Deputy Editorial Page Editor Renee Loth One of 13 Picked for Honor.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1999-- A senior editor of The Boston Globe has been selected as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute for the 1999-2000 year. Renee Loth, deputy editorial page editor and a 14-year Globe veteran, is one of just 13 selected for this prestigious honor. The Radcliffe Public Policy Institute works to engage women and men as equal partners in shaping policy on important national economic, social and political issues. Each year, the Institute appoints a small number of people to serve as Public Policy Fellows, whose work is essential to the Institute's growth and influence. Their backgrounds are diverse: previous Fellows have been scholars, journalists, elected officials and policy analysts. Loth's project will analyze the topics of civil rights and wrongs: How much freedom should we give up in the names of order and security and how do we reconcile conflicting American values of free speech, censorship, and respect for others as individuals? Loth, 46, joined the Globe in 1985 and has served as a staff writer for its Sunday magazine, a reporter in the State House bureau, and political editor, overseeing coverage of the 1993 Boston mayoral race and the State House and New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. congressional stories. She covered the 1992 presidential campaign and inaugurated the popular "Adwatch" column that analyzed TV political ads. She was appointed deputy editor of the Boston Globe's editorial page on January 1, 1994. Prior to coming to the Globe she was an associate editor at New England Monthly New England Monthly was a magazine published in Haydenville, Massachusetts from 1984 to 1990. Founded by Robert Nylen (publisher) and Daniel Okrent (editor), it won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in both 1986 and 1987, and was a finalist for many other magazine, and for five years was a political reporter for the Boston Phoenix. Her first job in journalism was as editor of the biweekly East Boston Community News, a neighborhood advocacy newspaper. Loth has a journalism degree from Boston University's School of Public Communication, where she was an editor of the college paper. She is a frequent political commentator on local and national radio and TV programs, and has been an undergraduate study group leader at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She has received numerous honors including the Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. Federation of America's "Maggie" award, the Award for Excellence in Media from the National Women's Political Caucus The National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) is a nationwide multi-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to increasing women's participation in the political process by recruiting, training, and supporting women who seek elected and appointed offices. , and the "Standing O" award from the Massachusetts Human Services Coalition. Loth joins the following as Radcliffe Fellows: Stacy Blake-Beard, assistant professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is a graduate school at Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States. It offers six doctoral concentrations and thirteen masters programs. ; Hilde Bojer, professor, University of Oslo The University of Oslo (Norwegian: Universitetet i Oslo, Latin: Universitas Osloensis) was founded in 1811 as Universitas Regia Fredericiana (the Royal Frederick University , Norway; Lisa Dodson, author; Silvia Dorado, expert in microfinance policy; Jane Fountain, associate professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government The John F. Kennedy School of Government, colloquially known as the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) or simply the Kennedy School, is a public policy school and one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ; Janet Giele, professor, Heller School at Brandeis University Brandeis University, at Waltham, Mass.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1948. Although Brandeis was founded by members of the American Jewish community, the university operates as an independent, nonsectarian institution. ; Mona Harrington, writer and lawyer; Kathleen Dunn Janezic, associate professor, Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing ; Wendy Kaminer, lawyer and social critic; Robert Kuttner, founder and co-editor of The American Prospect; Julie Matthaei, professor, Wellesley College; Ann Robbart, public policy expert; Pamela Stone, professor, Hunter College. |
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