Shorenstein Fellows Announced

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy announced the names of its six fellows and visiting Laurence M. Lombard professor for the spring on Monday.

These scholars and journalists will spend the semester at the Shorenstein Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government to study the interaction of the media and the government.

They will begin their terms with a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, February 6 at 4:30 p.m. at the Kennedy School.

The new Lombard professor, Doris A. Graber, is a professor of political science and a faculty associate in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she specializes in international law, international relations and political communications.

Graber will also teach a seminar on "Information Management in Public Sector Organizations."

"Professor Graber is an outstanding scholar, a pioneer in the field of press and public opinion," said Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center, in a press release from the Kennedy School.

Elena Androunas, a media consultant with COMCON, a mass communications consulting center in Moscow, was a fellow and professor of journalism at Moscow University for 20 years.

This spring she will examine the transition of the Russian media from an ideological instrument of a socialist society to a free press.

Ronnie Dugger is a journalist and the founding editor of the Texas Observer. At Harvard, he is planning to research the concentration of ownership of the media and its implications for the First Amendment.

James Endersby is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. This spring, his research will focus on political ideology, media consumption and voter choice.

Steven Livingston studies the media and politics and their relation to international affairs as an assistant professor at George Washington University. At Harvard, he will research news coverage of large disasters.

Denis McQuail is a professor of mass communication at the University of Amsterdam and is a founding editor of the European Journal of Communication. He will analyze media accountability, public opinion and public policy.

The sixth fellow will be Margaret Scammell, a lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool who also works as a freelance journalist in Britain.

While she is here, she will examine influences on political campaigning in the United States and Britain

The sixth fellow will be Margaret Scammell, a lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool who also works as a freelance journalist in Britain.

While she is here, she will examine influences on political campaigning in the United States and Britain