Alex S. Jones is one of the nation’s most frequently cited authorities on media issues. He covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
For the past eight years he has been director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and is the Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
He is co-author with Susan E. Tifft of The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty and The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. He has been host of National Public Radio’s On the Media, and host and executive editor of PBS’s Media Matters.
Jones is on the board of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism; International Center for Journalists; Committee of Concerned Journalists; Center for Strategic and International Studies; Harvard Magazine; Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet; the International Communications Forum-America; and the International Institute of Modern Letters.
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