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 […]
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,
Paul Kellstedt is the author of The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes (Cambridge, 2003), which won the Goldsmith Book Prize, given by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author, with Guy Whitten, of The Fundamentals of Political Science Research (Cambridge, 2009 and 2013), a
Christina Holtz-Bacha has held positions at the University of Munich, the University of Bochum, the University of Minnesota—Minneapolis, and was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center/John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1999. She is co-editor of the German journal Publizistik and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Communication, Journal
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Bette Jean Bullert is a communication scholar, a documentary filmmaker and an oral historian. She received her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Washington in 1995. Since then, she has taught communication and video production as an Assistant Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Penn. In Fall
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Jonathan Mirsky has lectured to the Royal National Defense College, the Institute for International Affairs, and at many universities. In 1989, he was named British newspapers’ International Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the Tiananmen uprising. In 1999, Dr. Mirsky was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard and in 2002 he was the I.F.
Stephen Bates is the author, co-author, or editor of five books, most recently An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press (Yale University Press, 2020), which received the Goldsmith Prize from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. His work has appeared in Journalism and
Xiguang Li had his B.A. in English and American Language and Literature from Nanjing University in 1982. He was an assistant research scientist with the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science (1982-1985). He had his Master of Law in English journalism from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
William Hammond garnered a laudable reputation as a military historian on behalf of the Vietnam branch of the U.S. Army Center of Military History between 1972 and 2001. During that period, he planned, researched and wrote two volumes on the U.S. Army’s relations with the news media during the Vietnam War. His works on military-media
Michael Goldfarb is an American author, journalist and broadcaster. In 2009, he published the book: Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews From the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance.
Alina Pippidi-Mungiu is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research centers on anti-corruption policy and good governance. Mungiu-Pippidi chairs the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) where she managed the FP7 research project ANTICORRP and the Horizon 2020 project DIGIWHIST. Her research projects have resulted in resources like
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As a scholar with a research focus on the White House, Martha Kumar is interested in presidential – press relations, White House communications operations, and presidential transitions. Her book, Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communication Operation, won a 2008 Richard E. Neustadt Award from the presidency section of the American Political Science Association.
Jonathan Randal was a foreign correspondent for numerous publications, including the New York Times and the Washington Post (from 1969-1998). His work as a reporter primarily focused on war zones, including reporting from Vietnam, Eritrea, Iran, and Lebanon. Randal is also the author of four books which variously chronicle and apply his journalism to Middle
Jim Sleeper is an American author and journalist. He was a lecturer in political science at Yale University from 1999 to 2020, teaching undergraduate seminars on American national identity and on journalism, liberalism, and democracy.
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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