Neal Gabler is an author, cultural historian, television commentator and teacher. He is the author of a number of best-selling and prize-winning books, including An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood; Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity; Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality; and Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Gabler is […]
Vivek Kundra was appointed as the first United States Chief Information Officer by President Obama and is credited with saving over $3 billion in taxpayer dollars, adopting game-changing technologies in the public sector, strengthening the cybersecurity posture of the nation and launching an open government movement through the data.gov platform, which has been replicated across
Renée Loth was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is a columnist for the Boston Globe and is the newspaper’s former editorial page editor. In that capacity, Loth was the highest-ranking woman at the Globe for nine years. Loth holds a journalism degree from Boston University, where she edited the campus newspaper during the 1970s. She
Frederick “Fritz” Mayer is an associate professor of public policy studies and political science at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. One strand of Mayer’s research focuses on globalization and its effects, with particular emphasis on the labor and environmental effects of economic integration. He is the author of Interpreting NAFTA: The Art and Science of
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Mark McKinnon was a Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. For 30 years, McKinnon has worked as a communications strategist for causes, companies and candidates, including President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Congressman “Good Time” Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong and Bono. He is a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and
Bob Calo is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He co-directs the video storytelling and reporting program there and is currently the executive editor of Richmond Confidential, one of three hyper-local news sites run by the school. In the 20 years before joining the faculty at Berkeley in 2001,
Alexis Gelber was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is a former editor of Newsweek, and supervised award-winning coverage of politics, social issues and international news as the magazine’s national affairs editor, assistant managing editor and the managing editor of Newsweek International. As Director of Special Projects from 2001 to 2008, she created
Neil Lewis was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He was a correspondent with The New York Times from 1985 until his retirement in 2009. He has covered the Justice Department, the State Department and a variety of other assignments, including presidential campaigns, Supreme Court nomination battles and Guantanamo. Before joining The Times, he worked for Reuters
Wajahat S. Khan is a broadcast and online journalist who has produced and anchored for Pakistan’s primary networks: Geo, Dawn and Aaj TV. Khan has also written and edited for Pakistani dailies Dawn and Express Tribune and the periodicals Newsweek Pakistan and The Herald. He was embedded with Pakistan’s ground-forces along some of the world’s most isolated and militarized borders investigating the tactical,
Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Chaired Professor in Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. Scheufele is a former member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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Sandy Rowe was a Knight Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She was editor of The Oregonian in Portland from 1993 until January 2010. Under her leadership, the newspaper won five Pulitzer Prizes including the Gold Medal for Public Service. The National Press Foundation named Rowe the Editor of the Year in 2003. In 2008, Editor & Publisher magazine
Charlie Gibson is a broadcast television anchor and journalist with over 35 years of experience. He covered the White House and Congress, and anchored major ABC News broadcasts through 11 election cycles. He was anchor of World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009 and host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and 1999 to
Tracy Kidder was the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center. He works as a freelance writer and has published articles and essays in various periodicals, including The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly, where he was for many years a contributing editor. He has taught writing at Smith College and Northwestern University. He
Karen Rothmyer‘s introduction to journalism was running a school newspaper in Kenya as a Peace Corps volunteer. That experience led her to decide on journalism as a career. After earning a master’s degree at Columbia, she worked at news organizations including the AP, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday and The Nation, where she was managing editor for nine years.
Deborah Amos, Goldsmith Fellow, covers Iraq on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She returned to NPR after a decade in television news, including ABC’s Nightline and World News Tonight and the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. Prior to her work with ABC News, Amos spent 16 years with NPR, most recently as the London Bureau Chief. Previously she
Steven Guanpeng Dong is director of the Global Journalism Institute (GJI) at Tsinghua University in Beijing. At the GJI, he has worked with Reuters, Xinhua and China Central Television together to host over 20 international workshops and conferences in promoting the professional journalism standard in China. He also holds professorships of political communications at the National
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Gene Gibbons is a founding editor of Stateline.org, a nonprofit nonpartisan online news site. Gibbons was Reuters’ chief White House correspondent from 1985 to 1997, and for 16 years before that a member of the United Press International Washington bureau. He covered Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and in 1992 was a panelist
Peter Maass is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and has reported on conflict situations across the globe, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil and Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, an award-winning memoir about covering the conflict in Bosnia. Maass was a
John G. Geer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, is the author of In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns. While at the Shorenstein Center, Geer examined the news media’s coverage of attack advertising and what role this coverage had in the recent increase in negativity in political campaigns.
Loen Kelley is producer of “Justice,” a 12-part series to be broadcast on PBS this fall. During her 20 years in television with CBS, CNN, CNBC and WGBH, she produced television series, longform documentaries, live daily business news, reality shows and breaking news events. At the Shorenstein Center, her research focused on the evolving roles
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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