{"id":11511,"date":"2023-10-12T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/ona24\/speaker\/ellen-shearer\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:58:47","slug":"ellen-shearer","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/ona24\/speaker\/ellen-shearer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Shearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Shearer is the William F. Thomas Professor Emerita in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Until Fall 2022, she was bureau chief of the school\u2019s Washington Program, Medill News Service, and leader of the graduate program\u2019s Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs Specialization.<\/p>\n<p> From 1996 on, she directed the Washington program\u2019s project, \u201cNo-Shows,\u201d quadrennial national polls of likely nonvoters that provided new information about the characteristics of nonvoters and revealed five distinct types of people who don\u2019t vote. <\/p>\n<p> She is co-author of the book \u201cNonvoters: America\u2019s No-Shows,\u201d has written chapters in six other books. She also created and edited three books, \u201cWhistleblowers, Leaks and the Media,\u201d \u201c National Security Law in the News,\u201d (both ABA Press) and \u201cTruth Counts: A Practical Guide for News Consumers\u201d (CQ Press).<\/p>\n<p> Since 1999 she has coordinated judging for the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association\u2019s annual awards. 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