Disinformation issues, Russian affairs, journalism ethics. Teach at Columbia. Formerly president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and standards editor, AP

Thomas Kent’s Biography

Specialties: Journalistic ethics in the digital age; newsroom design and workflow; Russian and Soviet journalism; politics and society in the late Soviet period. Languages: French, Russian and Spanish. Public presentations (in English. French and Russian) at journalism forums in the United States, Quebec, Mexico, UK, France, Austria, Russia, Azerbaijan, Indonesia and Hong Kong.

Previous positions with The Associated Press: Chief of New York Supervisory Desk; International Editor; World Service News Editor; World Serivce Deputy News Editor; Moscow Chief of Bureau; Chief of Operations in Iran; NATO and European Union Correspondent; reporting and editing assignments in Moscow, Sydney, New York and Hartford, Conn.

Leader of Online News Association ethics initiative (begun October 2013); advisor to the Ethical Journalism Network (2011-present) and SPJ.(starting 2013).