Tom Rosenstiel

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Tom Rosenstiel is the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a research organization that specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press. PEJ is non partisan, non ideological, and non political. Formerly affiliated with the Columbia School of Journalism, it separated from Columbia University in 2006 and joined the Pew Research Center, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a private foundation. He is a professor of Journalism Studies at the University of Missouri.

A graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia School of Journalism, Rosenstiel served for more than 20 years as a media critic and political correspondent with the Los Angeles Times, as a reporter for muckraking political columnist Jack Anderson, and with Newsweek Magazine, where he served as chief congressional correspondent.

[edit] Books on journalism

Rosenstiel, Tom (1993). Strange Bedfellows: How TV and the Presidential Candidates Changes American Politics, 1992 (Hyperion Press)
Rosenstiel, Tom and Bill Kovach (1999). Warp Speed: America in The Age of Mixed Media (Century Foundation).
Rosenstiel, Tom and Bill Kovach (2001; 2nd edition 2007). Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (Crown Publishing). A textbook used in schools of journalism, Elements of Journalism was the winner of the 2002 Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, as well as the Society of Professional Journalist's Sigma Delta Chi Award for research in journalism, and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism from Penn State University. It has been translated into 18 languages.
Rosenstiel, Tom and Amy S. Mitchell, editors (2003). Thinking Clearly: Cases in Journalistic Decision Making. (Columbia University Press).
Rosenstiel, Tom and Marion Just, Todd Belt, Atiba Pertilla, Walter Dean and Dante Chinni, (2007) "We Interrupt This Newscast: How to Improve Local TV and Win Ratings, Too (Cambridge University Press)