Ted Gest Program on Crime and the News Media Email: tgest@sas.upenn.edu Washington Office 720 7th Street, N.W. Third Floor Washington, DC 20001 Tel: 202-448-1717 Fax: 202-628-0080

Since 1998, Ted Gest has been president of Criminal Justice Journalists, a national organization of reporters, writers, and broadcasters who cover criminal justice. He is the author of Crime and Politics: Big Government's Erratic Campaign for Law and Order (2001) a book on anticrime policy in the United States since the late 1960s. Gest was a writer and editor at U.S. News & World Report, a weekly newsmagazine based in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to 2000. After covering the Carter White House, he was the magazine's chief legal affairs writer for 15 years, covering the Justice Department, the Supreme Court, and crime and justice issues nationally. After 1996, he served as national news editor and as a writer on law schools and other education issues. Before joining U.S. News, Gest was a reporter and editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.