Cornelia Dean was the science editor of the New York Times from January 1997 through June 2003. She was responsible for coverage of science, health and medical news in the daily paper and in the weekly Science Times section. She also writes occasionally for the paper, usually on environmental issues. Before becoming science editor, she […]
Ted Gup has been a journalist for 25 years and is currently the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA, which traced fifty years of CIA history through the lives and deaths of covert operatives
Regina Lawrence is associate professor of political science in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, where she is director of the Northwest Communication Research Group. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, teaches courses on political communication, public opinion, and public law, and specializes in research analyzing
Tomáš P. Klvaňa‘s experience spans journalism, government service and academia. Recently, he served as the spokesman and policy adviser to the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus (March-September 2003). Before joining the government, Klvaňa worked as the deputy editor-in-chief of Hospodarske noviny, a leading Czech daily newspaper affiliated with the Wall Street Journal and Handelsblatt, where he was
Margie Reedy has been a television journalist for 25 years. For the last seven years, she was the host of “NewsNight,” an hour-long news interview program on New England Cable News. On “NewsNight,” she led nightly debates among experts from a vast array of arenas, including politics, law, and academia on the topical stories that drive
Esteban López-Escobar was born and brought up in Asturias in northern Spain, where he took his first degree in the law school of Oviedo University. He did post-graduate work in law, journalism and mass communication at the University of Navarra (Pamplona). He then received his doctorate in law from the University of Seville where he
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Terence Samuel covers Congress for U.S. News & World Report. Before joining the magazine, Samuel was, for three years, a Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he wrote on a wide range of topics, including congressional politics, urban policy and development, welfare, race and affirmative action. Previously, Samuel spent a decade at the
Michael Tomasky writes a column on politics for New York magazine, where he has been a contributing editor since 1995. Before that, he was a columnist for The Village Voice, and, before that, The New York Observer. He is the author of two books: Left for Dead (Free Press, 1996), about the intellectual collapse of
Al Franken, political satirist, is an Emmy Award–winning television writer and producer, a New York Times bestselling author, and a Grammy-winning comedian. In 1975, Franken was part of the original writing staff that created “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). He remained with SNL until 1980 and returned to the show in 1985. He remained for another
Matthew V. Storin was editor of The Boston Globe from 1993–2001. In a 36-year journalistic career, he also served as deputy managing editor of U.S. News & World Report from 1985–86, editor of The Chicago Sun-Times from 1986–87, editor of the Maine Times from 1988–89, and was managing editor and then executive editor of the
Jack Hamilton is dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and is the Hopkins P. Breazeale LSU Foundation Professor. He is also a commentator on MarketPlace, a weekly public radio program broadcast nationally. He joined LSU after more than 20 years as a journalist. Hamilton has reported for the Milwaukee
Richard Lambert is currently Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. From June 2003 until March 2006, he was on the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England. Lambert was a columnist and commentator with a special interest in Europe, the Atlantic Alliance and globalization. He was editor-in-chief of the Financial Times from 1991
Jack Nelson, former Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has been a journalist for more than 50 years. He served in the Times‘s Washington bureau from 1970 through 2001, including 22 years as Washington bureau chief and four years as chief Washington correspondent. He covered the six presidents and every presidential campaign from
Jonathan Schell, The Nation‘s peace and disarmament correspondent, is also the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute. Formerly a writer and editor with The New Yorker, he has written extensively on the nuclear question. He graduated from Harvard University in 1965. From 1967 until 1987, he was the principal writer of The New
Roza Eftekhari was the senior editor of Zanan magazine, Iran’s first feminist journal. She is a writer, translator and editor. After graduating from Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, she started working on women’s issues in Iran and joined Zanan Magazine. As the senior editor, she has been responsible for the planning and selection of topics, articles
James T. Hamilton, visiting associate professor in the Kalb Chair on Global Communications, is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University. His work focuses on the impact of information provision in media markets and in environmental policy. His book Channeling
Ingrid Volkmer is associate professor at the University of Melbourne Australia and deputy director of the Media and Communications program. She has taught at universities in Germany (Bielefeld and Augsburg), Austria (University of Innsbruck) and was a faculty member at the New School University, New York, where she taught in the Media Management Program. Her
Paul Kelly is the editor-at-large of The Australian and was previously editor-in-chief of The Australian (1991–1996). He is a writer, historian and political analyst. After graduating from Sydney University, he worked in the Prime Minister’s Department in Canberra (1969–71) before transferring to journalism. He served as chief political correspondent and Canberra bureau chief for The
Eytan Gilboa is a professor of international communication and government at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has written extensively on international communication, American-Israeli relations, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His best-known book is American Public Opinion toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. His most recent book, an edited volume on Mass Communication and Conflicts, will be
Anthony Lewis, Visiting Lombard Lecturer, was a columnist for the New York Times from 1969 to 2001. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice. From 1948–1952 he was a deskman in the Sunday Department of The Times. In 1952 he became a reporter for The Washington Daily News. In 1955 he won a Pulitzer Prize for
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