William Powers is the media critic for National Journal magazine, a weekly in Washington, D.C. He was previously a staff writer for The Washington Post, a columnist for The New Republic and a U.S. Senate aide. His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. He is two-time winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. His research at the Shorenstein Center will focus on “The death of paper” and its implications for media content.
William Powers: The Incredible Jun: A Town that Runs on Social Media
April 20, 2015
April 20, 2015 — William Powers, Joan Shorenstein Fellow, Fall 2006, writes about the Spanish town of Jun, which has been using Twitter as its principal medium for citizen-government communication. Read more on the Huffington Post.
