Alex S. Jones (born November 19, 1946) is an American journalist who was director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government from July 1, 2000, until June 2015.

"[3][4] Jones and Tifft followed The Dynasty with a 1999 book about the history of Adolph S. Ochs and his descendants, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times (Little, Brown, 870pp).

He and his late wife were named Honorary Doctors of Humane Letters by Washington and Lee University,[11] his alma mater.

The newspaper was the flagship of the Jones Media Inc., a group of small-town dailies, weeklies and monthlies in Tennessee and North Carolina,[14] and he served on the company's board.

In 1998 they became jointly Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy.