Mark Halperin, political analyst at ABC News, was a joint visiting fellow with the Institute of Politics and Shorenstein Center in the spring of 2007. He is a regular correspondent and political analyst on ABC News television and radio programs. Halperin joined ABC News in January 1988 as a desk assistant. Later that year, Halperin […]
Michael Maier, founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, was the Shorenstein Center’s Sagan Fellow during the spring of 2007. The Austrian-born journalist worked as editor for Die Presse, a Vienna daily, for Berliner Zeitung, Stern magazine and Netzeitung, Germany’s first newspaper exclusively published on the internet. Maier also worked as a columnist for the Austrian
Elizabeth Stein is a doctoral student in political science at UCLA. Her dissertation is titled Leading the Way: The Media and the Struggle for Democracy. Stein has worked in corporate public relations, sports marketing and as a freelance writer and editor. In 2004-2005, she conducted fieldwork in Brazil and Chile as a Fulbright scholar. Stein received her
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
Allan M. Siegal completed his career with the New York Times in 2006 after more than 45 years of service. Upon his retirement, he was the Times‘ assistant managing editor and standards editor. In response to the Times‘ 2003 Jayson Blair scandal, Mr. Siegal headed an investigative committee that recommended measures to prevent a recurrence. He also directed a
Jill Carroll is a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor. From October 2003 through May 2004, Ms. Carroll lived in Iraq freelancing for various publications and covering daily news for Ansa, an Italian newswire. She returned to Baghdad in January 2005 and began working for the Christian Science Monitor. Before obtaining her current position, Ms. Carroll worked
Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The American Prospect, where she covers electoral politics and blogs for the magazine’s group blog, Tapped. She was previously a senior writer and news editor at City Paper, Washington D.C.’s alternative weekly newspaper. In 2004-2005, Garance was a Security and Liberty Post-9/11 fellow with the University of Southern California’s Institute for Justice and
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Cristine Russell is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written about science and medicine for more than three decades. She was formerly a national science reporter for the Washington Post and, earlier, the Washington Star. She is vice-president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, a past president of the National Association of Science Writers, and
Robert Picard, Hamrin Professor of Media Economics and director of the Media Management and Transformation Center, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden. His research interests are economic operations of media markets, strategies of media firms, and government policies affecting economic aspects of media. Picard is the author of 20 books, including The Economics and
Kimberly Gross is an assistant professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. Her research and teaching interests include public opinion, media effects, and media coverage of minority groups. She is co-author of a
Charles Lewis is the president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism, in Washington, and co-author of five books, including the bestseller, The Buying of the President, 2004. He founded (and served 15 years as executive director) the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative reporting organization. From 1977 to 1988, he did investigative reporting at ABC
Daniel Okrent completed his term as the first public editor of the New York Times in May 2005. He was for many years an editorial executive at Time Inc., serving variously as managing editor of Life, corporate editor of new media, and corporate editor-at-large. Okrent was founding editor of New England Monthly, where he twice consecutively won the National Magazine Award
D. Sunshine Hillygus is an assistant professor of government at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Arkansas. Her research and teaching interests include American voting behavior, campaigns and elections, and information technology and society. Hillygus’s research has been published in the American
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Zhengrong Hu is director of the National Center for Radio and Television Studies and is a professor at the Communication University of China. He earned his Ph.D. in communication from Renmin University. His research interests are in theories of communication, radio and television broadcasting, media policy, political economy of communication and new media. Mr. Hu
Judy Woodruff is a broadcast journalist who has covered politics and breaking news for over three decades at three major networks — NBC, PBS and CNN. Woodruff left working full time at CNN in June 2005 to pursue longer-form journalism opportunities and will continue as a consultant and occasional contributor to the cable network. For
Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (ret.) is a joint fellow with the Shorenstein Center and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. General Ryan has supervised U.S. government security programs with various foreign militaries and served in Germany, Russia and Korea. He has participated in security negotiations at the national level and facilitated cooperative programs
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David Anable was president of the International Center for Journalists from 1997 to 2004 and is a former managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He writes columns for a group of newspapers in Virginia, as well as occasional pieces for the Monitor, where he was a reporter, bureau chief, foreign editor, and managing editor, between 1965 and 1988.
Diane Francis is editor-at-large at the National Post in Canada and a broadcaster with Rogers Media. She was editor and a director of the Financial Post, forerunner of the National Post. She has been a columnist and investigative journalist for the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun publishing chain, Southam Newspaper chain, and Maclean’s magazine, among others. She writes three columns weekly on a range of subjects and
Doug Ahlers is the co-founder of Modem Media, an interactive advertising and marketing agency. He has been involved in the development and deployment of online services from the first experiments with interactive technology through the explosion of the Internet as a mass medium. Mr. Ahlers helped build the first online shopping site and the first
Julia Baird is the opinion editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. She writes a weekly column on a range of topics including politics, religion, celebrity, pop culture, and feminism. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Sydney in 2001. The subject of her research was Housewife Superstars: Female politicians and the Australian Print Media 1970-1990.
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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