Professor
Journalism Studies
Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism
Vice Chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists

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A journalist for more than 20 years, TOM ROSENSTIEL is a former media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine. Rosenstiel is also co-author of the Committee's "Traveling Curriculum," an ongoing education program that since 2001 has trained more than 5,600 journalists in print, TV and online newsrooms nationwide. Among his books, he is the author with Bill Kovach of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (Crown 2001), winner of the 2002 Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, the Society of Professional Journalist Sigma Delta Chi award for research in journalism and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from Penn State. "Elements" is a required text in virtually every journalism school in the country and has been translated into more than 10 languages. He and Kovach are also the authors of Warp Speed: America in The Age of Mixed Media (Century Foundation 1999), which also won the SDX Award for research in journalism. Most recently, he is co-editor of Thinking Clearly: Cases in Journalistic Decision Making (Columbia University Press 2003). Rosenstiel is also the author of Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics 1992, (Hyperion 1993), and his other writings include The Beat Goes On: Clinton's First Year with the Media (a Twentieth Century Fund monograph 1994). His writing also has appeared in such publications as Esquire, The New Republic, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and The Washington Monthly. A former media critic for MSNBC's The News With Brian Williams, he is a frequent commentator on radio and television and in print.