Tom Fiedler

Office Address
Taubman-262
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 113
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-9761
Email: Tom_Fiedler@ksg.harvard.edu
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Tom Fiedler, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy, and Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, is recently retired after a thirty-four-year career at The Miami Herald. During those years, Fiedler worked as an investigative reporter, political columnist, editorial-page editor and as the Herald's executive editor from 2001-2007. Having covered nearly every aspect of government, Fiedler has won several awards throughout his career. In 1988, he received the Society of Professional Journalists' top award for his coverage of the presidential election. In 1991, TheMiami Herald received a Pulitzer Prize for a series that included Fiedler's investigative report into a religious cult's political tactics. Fiedler's research at the Shorenstein Center, where he is a Goldsmith Fellow, will examine the impact of new media on the 2008 presidential campaign. He is principal author of The Almanac of Florida Politics and was a correspondent for The Economist magazine from 1984 to 1999. Fiedler holds an MS in Journalism from Boston University (1971) and a BS in Engineering from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (1968).