A legal commentator for Israel Public Radio and TV, a Burundian journalist who has covered the region's wars, and an Australian correspondent devoted to freedom-of-the-press issues since the Hong Kong handover are among six Fall Fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.

In addition, Robert M. Entman, Visiting Professor in the Laurence M. Lombard Chair, will teach a course on Race and the Media. The course will explore the media's impact on race relations and public policy as well as the impact on the social and political relationships of blacks and whites. Entman is a professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University.

The Fall Fellows and visiting faculty will introduce themselves and discuss their research at a panel discussion on Monday, Sept. 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Taubman Building (access from Eliot Street), Room 275, at the Kennedy School. The public is invited.

"Few problems are more important to our society than race, in which the press plays a critical and significant role. Professor Entman is a superb scholar and an expert in this field," said Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center. "In addition, I am happy to welcome six exceptional Fall Fellows from Australia, Italy, Burundi, Israel, and the United States. Each of the fellows will explore different aspects of the intersection of press and politics. Our faculty and students look forward to their contributions."

The 1997 Fall Fellows are:

Sara Bentivegna is associate professor of theory and techniques of mass communication in the faculty of sociology and professor of political communication at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Bentivegna has counseled major media networks and Italian governmental agencies on mass media and political systems. She is the author of Communicating Politics in the Media System and Mediating Reality: Mass Media, Political System and Public Opinion. She has also published articles in major Italian specialized journals. Bentivegna will examine the new media and its impact on political campaigns, journalism, and citizens.

Stephen Hutcheon joined the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in 1982 as a cub reporter. He spent several years writing about everything from computers to finance and from politics to crime before ending up on the world news desk, becoming deputy foreign editor and then foreign editor in 1991. He led the team of reporters that won the Walkley Award, Australia's highest newspaper award, for coverage of the Russian coup. Hutcheon chose to return to reporting and in 1994 was posted to Beijing as the newspaper's correspondent. His research will focus on the freedom of the press in Hong Kong after 1997.

Zachary Karabell spent the past year as a visiting assistant professor at Dartmouth College and as a researcher on the Kennedy School's Visions of Governance in the 21st Century project. He has written widely on U.S. foreign policy in the Third World, and his book, Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, will be published in the fall of 1998. He has also written a critique of academia in the age of universal higher education, Whose College Is It Anyway? The Tug of War Over American Universities, to be published next year. He writes regularly for The Boston Globe and The Village Voice. Karabell will examine

the rise and fall of televised political conventions and the implications for future presidential elections.

Kathleen E. Kendall is associate professor of communication at the University of Albany, State University of New York. She writes about how the media construct the messages of political candidates, and strategic communication problems of candidates, particularly in presidential primary campaigns. Kendall has published Presidential Campaign Discourse: Strategic Communication Problems. She is a consulting editor of the journals Communication Quarterly, Southern Communication Journal, and Rhetoric and Public Affairs. Her research project will be a comparison of communication patterns in the presidential primaries from 1912 to 1996.

Moshe Negbi is the legal commentator for Israel Public Radio and TV, and anchors a weekly radio program dealing with legal, constitutional, and human rights issues in the news. He is a columnist for the daily Maariv and a contributing editor of the biweekly Jerusalem Report. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a senior news editor and covered the Supreme Court of Israel for Israel Radio. Negbi is a senior lecturer on media law and ethics and related topics at the department of journalism at Hebrew University. He has published several books on freedom of the press in Israel, the constitutional crisis in Israel, and the involvement of the Israeli Supreme Court in the protection of Palestinian rights in the territories occupied by the Israeli army. Negbi will examine the effect of private censorship on journalistic freedom and ethics.

Alexis Sinduhije is a journalist in Burundi who works at Studio Ijambo, an independent radio production studio in Bujumbura. Studio Ijambo consists of 10 full-time journalists (Hutu and Tutsi correspondents are equally represented) providing programming to the BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP, and to national radio. Sinduhije has covered war in Zaire, Burundi, and Rwanda. From 1993 to 1995, he was the chief news editor for La Semaine, an independent weekly newspaper shut down by the National Army during a military coup. From 1991 to 1993, he was a news reporter for National Radio and Television of Burundi. Sinduhije will write about the struggle for an independent media in a war-torn and ethnically divided military state.

The Fellowship program provides an opportunity for outstanding journalists and scholars to come together to study the interaction of the press and politics. Each Fellow spends one semester at the Shorenstein Center writing a research paper and participating in weekly luncheon and roundtable seminars.

The Laurence M. Lombard Professorship was established by the family and friends of Laurence M. Lombard, a director of the Dow Jones Co. for 28 years, to help build a substantial body of knowledge concerning the interaction of media and politics and their influence on public policy. Visiting Professor Entman, in addition to being a professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, is an adjunct professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina. He teaches courses in mass media, political communication, and telecommunications policy. He previously served on the faculties at Northwestern and Duke universities. He is author of Democracy Without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics, senior author of Diversifying TV and Radio: Politics for Privatization and the Public Interest in Broadcasting, and co-author of Media Power Politics.

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy was established in 1986 to promote greater understanding of the media by public officials, improve coverage by media professionals of government and politics, better anticipate the consequences of public policies that affect the media and the First Amendment, and to increase knowledge about how the media affect our political processes and governmental institutions.