Aneesh Chopra is the co-founder of Hunch Analytics, an open data and analytics company serving the healthcare and education sectors. Chopra was appointed as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer by President Obama in 2009. In this role, he was charged with promoting innovation to address urgent national priorities. In 2012 he left the White […]
Nick Sinai was most recently U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, where he led President Obama’s Open Data Initiatives to increase access to data and encourage innovation and economic growth. Sinai also led the Open Government Initiative to foster federal government transparency, and helped start and grow the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which brings entrepreneurs and
Matthew Hindman is an associate professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University. His 2009 book, The Myth of Digital Democracy, won the 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize as well as the Donald McGannon Award. He has published on topics including online campaigning, “open source” politics, and the online public sphere. Hindman was a Javits
John M. Geddes is the former managing editor of The New York Times. Prior to his 2013 retirement he had also held the roles of deputy managing editor and business editor. Before joining The Times in 1994, he worked in various capacities at BIS Strategic Decisions, Friday Holdings, spent 13 years as an editor and reporter with The Wall Street Journal and
Celestine Bohlen is a columnist at the International New York Times and teaches journalism at Sciences-Po in Paris, France. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Moscow, Budapest and Rome, and was also a culture reporter based in New York. Additionally, she has worked for Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Trenton Times, The Washington Star and The Lowell Sun.
Yavuz Baydar is a Turkish journalist, blogger and co-founder of P24, the Platform for Independent Media. Baydar has been active both in print and audiovisual media for 35 years. Based in Istanbul, he writes regular opinion columns for Today’s Zaman with specific focus on domestic and foreign policy issues. His opinion articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Jill Dougherty worked for CNN from 1983 until December 2013, most recently as foreign affairs correspondent based in Washington, D.C. She also served as White House correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, U.S. affairs editor for CNN International, managing editor for CNN International Asia Pacific and Midwest correspondent based in Chicago. Prior to CNN, Dougherty was correspondent for
Robert Lenzner has been senior editor, national editor and contributing editor of Forbes Media for the past 22 years. His blog, “The Croesus Chronicles,” is about the disparity in wealth, Wall Street, public policy controversies at the Federal Reserve and the financial world. Prior to Forbes, Lenzner was New York correspondent for The Boston Globe and Wall Street
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
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.
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.
Peter D. Hart is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy for the Fall of 2013. He is one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States and will be teaching a Kennedy School course called “Polling in the Real World: Using Survey Research to Win Elections
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
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
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
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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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
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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