David Nyhan was a columnist and associate editor at the Boston Globe. Nyhan covered nine presidential elections in a career that took him to every state and twenty foreign countries. He was a frequent commentator on politics for CNN, C-SPAN, New England Cable News and public television in Boston. Prior to joining the Globe, Nyhan […]
Rick Kaplan is currently executive producer of “The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.” He was the Visiting Lecturer in the Lombard Chair during the spring 2001 semester at the Shorenstein Center. He has been a broadcast journalist for more than 30 years. As president of CNN-US (1997–2000), he was responsible for all news and
Michael Waldman is director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He was director of speechwriting at the White House from 1995–1999. He has crafted four State of the Union Addresses, two Inaugural Addresses and Clinton’s acceptance speech for the 1996 Democratic convention. Waldman has written or edited nearly 2,000 presidential
Nelson Traquina is a professor of communication science at the New University of Lisbon and president of the Center for Research in Media and Journalism Lisbon. After obtaining degrees in International Studies in the United States, he worked for United Press International before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Paris V. He is the
Deborah Mathis is a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. She was previously the national correspondent for Gannett News Service. A veteran political reporter, she was responsible for reporting on all national news stories dealing with the White House and the administration. Previously, a columnist for The Clarion-Ledger, Mathis wrote a twice-weekly column on
Jason Deparle is the general assignment correspondent for The New York Times. Since joining The Times in 1989, DeParle has regularly covered anti-poverty policy. Reporting from Washington, he wrote about the debate leading to the 1996 law that abolished entitlement to cash assistance and created time limits and work requirements. Since then he has written
John Gage is a partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He was the chief researcher and director of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems. Gage was responsible for Sun’s relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy and for alliances
Julie Hall was the senior media advisor of the Active Community Unit, initiated by Prime Minister Blair, which developed new partnerships with the media to help ensure government policies promoting community involvement in the diverse communities in the United Kingdom. A former political correspondent for ITN and Granada television, she has presented and produced a
Alexey Pushkov is the author, anchor and director of Postscript, a daily TV analytical program at TV-Centre (3rd channel of the Russian national TV). He is also a political columnist for Nezavissimaya Gazeta. From 1995–98, he was director of public and media relations and director of foreign affairs at Russian Public TV (ORT). Pushkov has
Susan Moeller is director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda and professor at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She was the director of the Journalism Program at Brandeis University and an assistant professor in the American Studies Department. She has a Ph.D. in the history of
Stanley Renshon is professor of political science at the City University of New York, coordinator of its program in Political Psychology and a certified psychoanalyst. He was a postdoctoral fellow in psychology and politics at Yale. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He did his graduate work in clinical
Murray Fromson has had a career in journalism and journalism education for the past 50 years. After five years as director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, he stepped down in June 1999 to take a year-long sabbatical to write a memoir about the Cold War. Both
Elisabeth Gidengil is Hiram Mills Professor and director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University. She was educated at the London School of Economics, New York University and McGill University. Her research centers on voting behavior and public opinion in Canada, with a particular interest in gender and representation. She
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Lynette Lithgow was born in Trinidad but spent most of her life in the UK. Much of her career was with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), having presented television news programs for the BBC regionally, nationally and internationally. She also worked for Granada Television in Manchester and Tyne-Tees Television in Newcastle. Her overseas postings were
Peter Molnar graduated from the Faculty of Law at Lorand Eotvos University (ELTE) in Budapest in 1987, and earned an M.A. in aesthetics from ELTE in 1994. From 1990–98, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament and served on the committees on culture and press, as well as on the committee on the constitution,
Bette Jean Bullert is a communication scholar, a documentary filmmaker and an oral historian. She received her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Washington in 1995. Since then, she has taught communication and video production as an Assistant Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Penn. In Fall
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Christina Holtz-Bacha has held positions at the University of Munich, the University of Bochum, the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis, and was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center/John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1999. She is co-editor of the German journal Publizistik and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Communication, Journal
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Paul Kellstedt is the author of The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes (Cambridge, 2003), which won the Goldsmith Book Prize, given by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author, with Guy Whitten, of The Fundamentals of Political Science Research (Cambridge, 2009 and 2013), a
Jonathan Mirsky has lectured to the Royal National Defense College, the Institute for International Affairs, and at many universities. In 1989, he was named British newspapers’ International Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the Tiananmen uprising. In 1999, Dr. Mirsky was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard and in 2002 he was the I.F.
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