Tom Stites
Consulting Editor, Center for Public Integrity
48-2 Kent St.
Newburyport MA 01950
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http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/printer_485.shtml
Tom Stites is a writer, editor and entrepreneur with a passion for strengthening journalism and democracy.
As an editor he has supervised reporting that has won an array of major journalism awards including the Pulitzer
Prize; as an entrepreneur he has been the founding publisher of two print magazines, a newsletter, and an on-line
magazine. His writings and speeches on strengthening democracy and on journalism have won a respectful following.
Positions he has held include managing editor of The Kansas City Times; national correspondent, national editor,
and associate managing editor for project reporting at The Chicago Tribune, and night national editor of The New York Times. Most recently he served for a decade as the editor and publisher of UU World, the national magazine of the Unitarian Universalist religious denomination.
Currently Tom is a consulting editor for the Center for Public Integrity as well as the publisher of http://www.Politicpia.com. He is working on a book about power and the conscience.
READ MORE ABOUT TOM STITES/Address to Media Giraffe Project summit, June 2006/BLOG reaction to June 2006 MGP talk.