Alex Jones

Alex S. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has been director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2000. Jones is also a lecturer at the school, occupying the Laurence M. Lombard Chair in the Press and Public Policy.^[1]

Jones wrote about the press for The New York Times from 1983 until 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.^[2] He is the author, with his late wife 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. In August 2009, Jones's third book, Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy, will be released.

From 1995 until 1997 he was host of NPR's "On the Media," and from 1996 until 2003 he was executive editor and host of PBS's "Media Matters." Jones 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.

Jones is a member of the Council on the Future of Media.

Jones' family owns The Greenville Sun in Greeneville, Tennessee.

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