Center for War, Peace and the News Media, Department of Journalism, Boston University

Center for War, Peace and the News Media, Department of Journalism, Boston University
418 Lafayette St., Suite 554
New York, NY 10003
212-998-7960
212-995-4143 fax
www.bu.edu/globalbeat/

CWPM is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization supporting journalists and news organizations in their efforts to sustain an informed and engaged citizenry. The Center provides analysis and resources for journalists covering world affairs through its Global Beat and Global Beat Syndicate, seminars, training, and other services.

Robert Manoff, Director

Areas of expertise: media and conflict, resources for journalists, media coverage of national security affairs.

Before co-founding the Center in 1985, Professor Manoff served as Managing Editor of Harper's magazine and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review among other editorial positions. An award-winning journalist, he has published widely on the media and international and ethnic conflict and the media, nuclear issues and international security. His byline has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Journal of Communication, International Herald Tribune, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Journalism Quarterly, among other publications in the US and abroad. He is coeditor of Reading the News, which was named one of the leading media books of the decade. He has taught at Brown, Columbia, and MIT.

John J. Schulz, Editor, Global Beat Syndicate
Dean, College of Communication, Boston University

Since January 2002, John Schulz has been editor-in-chief of the Center's Global Beat Syndicate, providing op-ed and opinion pieces to the 550 foreign and domestic newspapers which use the Knight-Ridder-Tribune News Syndicate Service. Before becoming a Boston University professor in 1995, he was an award-winning reporter, foreign correspondent and senior news executive at the Voice of America (1971-92), and, for three years (1992-95), was editor of Arms Control Today magazine in Washington, D.C. At Boston University, Schulz is Dean of the College of Communication and Professor of International Communication. In 1962, Schulz received his BA in journalism from the University of Montana, and from 1977-79 attended Oxford University, where he was awarded the M.Phil. degree (1979) and doctorate (1981) in international. In 1985-86 he attended the National War College in Washington, D.C. and was a Professor of National Security Policy at NWC from 1989-91. He has published and lectured extensively and appeared frequently on nationwide or regional radio and TV shows after the events of September 11, 2001. In 1967-68, Schulz flew 275 combat missions as an F-100 fighter pilot in the USAF in Vietnam. His 23 combat decorations include the Silver Star and three Distinguished Flying Crosses. For questions or general comments on the Syndicate or requests for future pieces, contact him at (617) 353-3488 or (preferred) via email.