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The Press Under Fire
Speaker bios
Kenneth Neil Cukier
Kenneth Neil Cukier is a fellow at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government, writing a book on the
Internet and international relations. Previously, he
was the technology editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal
in Hong Kong, and the European editor of Red Herring
magazine in London. Earlier, he was a senior editor
in Paris for Communications Week International. From
1992 to 1996 he worked at the International Herald Tribune.
His work on the public-policy dimensions of technology
has been cited in government reports and entered into
Congressional testimony. In 2000, he was selected by
The Journal of Financial Reporters for its annual "Bluechip
Newsroom" award. In 2001, he was named an honorary
fellow of the Center for Global Communications at the
International University of Japan for his coverage of
Internet governance issues.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank is a senior writer at The Wall Street Journal
in New York. He has covered a wide variety of news stories,
having served as Southeast Asia and Europe correspondent.
Masood Haider
Masood Haider is UN bureau chief of Dawn, one of Pakistan's
leading daily newspapers, and is one of the most senior
South Asian journalists in the U.S.
Judith Matloff
Judith Matloff is a journalist, author and teacher.
Her book, Fragments of a Forgotten War (1997), is about
Angolan Civil War. She has served as bureau chief, Moscow,
Africa, The Christian Science Monitor. Editor in London,
Reuters; correspondent, Southern Africa, Lisbon, London,
OPEC, Spain, Reuters; contributor, The New York Times,
The Economist, The Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Columbia Journalism
Review, The Times (London). Matloff's awards and honors
include The Christian Science Monitor's Godsell Award
for articles about the fall of Zairian dictator Mobutu
Sese Seko, 1998; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation Grant to write a book on Angola, 1995-96;
Fulbright Fellowship for historical research in Mexico,
1981-82; Radcliffe's Josephine Murray Fellowship for
research in Brazil and Mexico, 1979-80; Radcliffe's
Agassiz Scholar for academic distinction, 1980-81.
Kavita Menon
Kavita Menon is the Asia program coordinator of the
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the leading
organization looking after journalists' safety and rights
throughout the world. During her tenure there since
1998, she has helped bring attention to some of the
most important cases of press freedom in recent years,
including the arrest of Pakistani editor Najam Sethi
and the kidnapping and execution of Daniel Pearl. Before
joining CPJ, she spent a year traveling in India as
a free-lance journalist. In New York, she had worked
as a copy editor for People magazine and as an assistant
producer for the National Public Radio program "On
the Media." She holds a B.A. from the University
of California, Berkeley (where she was news director
of KLAX radio) and an M.S. from Columbia University's
Graduate School of Journalism. Menon has written for
On The Issues and Ms. magazines and has produced radio
features for Monitor Radio, WNYC, and WBAI. More information
on Kavita is available here.
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