Alex Jones is the Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy and Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. For nearly ten years, he covered the press for The New York Times, earning a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting, and is the co-author of books covering newspaper empires run by the Bingham family of Kentucky and the Ochs and Sulzberger families in New York. Jones has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, a host of National Public Radio's On the Media and is currently the host and executive editor of PBS's Media Matters. An authority on media issues, he has appeared on numerous television news programs and is a frequent contributor to articles about the media for both foreign and domestic publications. Jones is a graduate of Washington & Lee University.