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Thomas J. Kent
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-621-1615
tjk17@columbia.edu
Biography:
Thomas Kent is deputy managing editor and standards editor of the Associated Press. He is former chief of the AP bureau in Moscow and former international editor of the AP. Kent has a particular interest in the Russian and Soviet press, the tradecraft of international reporting and in new forms of modern-day journalism.
Kent has served with the AP as correspondent in Sydney, Australia; correspondent for NATO and the European Union in Brussels; correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow; chief of AP operations in Iran during the Iranian revolution; deputy news editor and news editor of AP's World Service Division in New York. As standards editor, he oversees issues of ethics and credibility in AP operations worldwide and speaks internationally on journalistic ethics and newsroom management. He has served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in international reporting and has been a board member of the Overseas Press Club of New York.
Kent was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, holds a degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University and speaks Russian, French and Spanish. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1996, and since 2001 at SIPA and the Harriman Institute.