Alex Jones
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Position: Director, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy
Organization: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, MA
Alex S. Jones is a member of the Citizens Advisory Group.
Alex S. Jones is Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in Public Policy and director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is also currently the host and executive editor of PBS's "Media Matters," which explores how-and how well-the news media do their job. Mr. Jones covered the press for the New York Times between 1983 and 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his articles on the collapse of the Bingham family's newspaper empire. In 1991, he co-authored (with his wife and fellow journalist Susan E. Tifft) The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty. In 1992, he left the Times to work on The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times (also co-authored with Ms. Tifft), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Jones was host of National Public Radio's "On The Media." In 1998, Mr. Jones and Ms. Tifft were jointly named Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at Duke University. He is on the advisory boards of the Columbia Journalism Review, the International Center for Journalists, the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and the Center for Strategic International Studies. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.