Twelve institutions participate in Journalist’s Resource, a project of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. The research and development arm of the project is based at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Project team:

Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center Director; Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer on the Press and Public Policy. He covered the press for The New York Times from 1983-92 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. His most recent book is Losing the News.

Thomas E. Patterson, Research Director; Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. His book The Vanishing Voter looks at the causes and consequences of electoral participation. His earlier book on the media’s political role, Out of Order, received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication.

Nancy Palmer, Shorenstein Center Executive Director. She has administrative responsibility for the daily operations of the Center. Nancy is editor of the book Terrorism, War, and the Press.

John Wihbey, Managing Editor and Researcher; john_wihbey@hks.harvard.edu. A Columbia Journalism School graduate, he has worked for the Star-Ledger (N.J.) and the NPR-syndicated show On Point, from WBUR. He is a frequent contributor to the Nieman Journalism Lab and Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media. He has also been a lecturer in journalism at Boston University, where has taught foundations of journalism and beat reporting. @wihbey

Leighton W. Klein, Journalist and Editor; leighton_klein@hks.harvard.edu. He joined the project in 2008 after a seven-year stint as an arts editor at the Boston Globe. Prior to that he was senior editor at the Boston Phoenix and managing editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian. His research interests include energy, transportation and cities.

Donna Tremonte, Web developer

Alex Remington, Shorenstein Graduate Researcher
Bakary Seckan, Shorenstein Graduate Researcher
Pratibha Joshi, Shorenstein Graduate Researcher
Chrissie Long, Shorenstein Graduate Researcher
Alexandra Rafel, Shorenstein Graduate Researcher
Cynthia Thaler, Shorenstein Graduate Researcher

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Partner schools:

Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California, Los Angeles

College of Communication, University of Texas
Austin, Texas

College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
New York, N.Y.

Graduate School of Journalism, University of California
Berkeley, California

Medill School — Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Missouri School of Journalism
University of Missouri, Columbia

Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland, College Park

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arizona State University, Tempe