The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to present the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to: “Mississippi’s Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System” by Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo, Anna Wolfe, and Michelle Liuof The Marshall Project, Mississippi…
Upcoming Events
The Future of the GOP – and the Challenges Facing Democracy
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
Virtual – Registration Required
Join us for a speaker series with Tim Alberta, staff writer for The Atlantic magazine, on the future of the GOP and the challenges facing democracy. The conversation will be moderated by Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS…
Epistemic Motivations, Political Identity, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
Virtual – Registration Required
Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, 2007) is a Professor of Communication and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware…
Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
Thursday, April 22, 2021
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Virtual – Registration Required
Please join us for a book talk with the authors of “Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology.” This discussion with Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank is sponsored by the new HKS Public Interest Tech Lab…
Featured Research
Self-Optimization in the Face of Patriarchy: How Mainstream Women’s Media Facilitates White Feminism
The capitalistic, corporate, individualistic narratives of fourth-wave and white feminism are communicated and reinforced by mainstream women’s media. Koa Beck is the former Editor-in-Chief of Jezebel.com, and was a Joan Shorenstein Fellow in Spring 2019. This paper informed and became part of her new book “White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind.”
Although it is often said that the United States today has a mainstream news system and a conservative news system, these labels don’t fully capture how CBS and Fox covered the 2020 campaign. Their coverage is the tale of two elections, says Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, in the latest installment of his decades-long research on campaign media coverage.
Featured Audio & Video
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 – Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and an Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. Her research…
News
The HKS Misinformation Review’s latest special issue presents peer-reviewed articles that place the current field of misinformation research into historical perspective. Guest edited by A.J. Bauer (University of Alabama) and Anthony Nadler (Ursinus College).
