Alex S. Jones is one of the nation's most frequently-cited authorities on media issues. He covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. For the past eight years he has been Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and is the Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is co-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. He has been host of National Public Radio's On The Media, and host and executive editor of PBS's Media Matters.

• PROLOGUE: THE CRISIS ; 1. The Iron Core ; 2. Media and Democracy ; 3. Objectivity's Last Stand ; 4. Media Ethics- The Painful Balance ; 5. My Family's Story ; 6. The Curious History of the News Business ; 7. The Fragile First Amendment ; 8. The Newspaper Question ; 9. The New News Media ; 10. Preserving The Core

Alex Jones brings a special perspective to the decline of the American newspaper industry...this is a good read...It is all fascinating stuff

Alex S. Jones is one of the nation's most frequently-cited authorities on media issues. He covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. For the past eight years he has been Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and is the Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is co-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. He has been host of National Public Radio's On The Media, and host and executive editor of PBS's Media Matters.

• PROLOGUE: THE CRISIS ; 1. The Iron Core ; 2. Media and Democracy ; 3. Objectivity's Last Stand ; 4. Media Ethics- The Painful Balance ; 5. My Family's Story ; 6. The Curious History of the News Business ; 7. The Fragile First Amendment ; 8. The Newspaper Question ; 9. The New News Media ; 10. Preserving The Core

Alex Jones brings a special perspective to the decline of the American newspaper industry...this is a good read...It is all fascinating stuff

Alex S. Jones is one of the nation's most frequently-cited authorities on media issues. He covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. For the past eight years he has been Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and is the Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is co-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. He has been host of National Public Radio's On The Media, and host and executive editor of PBS's Media Matters.

• PROLOGUE: THE CRISIS ; 1. The Iron Core ; 2. Media and Democracy ; 3. Objectivity's Last Stand ; 4. Media Ethics- The Painful Balance ; 5. My Family's Story ; 6. The Curious History of the News Business ; 7. The Fragile First Amendment ; 8. The Newspaper Question ; 9. The New News Media ; 10. Preserving The Core

Alex Jones brings a special perspective to the decline of the American newspaper industry...this is a good read...It is all fascinating stuff