BILL KOVACH is the founding director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists and its programs. He has been a journalist and writer for 50 years. In that time Kovach was chief of The New York Times Washington Bureau, served as editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal-Constitution and curator of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University. Kovach is co-author with Tom Rosenstiel of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (Crown 2001). Kovach and Rosenstiel also co-authored Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media (Century Press in 1999), which earned a Sigma Delta Chi award for research in journalism in 2000. Kovach was awarded the 2000 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism by Harvard University. He was the 2003 recipient of the Richard M. Clurman Award for Mentoring and has also been honored with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, which was accompanied by an honorary doctorate from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. In 2004, Kovach was named to The John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Among his other board affiliations, Kovach serves on the board of directors of the Center for Public Integrity and on the advisory boards of the Native American Journalists Foundation, The Right Question Project and the Encyclopedia of the Appalachians. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad.