The "Respected Journalists" Connected With Al Franken's Shoenstein Center

THE SHORENSTEIN CENTER ADVISORY BOARD

Hushang Ansary
Julian Bond
David S. Broder
Frank Carlucci
Richard E. Cavanagh
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Elizabeth Drew
Doris Graber
Carole Shorenstein Hays
Stephen Hess
Matina Horner
Ellen Hume
Albert R. Hunt
Walter Isaacson
Tom Johnson
Marion Just
Bernard Kalb
Marvin Kalb
Ted Koppel
James M. Lombard
Jonathan Moore
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Gary Orren
Thomas E. Patterson
Nelson W. Polsby
Robert Putnam
Dan Rather
A.M. Rosenthal
William Ruder
Frederick Schauer
Daniel Schorr
Michael Schudson
Bernard Shaw
Douglas W. Shorenstein
Walter H. Shorenstein
Senator Alan K. Simpson
Dr. Frank Stanton
Benjamin B. Taylor
Linda Wertheimer

FELLOWS FALL 2003

James W.Carey is the CBS Professor of International Journalism in the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University and adjunct professor at Union Theological Seminary, both in New York City. He was dean of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from l979 to l992. Prior to that, he held the George H. Gallup Chair at the University of Iowa. He has published two books: Media, Myth and Narratives: Television and the Press and Communication as Culture. The University of Minnesota Press published James Carey: A Critical Reader in 1997. At Columbia, he teaches the ethics course required of all students. His research is on the history of journalism and international media. As a Shorenstein fellow, he will work on a short history of journalism for journalists.

Cornelia Dean was 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 worked in the newspaper’s Washington bureau as deputy Washington editor. Her portfolio was domestic policy. She began her newspaper career at the Providence Journal. Her book Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches was published in 1999 by Columbia University Press. Ms. Dean has taught seminars and courses at the University of Rhode Island, Vassar, and the Columbia School of Journalism, and has spoken to a wide variety of student, journalism and scientific organizations. She is a member of the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute for Environmental and Marine Reporting and in July 2003, will join the corporation of Brown University, her alma mater. While a Shorenstein Fellow, Ms. Dean will work on a book about the misuse of scientific information in American life.

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 killed in the line of duty. Book of Honor was named 2001 Book of the Year by investigative reporters and editors and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lucas Book Prize. A former staff writer for The Washington Post and Time Magazine, he has also written for National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Mother Jones, Salon and GQ. Gup was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting and recipient of the George Polk Award. He grew up in Canton, Ohio and studied classics at Brandeis University and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He was a Fulbright Scholar in China, a grantee of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Pepper Pike, Ohio with his wife, Peggy, and sons, David, 13, and Matthew, 12. His outside interests include fly-fishing, running, and billiards. While at the Shorenstein Center, Mr. Gup will examine press coverage of the CIA.

Tomas Klvana’s experience spans journalism, government service and academia. Recently, he serverd as the spokesman and policy adviser to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus (March-September 2003). Before joining the government, Klvana 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 in charge of international coverage and international cooperation. In 2000-01, Klvana was a senior international affairs commentator for another leading Czech daily paper, Mlada fronta Dnes. He covered major international events such as the U.S. presidential elections in 2000 and the G-8 Summit 2001 in Genoa, Italy. From 2000 to 2003, Klvana was a frequent guest analyst of international news for Czech Television and Czech Radio. From 2001 to 2003, Klvana taught a semester-length course on Media, Culture and Globalization at the New York University Center in Prague. Between 1997 and 2000, he was a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. He holds a Ph. D. in speech-communication from the University of Minnesota and an M.A. in journalism from Charles University in Prague. Mr. Klvana will focus on the interplay of politics, media and civic society in the Czech Republic. His paper will investigate how these forces influence the quality of the emerged democracy in a post-communist country in a period of transition.

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 media coverage of public policy issues. She is the author of The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality and has published articles analyzing media coverage of environmental issues, welfare reform, and the recent spate of shootings in public schools. Lawrence’s research at the Shorenstein Center will focus on the tendency of news coverage to “individualize” public health problems by highlighting the personal choices that contribute to these problems and often leaving their policy context out of focus. Combining case studies of news coverage of juvenile substance abuse, school violence, childhood obesity, antibiotic resistance, the anthrax scare of 2001, and other health problems, she will analyze how the news reflects and reinforces the predominant American cultural value of individualism and a typically American difficulty in seeing the collective and institutional dimensions of our problems.

FORMER FELLOWS & VISITING FACULTY

Shorenstein Center Fellows

Elie Abel, writer (Spring 1992)

Kiku Adatto, Harvard University (1988-1990)

Adeyinka Adeyemi, Nigerian journalist (Fall 1993)

Gautam Adhikari, National Endowment for Democracy (1987)

Dean Alger, Public affairs consultant, writer (Spring 1993)

Elena Androunas, Moscow University (Spring 1996)

C. Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School (Fall 1992)

Kevin G. Barnhurst, University of Illinois, Chicago (Fall 2001)

Stephen Bates, Wilson Quarterly (Fall 1999)

Ed Baumeister, Center for International Journalists (Spring 1993)

Lisa Bennett, Human Rights Campaign Foundation (Spring 1998)

Thomas Benson, Pennsylvania State University (Spring 1999)

Sara Bentivegna, University of Rome, La Sapienza (Fall 1997)

Hans Bergstrom, Dagens Nyheter (Spring 2001)

Sissela Bok, Harvard University (Spring 1993)

William M. Boyd, II, (Fall 1994)

Dieter Buhl, Die Zeit (retired) (Spring 1990)

Bette Jean Bullert, scholar and filmmaker (Fall 1999)

Bernice Buresh, journalist and author (1988-89)

Fyodor Burlatsky, Russian journalist (Fall 1992)

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, University of Minnesota (Spring 1992)

Kim Campbell, Visiting Professor of Practice, Kennedy School (Fall 1994)

Alison Carper, former reporter New York Newsday (Spring 1994)

James Carroll, The Boston Globe (Spring 1997)

Connie Chung (Spring 1997)

Carol B. Conaway, College of the Holy Cross (Fall 1994)

Tim Cooke, BBC, Northern Ireland (Spring 1998)

Ann Crigler, University of Southern California (1991-92)

John Dancy, former NBC News correspondent (Fall 1996)

Nicholas Daniloff, Northeastern University School of Journalism (1988-89)

Glyn Davis, Griffith University (1988-89)

Melinda Quintos de Jesus, Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility, The Philipines (Spring 1994)

Michael X. Delli Carpini, The Pew Charitable Trusts (Fall 1995)

Jason DeParle, The New York Times (Fall 2000)

Ronnie Dugger, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, Harvard Divinity School (Spring 1996)

Dayton Duncan, author and filmmaker, (1988-89)

Barrie Dunsmore, former correspondent, ABC News (Fall 1995)

Roza Eftekhari, Zanan magazine (Fall 2002)

John Ellis, Senior Fellow, The Combating Terrorism Center, West Point (1990-1991)

Patricia Ellis, Women’s Foreign Policy Group (Fall 1989)

James Endersby, University of Missouri (Spring 1996)

David Farrell, University of Manchester (Spring 1997)

William John Fox, consultant and lecturer (Spring 1995)

Murray Fromson, journalist (Spring 2000)

John Gage, Sun Microsystems (Fall 2000)

Loren Ghiglione, dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University (1988-89)

Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill University (Spring 2000)

Eytan Gilboa, Bar-Ilan University (Spring 2002)

Andrew Glass, The Hill (Fall 2001)

Michael Goldfarb, National Public Radio, foreign desk (Spring 1999)

Nik Gowing, BBC World (Spring 1994)

Sergei Grigoriev, Northeastern University (Spring 1992)

Charlotte Grimes, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University (Spring 1998)

Julie Hall, former Senior Media Advisor, Active Community Unit, Great Britain (Fall 2000)

Jack Hamilton, Manship School of Mass Communication (Fall 2002).

William Hammond, U.S. Army Center of Military History (Spring 1999)

Elizabeth C. Hanson, University of Connecticut, Storrs (Fall 1994)

Sanjoy Hazarika, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India (Fall 1993)

Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker (1987-88)

Yoshiki Hidaka, TV Tokyo Network/NHK Japan (Spring 1992)

Godfrey Hodgson, Reuters Foundation Programme (1988-89)

Christina Holtz-Bacha, University of Mainz (Fall 1999)

Clark Hoyt, Knight Ridder (Fall 1986)

Stephen J. Hutcheon, The Sydney Morning Herald (Fall 1997)

Katsiaryna Ivanova, Minsk State Linguistic University (Fall 1998)

Sean Henry Jacobs, Cape Town Democracy Centre (Fall 1998)

Linda D. Jakobson, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Spring 1990)

Judson Lance Jeffries, Purdue University (Spring 1995)

Marion Just, Wellesley College (1988-89)

Rick Kaplan, ABC News (Fall 2001)

Zachary Karabell, Fred Alger Management, Inc. (Fall 1997)

Thomas Keenan, Bard College (Spring 1998)

Don Kellermann, formerly, Pew Research Center (Fall 1995)

Paul Kellstedt, Brown University (Fall 1999)

Paul Kelly, The Australian (Spring 2002)

Kathleen E. Kendall, State University of New York, Albany (Fall 1997)

Montague Kern, Rutgers University (Spring 1992)

Beth Knobel, CBS News-Moscow Bureau (1989-1991)

Martha Kumar, Towson State University (Fall 1998)

Richard Lambert, formerly of the Financial Times (Fall 2002)

William Lanouette, U.S. General Accounting Office (Fall 1988)

Jim Lederman, consultant (Fall 1989)

Xiguang Li, Tsinghua University (Spring 1999)

Trudy Lieberman, Consumers Union (Spring 2001)

Lynette Lithgow, journalist (Spring 2000)
(Lynette Lithgow died on December 11, 2001 in Trinidad)

Steven Livingston, George Washington University (Spring 1996)

Jeff Madrick, Challenge Magazine and The New York Times (Spring 2001)

Paolo Mancini, University of Perugia (Fall 1995)

Bernard Margueritte, International Presss Institute (Fall 1993)

Deborah Mathis, Gannett News Service (Fall 2000-Spring 2001)

James McEnteer, scholar/writer (Spring 1990)

Denis McQuail, University of Southampton (Spring 1996)

Alexander Merkushev, Associated Press Television News, Moscow (Fall 1990)

Michael Milburn, University of Massachusetts, Boston (Spring 1993)

Maimouna Mills, journalist, Senegal (Spring 1995)

Jonathan Mirsky, free-lance journalist (Fall 1999)

Warren Mitofsky, Mitofsky International (Spring 1995)

Claude M.P. Moisy, former chairman and general manager of Agence France-Presse (Spring 1995)

Peter Molnar (Spring 2000)

Susan Moeller, University of Maryland (Spring 2000)

Henry Morgenthau, author (Fall 1993)

Richard Morin, The Washington Post (Fall 1999)

Moshe Negbi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Fall 1997)

Jack Nelson, formerly of the Los Angeles Times (Fall 2002)

William Newill, Associated Press (Fall 1994)

David Nyhan, formerly, The Boston Globe (Spring 2001)

Richard Parker, Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center (Spring 1993)

Barbara Pfetsch, Universitat Hohenheim (Spring 1997)

Alina Pippidi-Mungiu, journalist and political author (Spring 1999)

Sylvia Poggioli, National Public Radio (Fall 1990)

Jorge Quiroga, WCVB-TV Boston (Fall 1993)

Raul Ramirez, KQED-FM San Francisco (Spring 1994)

Jonathan Randal, journalist (Fall 1998)

Henry Raymont, free-lance journalist (1990-91)

Stanley Renshon, City University of New York (Spring 2000)

Andrew Robertson, California Institute of Technology (Spring 1991)

Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Bennington College (Fall 1993)

Jay Rosen, New York University (Spring 1994)

Bernard Roshco, U.S. Department of State, retired (1992)

Michael Russo, St. Mary’s College (Fall 1990)

Santiago Sanchez Gonzalez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid (Fall 1997)

Margaret Scammell, University of Liverpool (Spring 1996)

Jonathan Schell, The Nation (Fall 2002)

Holli Semetko, University of Amsterdam (Spring 1994)

Colin Seymour-Ure, University of Kent, UK (Spring 1995)

Nachman Shai, United Jewish Communities/Israel (Fall 1996)

Jacqueline Sharkey, University of Arizona (Fall 1995)

Sergei Sholokhov, Producer Radio/TV, St. Petersburg (Fall 1991)

Alexis Sinduhije, director, African Public Radio, Burundi (Fall 1997)

Ramindar Singh, IndusInd Entertainment, Ltd. (Fall 2001)

Jim Sleeper, writer (Fall 1998)

Erna Smith, San Francisco State University (Fall 1992)

Geoffrey Smith, author (Fall 1994)

Richard Sobel, scholar (Fall 1996)

Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas at Austin (Fall 1996)

Pearl Stewart, journalist (Fall 1995)

Matt Storin, University of Notre Dame (Spring 2002)

Nelson Traquina, New University of Lisbon and Center for Research in Media and Journalism (Fall 2000)

Jeff Trimble, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Fall 1991)

Phillip Van Niekerk, Mail & Guardian, South Africa (Spring 1989)

Ingrid Volkmer, New School University (Spring 2002)

Sophia Wang, scholar (Spring 1992)

Stephen Ward, University of British Columbia (Spring 1998)

John J. Watkins, University of Arkansas School of Law (Spring 1990)

Fred Wertheimer, Democracy 21 (Fall 1996)

William Wheatley, NBC News (Spring 1991)

Tom Wicker, author and journalist (Spring 1993)

Betty Anne Williams, Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications; Director, Journalism & Women Symposium (Fall 1992)

Linda Williams, University of Maryland (1989-91)

Betty Winfield, University of Missouri (Spring 1991)

Gadi Wolfsfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Fall 1992)

Lewis Wolfson, American University (Spring 1990)

David A. Yepsen, The Des Moines Register (Fall 1989)

Zinovy Yuriev, Russian author and journalist (Spring 1989)

Shorenstein Center Visiting Faculty

C. Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School (Visiting Lombard Professor, Spring 1993)

W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington (Visiting Lombard Professor, Fall 1999)

Richard Berke, The New York Times (Visiting Adjunct Lecturer, Spring 2001)

William M. Boyd, II, Poynter Institute for Media Studies (Visiting Lombard Lecturer, Spring 1995)

Timothy Cook, Louisiana State University (Visiting Lombard Professor, Spring 1990)

Wolfgang Donsbach, Dresden University of Technology (Visiting Lombard Professor, Spring 1999)

Robert Entman, North Carolina State University (Visiting Lombard Professor, Fall 1997)

Tom Goldstein, formerly, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (Visiting Lombard Professor, Spring 1994)

Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago (Visiting Lombard Professor, Spring 1996)

Lawrence K. Grossman, former president, NBC News and PBS (Visiting Stanton Lecturer, 1987-88)

James T. Hamilton, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University (Visiting Associate Professor in the Kalb Chair on Global Communications, Fall 2002)

Sonia Jarvis, Board of Directors, The Center for Responsive Politics (Visiting Lombard Lecturer, Fall 1993)

Marion Just, Wellesley College (Visiting Professor of Public Policy, 1993-94)

Rick Kaplan, ABC News (Visiting Lombard Lecturer, Spring 2001)

Anthony Lewis, formerly of The New York Times (Visiting Lombard Lecturer, Spring 2002)

Judith Lichtenberg, University of Maryland (Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 1988)

Scott M. Matheson Jr., University of Utah College of Law (Visiting Stanton Associate Professor, 1989-90)

Ellen Mickiewicz, Duke University (Visiting Lombard Professor, Fall 2001)

William L. Nash, Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventive Action (Visiting Lombard Lecturer, Fall 1998)

W. Russell Neuman, (Visiting Lombard Professor, Fall 1996)

Thomas E. Patterson, Kennedy School of Government (Visiting Lombard Professor, Fall 1991)

Warren Phillips, former chairman and C.E.O., Dow Jones & Co. (Visiting Lombard Lecturer, Fall 1992)

Nelson W. Polsby, University of California, Berkeley (Visiting Stanton Professor, 1986-87)

Neil Postman, New York University (Visiting Lombard Professor, Spring 1991)

Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego (Visiting Lombard Professor, 1988)

Senator Alan K. Simpson (Visiting Lombard Lecturer, Spring 1997)

James D. Squires, former E.V.P. and editor, Chicago Tribune (Visiting Lombard Lecturer Fall 1990)

What pisses me off is that the little runt was given fourteen research assistants to help him do his "work" (goofing on Ashcroft?)! I don't think that even someone like Kennedy mythologist Doris Kearns Goodwin uses fourteen researchers. No wonder this gnome was begging Ashcroft not to hold anything against Harvard. Because they were fully culpable!

Rick Kaplan... the guy who arranged (in spring 1992) the suck-up interview of Bubba by Don Imus a week before the NY primary. Kaplan knew Imus would toss soft-balls and make Clinton out to be a "good old boy" to insure his victory in NY -- the first major primary victory for Clinton. It was all down-hill after that. Whitewater inquiries were quickly doused -- only to revive a year later.

At the time, I believe Rick Kaplan was Executive Producer of Ted Koppel's Nightline -- so he was a "big time contact" for Imus who was sucking up to anybody like that who could pull in the big politicians and media insiders. Kaplan was about to make the move to Executive Producer for ABC's World News Tonight (I think this is the right chronology), so again, Imus was happy to get the interview with Clinton. Clinton needed help in NY -- what better than to get 15 minutes of mush on the 2nd most listened to talk radio show in the NY metropolitan area (behind Howard Stern). Clinton was dodging Whitewater and Gennifer Flowers stories (these had seeped into the NH primary and led to the "soft-ball" 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft [shouldn't that interview have gone to a more noted confrontational political interviewer?]), so Kaplan set it up.

2 years later, in the famously gross Washington Correspondents Dinner, when Imus gave the "key-note", he admitted that he may have been the key to getting Clinton elected -- and Clinton acknowledged it himself. They may have both said it somewhat in jest, but it was probably a fact: without a victory in NY, Clinton doesn't move on with the "come-back kid" momentum.

So thank Imus for 8 years of debauchery in the White House. Just a little service he provided.

When is the last time Harvard did anything other than coast on his name? JPL, affiliated with CalTech, and MIT, affiliated with Woods Hole, and Univ. of Chicago, affiliated with Fermi Lab, dominate high tech now.

The other major disciplines are hotly contested by well over 50 major universities. Al Franken may out-Cynth CORNELL UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR Cynthia McKinney, but the PC Derby is not the area of excellence that America's foremost university shoud persue.

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