| Summary: | Journalist Eric Deggans was born on November 6, 1965, in Washington, D.C. In the 1980s, Deggans toured as a drummer with Motown recording artist The Voyage Band, and then received his B.A. degree in political science and journalism from Indiana University in 1990. Deggans worked as a municipal reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Press newspapers, and later became the music critic for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey. In 1995, he joined the Tampa Bay Times as its pop music critic. From 1997 to 2004, he worked as a TV critic for the Times; from 2004 to 2005, he sat on its editorial board and wrote bylined opinion columns. Deggans left the Tampa Bay Times in 2013, and that same year, he was hired as NPR's first full-time TV critic. He is the author of Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.
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