Bill Mitchell is a member of the faculty at the Poynter Institute where he leads a new program exploring emerging economic models for news. He was director of electronic publishing for the San Jose Mercury News and held positions at Time and the Detroit Free Press. While at the Shorenstein Center as a Sagan Fellow, […]
Steve Williams is executive editor for the BBC’s global channels in the Asia Pacific region extending from Iran through Central Asia to Afghanistan, China and Vietnam. He oversaw the launch of BBC’s Persian TV. While researching as a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he focused on the media’s impact on foreign policy.
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James O’Shea served as editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times from November 2006 to January 2008. Previously O’Shea worked for the Chicago Tribune in many leadership roles, culminating in his position as managing editor (2001–2006). O’Shea joined the Chicago Tribune in 1979 from the Des Moines Register, where he had been a reporter, editor and Washington correspondent. In
Mitchell Stephens is a professor of journalism and mass communications at New York University. He is the author of A History of News, an extended history of journalism that has been translated into four languages and was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year.” His latest book, The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word, a
Michael Traugott is a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, where he looks at the mass media and its impact on American politics. This includes research on the use of the media by candidates in their campaigns and its impact on voters, as well as the ways that campaigns are covered and the
Maralee Schwartz spent more than two decades as a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. She began her career as a journalist at the Washington Monthly. She joined the Washington Post in 1979 as a researcher on the national staff, eventually becoming a political reporter. During the 1992 general election, Schwartz moved onto the assignment desk, editing political stories, and
Sandra Nyaira was a reporter for the Association of Zimbabwe Journalists. In addition to writing for the Association, Nyaira’s work has appeared in the London Times, the Guardian and the British Journalism Review. Prior to joining the Association, Nyaira was the political editor of the now-banned Zimbabwean independent newspaper, the Daily News. As political editor, she oversaw award-winning coverage
Rory O’Connor is an author, blogger, journalist and filmmaker. He is co-founder and president of the media firm Globalvision, and oversees the nonprofit media-watchdog site MediaChannel.org. He has served as co-executive producer of the broadcast newsmagazines South Africa Now and Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television. He is the author of the recently published Shock Jocks: Hate
Eric Pooley is a contributor for Time magazine. Pooley has been managing editor of Fortune, editor of Time Europe, and in 2001–2 was national editor of Time. Before that, he was Time‘s chief political correspondent. In 1996, as Time‘s White House correspondent, Pooley won the Gerald Ford Prize for Excellence in Reporting for his coverage of the Clinton administration. Previously, Pooley had a
Edward Schumacher-Matos is the CEO and founder of Rumbo Newspapers and Meximerica Media, a chain of four Spanish-language dailies in Texas. Schumacher-Matos began his career as a reporter at the Patriot Ledger before moving on to the Philadelphia Inquirer. For nearly a decade afterwards, Schumacher-Matos worked at the New York Times, first as the New York City economic-development reporter and later
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Philip J. Hilts, an author and journalist, was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He is the author of Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business and One Hundred Years of Regulation. The book received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for the best science and technology book published in 2006. His book Smokescreen: The Truth
J.H. Snider is a scholar who has written extensively about new technology and democracy. He is the president of iSolon.org and an affiliated researcher at Columbia University’s Institute for Tele-Information. He was research director for the New America Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank. His books include Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: How Local TV
Elizabeth Becker, an author and journalist, was the Edelman Family Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. Becker has had a long and distinguished journalism career, from her time as a reporter at the Washington Post (1972–80), senior foreign editor at National Public Radio (1992–95), and as a reporter for The New York Times (1995–2005). She has been a war
Richard Davis is a professor of political science at Brigham Young University. He is the author or co-author of many books on media and politics including Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process; Politics Online: Blogs, Chatrooms, and Discussion Groups in American Democracy; and The Web of Politics: The Internet’s Impact on the American Political System. In
Tom Fiedler is recently retired after a 35-year career at The Miami Herald. During those years, Fiedler worked as an investigative reporter, political columnist, editorial-page editor and as the Herald‘s executive editor from 2001–2007. Having covered nearly every aspect of government, Fiedler has won several awards throughout his career. In 1988, he received the Society of Professional Journalists’ top
Nguyễn Anh Tuấn is chairman of the VietnamNet Media Group and the editor-in-chief of VietnamNet. Nguyen is also the founder of the VASC Software and Media Company and VietNet, the first Internet service provider in Vietnam to provide email and Web access. Nguyen began his career as a faculty member at the University of Dalat
Robin Sproul, vice president and Washington bureau chief of ABC News, was a Kalb Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. Responsible for the editorial supervision and management of the network’s bureau, Sproul oversees news coverage of all Washington beats and serves as the network’s liaison to the federal government on news policy matters. Sproul has earned
Geoffrey Cowan is a professor at the University of Southern California, occupying the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the Annenberg School for Communication. Cowan also directs USC’s Center on Communication Leadership and, from 1996 until July 2007, was the dean of the Annenberg School. Before joining USC, Cowan served under President Clinton as director
Linda Douglass, longtime ABC and CBS political correspondent, was the first Kalb Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. Douglass retired from ABC News in December 2005, where she worked for nine years as a correspondent in the Washington, D.C., bureau. She became the network’s congressional correspondent in 1998 and was named chief Capitol Hill correspondent in
Ellen Goodman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Center. Goodman began her career as a researcher for Newsweek magazine, before becoming a reporter for the Detroit Free Press in 1965. She joined the Boston Globe as a reporter in 1967 and became a full-time columnist in 1974. A 1963 graduate of Radcliffe College, Goodman
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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