Alex S. Jones is one of the nation's most frequently-cited authorities on media issues. As a child, he ran a Linotype machine at The Greeneville Sun, the small newspaper in Tennessee that his family has owned for four generations, and his journalistic values spring from working as a reporter and editor at community newspapers. After a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, he covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. For the past seven years he has been Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics