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Who's behind the news?
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Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland - Professor of the Practice and Eleanor Merrill Scholar on the Future of Journalism
American Press Institute - former executive director
Project for Excellence in Journalism (Pew Research Center) - founder and former director
Committee of Concerned Journalists - co-founder
Los Angeles Times - former press critic
Tom Rosenstiel is an author, journalist, researcher and academic who teaches at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism as Professor of the Practice and the Eleanor Merrill Scholar on the Future of Journalism, a position he has held since 2021. A graduate of Oberlin College, he worked as a journalist for more than two decades, serving as press critic at the Los Angeles Times for a decade and as chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek. He founded and for 16 years directed the Project for Excellence in Journalism, one of the original projects of the Pew Research Center, and co-founded the Committee of Concerned Journalists. From 2013 to 2021 he was executive director of the American Press Institute, where he co-founded the Media Insight Project with AP-NORC and led the Table Stakes program to help metro newspapers adapt to digital change. He is the author of twelve books, including four novels, and, with Bill Kovach, of The Elements of Journalism, a text used in most U.S. journalism schools and translated into more than 25 languages. He is also a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago and a nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Website: merrill.umd.edu
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Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Tom Rosenstiel, Head of American Press Institute, Joins Merrill College
NORC at the University of Chicago. Expert profile
National Press Foundation. Board profile
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