mark feldstein
Associate Professor of Media and Public
Affairs
Director, Journalism Oral History Project
Phone: (202) 994-4632
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: feldy@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 411
Courses Taught
SMPA 110, Introduction to News Writing and Reporting
SMPA 111, Advanced News Reporting
SMPA 135, Broadcast News Writing
SMPA 177, Media History
SMPA 250, History of Investigative
Reporting
Selected Works
Recent clippings regarding Jack Anderson and the FBI
"A Muckraking Model: Investigative Reporting Cycles in American History," Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics, v. 11, no. 12 (Spring 2006), pp. 105-120.
"The Journalistic Biography: Methodology, Analysis, Writing," Journalism Studies, (Spring 2006), 470-478.
"A Chilling FBI Fishing Expedition," Washington Post, April 29, 2006, A-17.
"Why You Should Care About Press Freedom," Chicago Tribune, April 23, 2006.
"Leak Riddle: Who's Playing Whom?" Washington Post (July 24, 2005), pp. B-1+.
"The Jailing of a Journalist: Prosecuting the Press for Receiving Stolen Documents," Communication Law and Policy, v.10, no. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 137-177.
"Kissing Cousins: Journalism and Oral History," Oral
History Review, v. 31, no. 1 (winter/spring 2004), cover story,
pp. 1-22.
"Fighting Quakers: The 1950s Battle Between Richard Nixon
and Columnist Drew Pearson," Journalism History, v. 30,
no. 2 (summer 2004), cover story, pp. 76-90.
"Watergate Revisited," American
Journalism Review, v. 26, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 2004), pp. 60-67
"The Last Muckraker," Washington
Post op-ed, July 28, 2004, p. A-18.
Background
For nearly 20 years, Mark Feldstein was on the other
side of the camera as an on-air correspondent, specializing in
investigative reporting at CNN, ABC
News, NBC News, and local television
stations in Phoenix, Tampa, and Washington, D.C.
As an investigative reporter,
he has been beaten up in the U.S., detained and censored by government
authorities in Egypt, and escorted out of the country under armed
guard in Haiti.
Feldstein's work
has won more than 50 journalism awards, including broadcast journalism's most prestigious prizes: two George
Foster Peabody public service awards, the Columbia-DuPont baton
for investigative reporting, the Edward R. Murrow broadcasting
prize, and 9 regional Emmys.
His book Poisoning The Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture, will be published next year by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Feldstein is regularly quoted as a media analyst by The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, C-Span, Al-Jazeera, BBC News, Newsday, The Christian Science Monitor, and dozens of other news outlets throughout the world.
In the nation's capital, he is best known for
his exposes of drug use and corruption by former Washington Mayor
Marion Barry and his administration. His investigative reports
have included subjects as varied as migrant farmworker slavery,
abuses in nursing homes and halfway houses, political corruption,
medical malpractice, social welfare abuses, environmental crimes,
health care fraud, human rights atrocities, and police corruption.
His exposes which have appeared on Nightline, Dateline, World
News Tonight, Today, Headline
News, Inside Politics,
and Good Morning, America, have led to resignations, firings, multi-million
dollar fines, and prison terms.
Feldstein has had extensive first-hand
experience in media law. He has been subpoenaed on numerous occasions
in civil and criminal cases by prosecutors, defendants and plaintiffs.
Feldstein has conducted scholarly research on Branzburg v. Hayes
and grand jury subpoenas of journalists and has provided expert
witness testimony in media litigation. His stories involving grand
jury secrecy during the federal probes of Rep. Dan Rostenkowski
and Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry were cited as precedents
in the Kenneth Starr independent counsel leak investigation. He
has been a plaintiff in First Amendment lawsuits and has used hidden
cameras, ambush interviews, and anonymous sources.
Feldstein has lectured at American
University Law School, Duke, Georgetown, Hofstra Law School, Northeastern, University
of Michigan, University of North Carolina and Washington and Lee
universities as well as to the FBI training academy, State Department,
Justice Department, Customs Service and other law, government,
and journalism organizations.
Feldstein has won top academic awards for his historical
research from the American Journalism Historians Association and
the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
He is also director of George Washington University's Journalism
Oral History Project, which preserves on-line the eyewitness accounts
of Washington reporters who have covered politics and government
in the nation's capital.
He has traveled in more than two dozen countries and lives
in Bethesda, Maryland with his son and daughter.
Education
Ph.D., Journalism and Mass Communication, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.
B.A., Government, Harvard University,
1979.