Elizabeth Stein is a doctoral student in political science at UCLA. Her dissertation is titled Leading the Way: The Media and the Struggle for Democracy. Stein has worked in corporate public relations, sports marketing and as a freelance writer and editor. In 2004-2005, she conducted fieldwork in Brazil and Chile as a Fulbright scholar. Stein received her […]
William Kristol, Lecturer in Public Policy, is an analyst for the Fox News Channel and has been editor of the Weekly Standard since its founding in 1995. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future (from 1993 to 1995), where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. He served as
Mark McKinnon, chief media advisor to President George W. Bush during the 2000 and 2004 elections, is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. He is an award-winning media producer and communications strategist who has served as principal media advisor for corporate and political campaigns in the United States, Latin America and Africa. McKinnon directed the
Allan M. Siegal completed his career with the New York Times in 2006 after more than 45 years of service. Upon his retirement, he was the Times‘ assistant managing editor and standards editor. In response to the Times‘ 2003 Jayson Blair scandal, Mr. Siegal headed an investigative committee that recommended measures to prevent a recurrence. He also directed a
William Powers is the media critic for National Journal magazine, a weekly in Washington, D.C. He was previously a staff writer for The Washington Post, a columnist for The New Republic and a U.S. Senate aide. His writing has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. He is two-time winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award
Jill Carroll is a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor. From October 2003 through May 2004, Ms. Carroll lived in Iraq freelancing for various publications and covering daily news for Ansa, an Italian newswire. She returned to Baghdad in January 2005 and began working for the Christian Science Monitor. Before obtaining her current position, Ms. Carroll worked
Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The American Prospect, where she covers electoral politics and blogs for the magazine’s group blog, Tapped. She was previously a senior writer and news editor at City Paper, Washington D.C.’s alternative weekly newspaper. In 2004-2005, Garance was a Security and Liberty Post-9/11 fellow with the University of Southern California’s Institute for Justice and
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Cristine Russell is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written about science and medicine for more than three decades. She was formerly a national science reporter for the Washington Post and, earlier, the Washington Star. She is vice-president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, a past president of the National Association of Science Writers, and
Robert Picard, Hamrin Professor of Media Economics and director of the Media Management and Transformation Center, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden. His research interests are economic operations of media markets, strategies of media firms, and government policies affecting economic aspects of media. Picard is the author of 20 books, including The Economics and
Charles Lewis is the president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism, in Washington, and co-author of five books, including the bestseller, The Buying of the President, 2004. He founded (and served 15 years as executive director) the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative reporting organization. From 1977 to 1988, he did investigative reporting at ABC
Kimberly Gross is an assistant professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. Her research and teaching interests include public opinion, media effects, and media coverage of minority groups. She is co-author of a
Daniel Okrent completed his term as the first public editor of the New York Times in May 2005. He was for many years an editorial executive at Time Inc., serving variously as managing editor of Life, corporate editor of new media, and corporate editor-at-large. Okrent was founding editor of New England Monthly, where he twice consecutively won the National Magazine Award
John S. Carroll is the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Shorenstein Center. He has been the editor of three newspapers: the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Lexington Herald-Leader. In 1963 he became a reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Early in his career at the Baltimore Sun, Carroll was posted to Vietnam, the
D. Sunshine Hillygus is an assistant professor of government at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Arkansas. Her research and teaching interests include American voting behavior, campaigns and elections, and information technology and society. Hillygus’s research has been published in the American
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Judy Woodruff is a broadcast journalist who has covered politics and breaking news for over three decades at three major networks — NBC, PBS and CNN. Woodruff left working full time at CNN in June 2005 to pursue longer-form journalism opportunities and will continue as a consultant and occasional contributor to the cable network. For
Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (ret.) is a joint fellow with the Shorenstein Center and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. General Ryan has supervised U.S. government security programs with various foreign militaries and served in Germany, Russia and Korea. He has participated in security negotiations at the national level and facilitated cooperative programs
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Zhengrong Hu is director of the National Center for Radio and Television Studies and is a professor at the Communication University of China. He earned his Ph.D. in communication from Renmin University. His research interests are in theories of communication, radio and television broadcasting, media policy, political economy of communication and new media. Mr. Hu
Diane Francis is editor-at-large at the National Post in Canada and a broadcaster with Rogers Media. She was editor and a director of the Financial Post, forerunner of the National Post. She has been a columnist and investigative journalist for the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun publishing chain, Southam Newspaper chain, and Maclean’s magazine, among others. She writes three columns weekly on a range of subjects and
David Anable was president of the International Center for Journalists from 1997 to 2004 and is a former managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He writes columns for a group of newspapers in Virginia, as well as occasional pieces for the Monitor, where he was a reporter, bureau chief, foreign editor, and managing editor, between 1965 and 1988.
Roger Rosenblatt writes essays, books and plays. His pieces for Time magazine have won two George Polk Awards, awards from the Overseas Press Club, the American Bar Association, and others. His television essays for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS have won the Peabody and the Emmy. He wrote a column for The Washington
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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