Susan E Tifft, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy and Sanford Institue of Public Policy
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Education:
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Masters of Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 1982
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B.A., English Duke University 1973
- Specialties:
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Media and Communications
Journalism
- Research Interests: Media Ethics and Media Ownership
Research: Media ownership and its effects on the news; media ethics; investigative journalism; the intersection of journalism and public policy
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- S.E. Tifft, Hundreds of articles over nine years at TIME magazine
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- S.E. Tifft, Articles
(Other articles in The New Yorker, The New
York Times, TALK, the Chicago Tribune, the
Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine,
Columbia Journalism Review, USA Today,
Nieman Reports, Editor & Publisher, Media
Studies Center Journal, The Los Angeles
Times, News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), Legal
Times of Washington, Working Woman, MORE,
Glamour, Savvy, Executive Female, The
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), and
education policy publications of Scholastic
Publications, Inc..) .
- S.E. Tifft, "Out of the Shadows",
Smithsonian Magazine
(February, 2005) .
- S.E. Tifft & Michael Schudson, American Journalism in Historical Perspective,
in American Institutions of Democracy: The Press
(2005), Oxford University Press .
- S.E. Tifft, Special Interests Corrupt What Is and Isn't News,
op-ed, USA Today
(April, 2004) .
Susan Tifft is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. She is the co-author, with Alex Jones, of The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times (Little Brown, 1999), which won the A.M. Sperber Award for Exceptional Achievement in Writing and Research and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Her first biography, also co-authored with Jones, was The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty, an acclaimed biography of the family behind the Louisville newspapers (Summit Books, 1991). She is currently at work on a book, for Penguin Press, about the longevity revolution and women's unique place in it.
Before becoming a journalist, Tifft was a press secretary for the Federal Election Commission and the 1980 Democratic National Convention, and a speechwriter for the Carter-Mondale campaign. She also served as director of public affairs for the Urban Institute. From 1982 to 1991 she was a national writer and associate editor for TIME Magazine, where she wrote major articles on politics, economics, foreign affairs and education. She has a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She divides her time between Durham, N.C., and her home in Cambridge, Mass.
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