Alex Jones (journalist)

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. [cite web|url=http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Alex_Jones |title=Alex Jones profile |publisher=John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University]

Jones wrote about the press for "The New York Times" from 1983 until 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 [cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june06/pulitzer_4-17.html |date=2006, April 17 |title=Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced (transcript)|publisher=PBS, Online NewsHour] . 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"--which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award.

From 1993 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.

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