Tom Fiedler is recently retired after a 35-year career at The Miami Herald. During those years, Fiedler worked as an investigative reporter, political columnist, editorial-page editor and as the Herald‘s executive editor from 2001–2007. Having covered nearly every aspect of government, Fiedler has won several awards throughout his career. In 1988, he received the Society of Professional Journalists’ top award for his coverage of the presidential election. In 1991, the Miami Herald received a Pulitzer Prize for a series that included Fiedler’s investigative report into a religious cult’s political tactics. As a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Fielder examined the impact of new media on the 2008 presidential campaign.
The Road to Wikipolitics: Life and Death of the Modern Presidential Primary, b. 1968 – d. 2008
January 1, 2008
A paper by Tom Fiedler, fall 2007 fellow, considers whether the structure of the presidential primary – which includes special treatment of Iowa, New Hampshire and, lately, Nevada and South Carolina, is in decline. Fiedler argues that this change also coincides with the loss of control that political parties have experienced in recent elections, and the
