Staff Bio

Judson Lance Jeffries’s articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Science, Western Journal of Black Studies, and PS Political Science and Politics. In the past, Jeffries has held fellowships and taught at Harvard, University Tufts University, and Indiana University.

With over 100 publications, Holli Semetko’s research on influence, strategy and campaigns in international contexts extends from the US, UK, Germany, Turkey and the European Union (EU), to India, China and South Korea.

Jay Rosen has been on the faculty at New York University since 1986. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For?, which is about the rise of the civic journalism movement. Rosen wrote and spoke frequently about civic journalism (also called public journalism) over a ten-year period, 1989-99. From 1993 to

Raul Ramirez worked as a reporter for The Miami Herald, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He immersed himself in his stories, for example working as a farm laborer in Michigan to report on conditions in the fields for The Wall Street Journal.

Melinda Quintos de Jesus was among the women journalists who wrote critically of the Marcos regime as a columnist in the Bulletin Today. She wrote on the excesses of the regime, cases of disappearances and warrantless arrests and detention, and killings of activists during latter years of Marcos administration.

Nik Gowing was a main presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented ‘The Hub with Nik Gowing’, BBC World Debates, Dateline London, plus location coverage of major global stories. He is now Founder and Co-Director of Thinking the Unthinkable – an independent project helping leaders understand the threats