Tom Fiedler is dean of Boston University’s College of Communication. A former reporter, columnist and executive editor of The Miami Herald, he was a Shorenstein Center Fellow at Harvard in the fall of 2007, where he wrote a paper about political reporting entitled, "The Road to Wikipolitics: Life and Death of the Modern Presidential Primary b. 1968 — d. 2008." His coverage of the 1988 presidential election won him the top award from the Society of Professional Journalists.