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Phone: (202) 994-2004
Expertise: Media
Janet Steele is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on journalism theory and practice, narrative journalism, and media in the developing world. Her most recent work is on the press in modern Indonesia, and she is a frequent visitor to Jakarta, where she lectures on topics ranging from the role of the press in a democratic society to more specialized courses on narrative journalism. Her book Wars Within: The Story of an Independent Magazine in Soeharto’s Indonesia, a study of Tempo magazine and its relationship to the politics and culture of New Order Indonesia, will be published by Equinox Publishing in June, 2005. She has published articles on media history and criticism in journals such as Indonesia, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Political Communication, Columbia Journalism Review, and The American Journalism Review. A former Fulbright professor in the American Studies program at the University of Indonesia (1997-8), she is particularly interested in the ways in which culture is communicated through the mass media.
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