4), 391-411, 2010 | 73 | 2010 |
| Saving the News:Toward a National Journalism Strategy V Pickard, J Stearns, C Aaron Free Press, 2009 | 71* | 2009 |
