Peter Janecky

Contributing Analyst

Peter Janecky was a Contributing Analyst for NewsGuard. He was most recently a writer for the Historical Insights project at Ancestry.com. For the past 30 years, Janecky has been a local community journalist, a journalism professor, and a history professor. He completed his Ph.D. in United States history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in May 2012 and had an academic paper published in the Journal of Urban History in September 2016.

Janecky has studied the history and modern development of the mass media for three decades, beginning with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1988 and continuing through a master’s degree in history from UW-Milwaukee in 1992.