FOTP 2013 Full Report

WNYC, and WBAI, and previously worked as assistant producer of NPR’s On the Media. Sheearned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Sheserved as an Asia-Pacific adviser for Freedom of the Press.Devra C. Moehler is assistant professor at the Annenberg School of Communication, Universityof Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. Herresearch focuses on comparative political communication, democratization, partisan informationsources, and political behavior, with a focus on Africa. She is the author of the book DistrustingDemocrats: Outcomes of Participatory Constitution Making. Previously, she was an assistantprofessor of government at Cornell University and a fellow at the Harvard Academy ofInternational and Area Studies. In addition, she served as a Democracy Fellow at the U.S.Agency for International Development, where she provided technical assistance in the design ofexperimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations of democracy and governanceassistance programs. She served as a sub-Saharan Africa adviser for Freedom of the Press.Robert Orttung is assistant director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studiesat George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, president of theResource Security Institute, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Security Studies at the SwissFederal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is managing editor of Demokratizatsiya:The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization and a coeditor of the Russian Analytical Digest andthe Caucasus Analytical Digest. He received a PhD in political science from the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles. He served as a Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia adviser for Freedomof the Press.Bettina Peters is director of development at the Thomson Foundation, a leader in internationalmedia support, journalism, and management training since 1962. Before joining the ThomsonFoundation, she was the director of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), anetwork of organizations involved in media assistance programs around the world. Until 2007,she worked as director of programs at the European Journalism Center (EJC), in charge of itsinternational journalism training program. Previously, she worked for 11 years at theInternational Federation of Journalists headquarters in Brussels. She holds degrees in politicalscience and journalism from the University of Hamburg, and has edited several publications onjournalism, such as the GFMD’s Media Matters II and the EJC’s handbook on civic journalism.She served as a Western Europe adviser for Freedom of the Press.Lawrence Pintak is the founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication atWashington State University (WSU). An award-winning former CBS News Middle Eastcorrespondent, he is the author of The New Arab Journalist and several other books onAmerica’s relationship with the Muslim world and the role of the media in shaping globalperceptions and government policy. Prior to WSU, he served as director of the Kamal AdhamCenter for Journalism Training and Research at the American University in Cairo. His workregularly appears in outlets including the New York Times, ForeignPolicy.com, and CNN.com,and he is frequently interviewed by international media. Pintak holds a PhD in Islamic studiesfrom the University of Wales. He served as a Middle East and North Africa adviser for Freedomof the Press.14