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. […]
Hans Mathias Kepplinger is professor in communications at the University of Mainz. He earned his Ph. D. in political science in 1970. His most recent book, Abschied vom rationalen Wähler (Farewell to the Rational Voter), looks at the effects of TV on the images of politicians and their impact upon voting behavior. In Mechanismen der Skandalierung (Mechanisms Steering Scandals), he
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David Rohde was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He has covered Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as the newspaper’s South Asia Bureau co-chief. He has also reported on war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, fraud in the 2000
Richard Schultz is James McGill Professor of Political Science and former director of the Center for the Study of Regulated Industries at McGill University. He was educated at York University, Toronto (B.A. and Ph.D.) and the University of Manchester, England (M.A.). He is the author or co-editor of eight books, the most recent Changing the Rules: Canadian
Walter Shapiro has covered the last seven presidential campaigns as a newspaper columnist and a news magazine writer. He is the author of One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before American Tunes In. Shapiro just completed a nine-year stint as the twice-weekly political columnist for USA Today. From 1993 to 1996 he wrote a monthly
Jacqueline Jones is a senior producer for BBC Television News working on the evening news program. Based in London, she also produces for the BBC overseas. Last year she covered the war in Iraq and went to Gaza, Israel, Turkey, Kuwait and the U.S. Although international news and politics has driven much of her career,
Martin F. Nolan became a reporter for the Boston Globe in 1961. He covered Boston police headquarters, City Hall, the Massachusetts State House and New Hampshire politics. As a member of the Globe‘s Washington bureau in 1965, he was on the investigative team cited in the Globe‘s Pulitzer Prize for meritorious and disinterested public service
Fritz Plasser is professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck and director of the Institute for Applied Political Research in Vienna. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a political pollster and as head of
Alex Sanders was born, raised and educated in South Carolina. After serving in the U.S. Army, he earned his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of South Carolina. He later earned a master’s degree in Judicial Process from the University of Virginia. He practiced law, served in the Legislature, and taught law at the
Benjamin Bradlee was vice president and executive editor at the Washington Post when the newspaper published the Pentagon Papers and articles that exposed the Watergate scandal. Bradlee was a graduate of Harvard College. He began his career in journalism at the New Hampshire Sunday News. From 1948 to 1961, he wrote for the Washington Post and Newsweek magazine. In 1951, he
Geoffrey Nyarota is a joint fellow with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He founded Zimbabwe’s only independent daily publication, the Daily News, in 1999. On Dec. 30, 2002, he was fired as editor on what management said were administrative grounds. But his dismissal came amid an escalating campaign by President Robert Mugabe’s government
Narasimhan Ravi is the editor of The Hindu, one of India’s leading English-language daily newspapers with a circulation of 950,000. Mr. Ravi holds a Master’s degree in economics and a degree in law from Madras University and has been a journalist with The Hindu since 1972. In his career as a journalist, he served as
Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer has authored or edited seven books, including the award-winning Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye, Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory and
Rebecca MacKinnon was formerly CNN’s Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent, responsible for the global news network’s coverage of Japan. MacKinnon covered major events in Japan, Korea, Pakistan and the Philippines. She traveled frequently to South Korea to cover developments related to the North Korean nuclear standoff, and visited North Korea five times during her career
Seth Mnookin worked as a senior writer on the National Affairs staff of Newsweek, where he covered media, politics, crime, and popular culture. He wrote Newsweek‘s cover story on the Jayson Blair scandal, and authored a weekly online column about the media titled “Raw Copy.” Prior to joining Newsweek, Mnookin was a senior correspondent for Brill’s Content and Inside.com. He also
Ingrid Lehmann is the former director of the United Nations Information Service in Vienna and currently teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Salzburg, Austria. In her 25-year career with the United Nations, Lehmann also served as director of the U.N.’s Information Offices in Washington, D.C. and Athens, Greece. She worked in
James W. Carey is the CBS Professor of International Journalism in the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University and adjunct professor at Union Theological Seminary, both in New York City. He was dean of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from l979 to l992. Prior to that, he held
Cornelia Dean was the science editor of the New York Times from January 1997 through June 2003. She was responsible for coverage of science, health and medical news in the daily paper and in the weekly Science Times section. She also writes occasionally for the paper, usually on environmental issues. Before becoming science editor, she
Ted Gup has been a journalist for 25 years and is currently the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA, which traced fifty years of CIA history through the lives and deaths of covert operatives
Regina Lawrence is associate professor of political science in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, where she is director of the Northwest Communication Research Group. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, teaches courses on political communication, public opinion, and public law, and specializes in research analyzing
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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