Mark McKinnon, chief media advisor to President George W. Bush during the 2000 and 2004 elections, is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. He is an award-winning media producer and communications strategist who has served as principal media advisor for corporate and political campaigns in the United States, Latin America and Africa. McKinnon directed the […]
John S. Carroll is the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Shorenstein Center. He has been the editor of three newspapers: the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Lexington Herald-Leader. In 1963 he became a reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Early in his career at the Baltimore Sun, Carroll was posted to Vietnam, the
Roger Rosenblatt writes essays, books and plays. His pieces for Time magazine have won two George Polk Awards, awards from the Overseas Press Club, the American Bar Association, and others. His television essays for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS have won the Peabody and the Emmy. He wrote a column for The Washington
Steve Jarding, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, has spent 25 years working in American politics. He is a past executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party andc former communications director in Bob Kerrey’s U.S. Senate campaigns in Nebraska. He has served as communications director of the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and has run
Evan Thomas, Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of the Practice of Press and Public Policy, has been assistant managing editor at Newsweek since 1991. For 10 years, from 1986 to 1996, Thomas was Newsweek‘s Washington bureau chief. From 1977 to 1986, he was a writer and editor at Time magazine. Thomas writes on subjects ranging
James T. Hamilton, visiting associate professor in the Kalb Chair on Global Communications, is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University. His work focuses on the impact of information provision in media markets and in environmental policy. His book Channeling
Anthony Lewis, Visiting Lombard Lecturer, was a columnist for the New York Times from 1969 to 2001. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice. From 1948–1952 he was a deskman in the Sunday Department of The Times. In 1952 he became a reporter for The Washington Daily News. In 1955 he won a Pulitzer Prize for
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.
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