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Nguyen Anh Tuan, Robin Sproul, Geoffrey Cowan ’64, and Tom Fiedler are the newest recipients of the Shorenstein fellowship, a program dedicated to exploring the influence of the press on politics and public policy that began in 1986 with just one fellow, Clark Hoyt, now the public editor at The New York Times...
...Cowan, whose 11-year tenure as dean of Annenberg School for Communication in California ended in July, the fellowship marks a return to his college stomping grounds. He became interested in journalism as an undergraduate at Harvard where he joined the staff of The Crimson in 1961, writing his first story about those hoping to join the administration of President John F. Kennedy...
...Fiedler, the fellowship represents an opportunity to cast a critical eye on traditional media, where he made his career for 30 years as a reporter at The Miami Herald covering political campaigns. His work at the center will look at the ways new media—including blogs, podcasts, and citizen journalism—are reshaping both politics and political reporting...
...attempted to recruit Leach for a fellowship in the spring, but he ultimately chose to take the position at Princeton, according to Alexander I. Burns ’08, the editor of the Harvard Political Review and member of the IOP’s student advisory committee...
...work was supported by the NewSchools Venture Fund, a philanthropic investment fund started by two venture capitalists and Kim Smith, who launched it as her project when she had a fellowship at the Aspen Institute, of which I am president. For the past three summers, fund members have convened a meeting in Aspen of educational entrepreneurs, and at the July 2006 gathering, they decided to make New Orleans a focus of their involvement. Some were worried initially that the task would be too daunting. I argued that if they were not willing to take on such a challenge, they should...