CURRENT FELLOWS
Ingrid
Lehmann
is the former director of the
United Nations Information Service
in Vienna and
currently teaches in the Department of Communication at
the University of Salzburg, Austria. In her 25-year
career with the United Nations, Lehmann also served as
director of the U.N.'s Information Offices in
Washington, D.C. and Athens, Greece. She worked in the
U.N.'s Department for Disarmament Affairs and in its
peacekeeping missions in Cyprus and Namibia. Lehmann
holds Master's degrees in political science (Berlin) and
history (Minnesota), as well as a doctorate in political
science from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She
was a Fellow at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs in 1993-94 and a research
associate at Yale University's U.N. Studies Program in
1995-96. Lehmann has published a book Peacekeeping
and Public Information - Caught in the Crossfire
(London, 1999). She will compare U.S. and German media
reporting on the U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq in
2002-03.
Rebecca
MacKinnon
was formerly CNN's Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent,
responsible for the global news network's coverage of
Japan. MacKinnon covered major
events in Japan, Korea, Pakistan and the Philippines.
She traveled frequently to South Korea to cover
developments related to the North Korean nuclear
standoff, and visited North Korea five times during
her career at CNN. Previously, MacKinnon served for
more than three years as CNN's Beijing bureau chief,
responsible for the network’s coverage of China. She
joined CNN in Beijing in 1992 as a producer, and began
reporting on-air for CNN in 1996. Before moving to
Beijing to work for CNN, she was a Fulbright scholar in
Taiwan, where she also worked as a freelance journalist
for a number of publications, including Newsweek.
MacKinnon is fluent in Chinese. Originally from Tempe,
Arizona, MacKinnon graduated magna cum from Harvard,
where she majored in government.
Ms. MacKinnon will examine
the issue of whether new technology and new media can be
used to create better journalism.
Seth Mnookin
is working on a book about the Howell Raines era at
The New
York Times and the rapidly changing media
landscape, to be published by Random House in late
2004. Previously, he worked as a senior writer on the
National Affairs staff of Newsweek, where he
covered media, politics, crime, and popular culture. He
wrote Newsweek's cover story on the Jayson Blair
scandal, and authored a weekly online column about the
media titled "Raw Copy." Prior to joining Newsweek,
Mnookin was a senior correspondent for Brill's
Content and Inside.com. He also served as the city
editor of the Forward and as a metro reporter for
The Palm Beach Post, covering topics ranging from
Jewish motorcycle gangs to Boca Raton residents upset at
the amount of pink stucco in their city. Mnookin has
written about music and pop culture for a number of
publications, including The New Yorker,
New York, Details, Spin,
The New York Observer,
Slate, and Salon.com. His writing has appeared in two
anthologies: The Best American Non Required
Reading, 2002
and Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers,
Writers on Tattoos. Mnookin is a graduate of
Harvard College with a B.A. in the history of science.
Narasimhan Ravi
is the editor of The
Hindu, one of India’s leading English-language daily
newspapers with a circulation of 950,000. Mr. Ravi holds
a Master’s degree in economics and a degree in law from
Madras University and has been a journalist with The
Hindu since 1972. In his career as a journalist, he
served as a correspondent, assistant editor, leader
writer, Washington correspondent, deputy editor and
associate editor before taking over as editor in 1991.
In 1993, he received the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award for
excellence in journalism from Prime Minister Narasimha
Rao and he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters
honoris causa by the Venkateswara University. He was
the chairman of the Press Trust of India, India’s
largest news agency, in 1999-2000 and is now a director
on the Board of PTI. He is a member of the executive
committee of the Editors Guild of India, and is also
associated with the International Press Institute and
the Commonwealth Press Union.
Mr. Ravi will
examine the press coverage of the Iraq War across
continents.
Barbie
Zelizer
is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at
the
University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for
Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer has
authored or edited seven books, including the
award-winning Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory
Through the Camera's Eye, Covering the Body: The
Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of
Collective Memory and Journalism After September
11. Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the
Academy and Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime
will be published in 2004. A recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and a Freedom Forum Center Research
Fellowship, Zelizer is also a media critic, whose work
on cultural memory, journalism, and images has appeared
in The Nation, the Jim Lehrer News Hour,
Newsday, and Radio National of Australia. While at
the Center, she will be writing a book on about-to-die
photographs in contemporary U.S. journalism.
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