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Jeffrey Scheuer...
- Writes mainly about politics, media, and history, and is the author of The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left (NY: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999; Routledge NY, 2001). Named an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice, the magazine of research libraries, in 2000. For a summary of the book, please see www.thesoundbitesociety.com or The Television Thing, a 1995 article in Dissent Magazine on which it is based.
- Is the author, most recently, of The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (Routledge NY, 2007). More information on this page.
- Has also written essays, articles, reviews and commentary for Dissent, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, the Gettysburg Review, The Potomac Review, New York History, The New England Review, Hudson Valley Magazine, Private Pilot, and the Swarthmore College Bulletin.
- Has contributed six articles to the Encyclopedia of New York City, and two articles to the Dictionary of American Biography.
- Has also written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Constitution, Christian Science Monitor, and many other major newspapers, including more than 75 book reviews; and for the Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Vineyard Gazette.
- Served as an adjunct instructor in the Dept. of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, Spring 2003, teaching a course in “Media and Ideology.”
- Graduated cum laude from Swarthmore College in 1975, majoring in philosophy; received advanced degrees from the London School of Economics & Political Science (M.Sc., 1977) and from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (M.S.J., 1978), and did graduate work in philosophy at Columbia (1982-1984).
- Has served on the boards of various nonprofit organizations including the Loka Institute, a thinktank studying democratic uses of technology; American Near East Refugee Aid in Washington, D.C. (1999-2003); University Settlement, the first and oldest social settlement in America (1986-1990), see "Legacy of Light: University Settlement's First Century" - New York: University Settlement (1985); and the Chester Upland School of the Arts in Chester, PA (2007- ).
- Is a Series Editor on Democracy and the News, Praeger Publishers, (2005- )
- Is a licensed private pilot with a seaplane rating.
- Has two children
