Alex Jones (journalist)
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- For other persons of the same name, see Alex Jones.
Alex S. Jones is an American journalist, writer, and lecturer. He is the host and executive editor of PBS's "Media Matters" [1], former host of National Public Radio's "On the Media," and Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer and Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. [2]
Jones wrote about the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 [3]. He is the 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, also with Tifft, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award.
He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and sits on the advisory boards of the Columbia Journalism Review, the International Center for Journalists, the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
[edit] References
- ^ Media Matters. PBS.
- ^ Alex Jones profile. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
- ^ Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced (transcript). PBS, Online NewsHour (2006, April 17).
