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Tom Fiedler

@BUCOMDEAN

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.

The Web’s Pathway to Accuracy

A British journalist, Donnacha DeLong, took aim at the notion of an egalitarian Web in an article published in a trade union magazine. She ridiculed the notion that a blogger…

Bloggers Push Past the Old Media’s Gatekeepers

From YouTube to The Huffington Post, new media ‘are upending the presidential campaign process and raising questions about journalism's place in it.’

Political Journalists — Writing for Online Publications

Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post has quickly become one of the more successful news and information blog sites, recognized in 2007 that if her army of volunteer bloggers were to…