Marion Just

Marion Just is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a research associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a consultant to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a member of the advisory board of the Reform Institute, and the editorial board of the Harvard International Journal of Press Politics.

Professor Just has been a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University, and a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She is a co-author of several books, including We Interrupt This Broadcast: …How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning (University of Chicago Press, 1992). She is co-editor of Rethinking the Vote: The Politics and Prospects of American Electoral Reform (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Framing Terrorism: News Media, Government and the Public (Routledge, 2003). Her work also appears in scholarly articles and edited volumes, including three recent collections on emotions and politics.