Ted Gest is president of Criminal Justice Journalists and Washington bureau chief of TheCrimeReport.org, a website affiliated with the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He publishes a daily news digest on that site. Gest started covering crime and justice for his hometown newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and continued at U.S. News & World Report, where he also covered the White House, the Supreme Court and law schools. He is the author of “Crime & Politics” and the co-editor of the forthcoming “Inside the Upheaval of Journalism: Reporters Look Back on 50 Years of Covering the News.” He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.