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 […]
Rick Kaplan is currently executive producer of “The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.” He was a broadcast journalist for more than 30 years. As president of CNN-US (1997–2000), he was responsible for all news and programming at the CNN News Group. Kaplan galvanized CNN’s ability to provide extensive and up-to-the-minute live coverage and analysis
Kevin G. Barnhurst is associate professor of communication at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His book The Form of News, A History (New York: The Guilford Press) with John Nerone, won the Covert Award for media history in 2001, and his Seeing the Newspaper (New York: St. Martin’s Press), won a Mellett Citation for media
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Ramindar Singh is currently president of IN Mumbai TV. He has had a career in journalism spanning three decades as an investigative reporter, war correspondent, aviation and defense affairs analyst, political commentator and editor of several Indian newspapers. Until August 2001 he was editor of the Sunday Times of India (circulation 2 million +). From
Jeff Madrick is the editor of Challenge magazine, an economics columnist at The New York Times and a regular economics contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of The End of Affluence (Random House, 1995) and Taking America (Bantam,1987), both New York Times notable books of the year. Business Week
Hans Bergström was the chief editor of Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden’s leading quality newspaper with around one million daily readers. Before his 14 years at Dagens Nyheter, he was editor-in-chief of the largest regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda, Örebro. He left his operational position at Dagens Nyheter last autumn in order to do research and write
Trudy Lieberman, a journalist for more than 30 years, is director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union. She continues to write about health policy for Consumer Reports, is a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and a contributor to The Nation. She has won numerous awards and honors including two
David Nyhan was a columnist and associate editor at the Boston Globe. Nyhan covered nine presidential elections in a career that took him to every state and twenty foreign countries. He was a frequent commentator on politics for CNN, C-SPAN, New England Cable News and public television in Boston. Prior to joining the Globe, Nyhan
Rick Kaplan is currently executive producer of “The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.” He was the Visiting Lecturer in the Lombard Chair during the spring 2001 semester at the Shorenstein Center. He has been a broadcast journalist for more than 30 years. As president of CNN-US (1997–2000), he was responsible for all news and
Michael Waldman is director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He was director of speechwriting at the White House from 1995–1999. He has crafted four State of the Union Addresses, two Inaugural Addresses and Clinton’s acceptance speech for the 1996 Democratic convention. Waldman has written or edited nearly 2,000 presidential
Deborah Mathis is a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. She was previously the national correspondent for Gannett News Service. A veteran political reporter, she was responsible for reporting on all national news stories dealing with the White House and the administration. Previously, a columnist for The Clarion-Ledger, Mathis wrote a twice-weekly column on
Nelson Traquina is a professor of communication science at the New University of Lisbon and president of the Center for Research in Media and Journalism Lisbon. After obtaining degrees in International Studies in the United States, he worked for United Press International before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Paris V. He is the
Jason Deparle is the general assignment correspondent for The New York Times. Since joining The Times in 1989, DeParle has regularly covered anti-poverty policy. Reporting from Washington, he wrote about the debate leading to the 1996 law that abolished entitlement to cash assistance and created time limits and work requirements. Since then he has written
Julie Hall was the senior media advisor of the Active Community Unit, initiated by Prime Minister Blair, which developed new partnerships with the media to help ensure government policies promoting community involvement in the diverse communities in the United Kingdom. A former political correspondent for ITN and Granada television, she has presented and produced a
John Gage is a partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He was the chief researcher and director of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems. Gage was responsible for Sun’s relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy and for alliances
Alexey Pushkov is the author, anchor and director of Postscript, a daily TV analytical program at TV-Centre (3rd channel of the Russian national TV). He is also a political columnist for Nezavissimaya Gazeta. From 1995–98, he was director of public and media relations and director of foreign affairs at Russian Public TV (ORT). Pushkov has
Stanley Renshon is professor of political science at the City University of New York, coordinator of its program in Political Psychology and a certified psychoanalyst. He was a postdoctoral fellow in psychology and politics at Yale. He earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He did his graduate work in clinical
Susan Moeller is director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda and professor at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She was the director of the Journalism Program at Brandeis University and an assistant professor in the American Studies Department. She has a Ph.D. in the history of
Peter Molnar graduated from the Faculty of Law at Lorand Eotvos University (ELTE) in Budapest in 1987, and earned an M.A. in aesthetics from ELTE in 1994. From 1990–98, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament and served on the committees on culture and press, as well as on the committee on the constitution,
Lynette Lithgow was born in Trinidad but spent most of her life in the UK. Much of her career was with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), having presented television news programs for the BBC regionally, nationally and internationally. She also worked for Granada Television in Manchester and Tyne-Tees Television in Newcastle. Her overseas postings were
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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