Jonathan Sanders is a veteran international reporter, telecommunication innovator, and long-time CBS News Moscow Correspondent who teaches in the Communications and Media Department at Fordham University. In a career where he has helped find suitable application for cutting edge technologies at research universities, recently Professor Sanders has helped pioneer international broadcasting over internet protocols as senior anchor and reporter for www.icastnews.com <http://www.icastnews.com> .
For four decades, his work has focused on/ freedom of expression/ and the consequences of repression. Sanders covered five wars in the Caucuses, urban insurrection in Vilnius, Riga, Moscow, Grozny, Warsaw and Paris. His reporting on the Beslan school siege, although effectively banned in Russia, won him the MediaSoiuz “Golden Verb” award for outstanding foreign reporting in 2005. His broadcast, “Hostage” a 48 Hours Special, CBS won the Edward R. Murrow Award of the Overseas Press Club and he received the 2006 Emmy award for coverage and reporting on Beslan.
Combining practical experience and academic training (he holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and was a Fulbright scholar), Sanders has served as Ferris Professor of Journalism of Princeton University. One of the world’s leading scholars of Russian & Soviet visual culture, primarily photography and television, he is the author of two books, _Russia 1917:The Unpublished Revolution (New York: Abbeville Press 1989) and [with Heidi Hollinger, an introduction by Mikhail Gorbachev], The Russians Emerge (New York: Abbeville Press, 2002) as well as numerous articles (for instance, “Father Knows Best Meets Gunsmoke: Russia’s New Television World’” _Television Quarterly_ Fall 2001; “Propaganda in The Propaganda State” http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/prop/inv <http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/prop/inv> ). He has written widely on a diverse range of subjects ranging from “Drugs and Revolution” to “Comrade X Was Wrong” to “Moscow Works: The Foreman-in Chief’s Story”.
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