Alex S. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and was the director of the Shorenstein Center from 2000 to 2015. Among his many accomplishments as director, Jones raised the Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prizes to the highest level of professional recognition and created Journalist’s Resource, which now provides free access to the best scholarly research to give depth to journalism. As a journalist at the New York Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize for specialized reporting for his story “The Fall of the House of Bingham.” Together with his wife, Susan E. Tifft, he wrote two books about newspaper dynasties, The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty and The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family behind the New York Times. His third book, Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy was published in 2009. Jones was a Nieman Fellow in 1982.
