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.
Clay Shirky is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of Press and Public Policy at the Shorenstein Center. He is a writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an associate teacher at New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. His courses address the
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
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
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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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
Zephyr Teachout is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy, teaching a module on Politics, Money and the Internet. She has clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker, Third Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals; served as the national director of the Sunlight Network; taught at the University of Vermont, Duke University and Fordham University;
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
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
Daniel Okrent is the Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Before his appointment as the first public editor of The New York Times in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, he was editor-at-large at Time Inc.; editor of new media for all Time Inc. publications; and managing editor of
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
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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