Maria Ressa wins 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Ressa is a Fall 2021 Joan Shorenstein Fellow and Hauser Leader at Harvard Kennedy School

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The HKS Misinformation Review is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes multidisciplinary research on mis- and disinformation on a fast timeline to get important new research into the hands of practitioners who need it.

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Research Fellows Join the Shorenstein Center's COVID States Project and Public Interest Tech Lab
A group of research fellows and post-doctoral fellows have joined the Shorenstein Center to work on several resident faculty-led projects. COVID States...
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Tracie Powell, Fall 2021 Shorenstein Center Research Fellow
Tracie Powell, expert on audience development, community engagement, philanthropy, and equity in journalism, joins the Shorenstein Center as a Fall 2021...
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Maria Ressa Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Maria Ressa, founder of Rappler.com, global press freedom advocate, and Fall 2021 Joan Shorenstein Fellow, was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize today. In...
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Shorenstein Fellow Kathy Pham talks tech with Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
On Thursday, July 15th, 2021, Harvard Shorenstein Center and Rita Allen Foundation Fellow, Kathy Pham, was invited to a meeting with Chancellor Dr. Angela...

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The 2021 Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press: Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Please RSVP by 12:00 PM ET on Monday, November 15th. You must register if you’d like the possibility of attending in person. You will be notified via email...
November 16, 2021
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Factual Corrections and Misinformation During the 2020 U.S. Election: Evidence from Panel Experiments
November 22, 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

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What is Stronger Than Hate? Lessons from Testimony, Media, and Scholarship
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and the USC Shoah Foundation, joined...
"Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War"
“News you don’t believe”: User perspectives on f*ke news and misinformation

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