Andrew Glass is a contributing editor at Politico. He has been senior correspondent of the Cox Newspapers since 1997 after serving more than 20 years as the chain’s Washington bureau chief. Shortly after the Cox Washington Bureau was founded in 1974, he joined the staff to cover national politics. Since 1980, he has written a weekly column on national and foreign affairs for the Cox Newspapers which is syndicated by The New York Times News Service. Over the years, he has appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN’s Crossfire and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Glass has covered the White House and Congress for the Washington Post, Newsweek and the former New York Herald Tribune. In 1960, he became a business and financial reporter for the Herald Tribune. Glass was campaign press secretary to the late Sen. Jacob K. Javits of New York. Following the 1968 elections, he became executive assistant to then Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois. In 1970 he returned to journalism as senior editor of National Journal. His research topic at the Shorenstein Center is “The Net Election: Lessons from 2000 and What Comes Next?”
The War on Terrorism Goes Online: Media and Government Response to First Post-Internet Crisis
January 1, 2002
A paper by Andrew J. Glass, fall 2001 fellow, investigates the multifaceted role that the Internet played in the initial phases of the campaign against global terrorist networks. While the parameters of today’s online communications’ systems were in place during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, that relatively brief struggle occurred shortly before the advent of
