Anderson is completing a book on the future of journalism, Networking the News: The Struggle to Rebuild Local Journalism in the Web Era, 1997-2011. He has published academic articles in Political Communication, Journalism, and numerous anthologies on digital media. He blogs regularly for the Nieman Journalism Lab and the Atlantic Online. His future research will examine the changing relationship between digital journalism and American politics, as well as shifting ideas of how journalists produce social knowledge.