Diane McWhorter is the author of Carry Me Home, a history of the civil rights revolution in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. It won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Currently, she is working on a book about Wernher von Braun and the Third Reich missile pioneers who were brought to Alabama after the war and […]
Steve Oney is a former Nieman Fellow and author of the book, And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. He worked for many years as a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. He has also contributed articles to many publications including Esquire, Playboy, Los Angeles Magazine and The New York Times
Lee Aitken was the political and general news editor at Thomson Reuters, steering feature coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign. She was a consulting editor at The Daily Beast/Newsweek (2008-11) and was Politics Editor at Bloomberg News. At the Shorenstein Center, Aitken examined press coverage of campaign spending.
Michael Copps served two terms as a member of the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 through 2011 and was Acting Chairman in 2009. Copps served as Deputy Assistant Secretary, and then Assistant Secretary for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Clinton administration. His research will focus on media policy-making and journalists.
Joe Klein has been the political columnist for Time magazine since 2003. Previously, Klein served as the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker and as a columnist for Newsweek. He is the author of the novels Primary Colors and The Running Mate. While at the Shorenstein Center, he researched the media coverage of veterans.
Stefan Theil is a Berlin-based journalist and editor. Over a 20-year career at Newsweek, most recently as European Economics Editor, he reported from over 20 countries and wrote two dozen cover stories. At the Shorenstein Center, his research project examined how U.S. and European media covered the global economic crisis.
Peter Hamby is a national political reporter for CNN, based in the Washington bureau. He reports on campaigns and politics across multiple platforms for CNN’s domestic and international television networks and covers digital politics for CNN.com. He covered the 2012 presidential race, with a focus on the Republican primary contest and Mitt Romney’s campaign. During the
Melinda Henneberger is a political writer for The Washington Post, where she writes a twice-weekly column and anchors the She the People blog. She was a correspondent for The New York Times in the Washington and Rome bureaus, and was the founder and editor-in-chief of Politics Daily, an online political news magazine. She has also written for publications
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John Huey was the editor-in-chief of Time Inc. from 2006 until December 2012, overseeing the editorial content of all Time Inc.’s U.S. magazines, websites, and other digital content including Time, People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and Real Simple. He has held senior executive positions at Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he worked at the Atlanta Constitution before joining the Dallas bureau of The
Martin Nisenholtz is a senior advisor for The New York Times Company and an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia Journalism School. He was senior vice president of Digital Operations for The New York Times Company from 2005-2012. He was the founding leader for nytimes.com in 1995 and chief executive of New York Times Digital
Paul Sagan was president and chief executive officer of Akamai Technologies from 2005 until December 2012. He joined the company in 1998 as COO. In 1981, he was a news writer at WCBS-TV and was named news director in 1987. In 1991, he joined Time Warner, designed and launched NY 1 News, was president and
Michael Slaby was Chief Integration and Innovation Officer for the Obama campaign in 2012 and Chief Technology Officer for the campaign in 2008. He has also worked as executive vice president and digital global practice chair at Edelman and chief technology strategist at TomorrowVentures. At the Shorenstein Center, Mr. Slaby pursued a project about the
Joshua Partlow is a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. Between 2009 and 2012, he was the paper’s Kabul bureau chief. Before going to Afghanistan, he worked as the Post’s correspondent in South America, based in Rio de Janeiro, and as a correspondent in Iraq. Partlow joined The Washington Post in 2003. He was on the financial desk and later worked
Kathleen Reen is a vice-president at Internews, an international non-profit organization that seeks to empower local media worldwide. She leads the development, design and implementation of their media and information programs across Asia, global internet initiatives, and environmental programs. Reen has a background as a journalist and documentary film producer in Eastern and Southern Europe
Matthew Nisbet is an associate professor of communication and director of the Climate Shift Project at American University. He has written over 50 studies, book chapters and monographs examining the communication dynamics of policymaking and public affairs, focusing on science, the environment and public health. Nisbet has been named a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert
Tara McKelvey is a correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. McKelvey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 in General Nonfiction. She is the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War and has been a contributor to two other books, New
Nina Easton is a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is Fortune magazine’s Washington columnist and senior editor, covering politics and economics in the nation’s capital. She is a regular panelist on “Fox News Sunday” and “Special Report,” and has provided analysis for numerous other shows, including “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “This Week,” and “Charlie
Nazila Fathi is a journalist, translator and commentator on Iran. She reported out of Iran for nearly two decades until 2009 when she was forced to leave the country because of government threats against her. She was based in Tehran from 2001 for The New York Times until she left, during a time when she wrote over 2,000
H.D.S. (David) Greenway is a contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune and GlobalPost. He was the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe, and before that its national editor, and foreign editor tasked with setting up the Globe‘s foreign news bureaus. As a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, he was posted to Jerusalem, Saigon and Hong Kong; and for Time
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Ron Suskind is the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence. One of the country’s most celebrated non-fiction writers, Suskind was The Wall Street Journal‘s senior national affairs writer from 1993 to 2000, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and wrote A Hope in the Unseen, a critically-acclaimed 1998 bestseller which followed inner city honor students in their struggles to
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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