2012

Arab Spring not a revolution for women, says NPR journalist

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February 7, 2012 — The revolutions during the Arab Spring have yielded disappointing results for women, said NPR foreign correspondent Lourdes Garcia‑Navarro at a Shorenstein Center event. While the events of Tahrir Square and across the Middle East provided women with unprecedented opportunities, she said, when the smoke cleared, women once again found themselves underrepresented in […]

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Egypt: From Tahrir Square to Today

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February 2, 2012 – A panel conversation with Mona Eltahawy, Columnist, Toronto Star, The Jerusalem Report and Politiken; Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS; and Charles Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and Co-founder, GlobalPost. Moderator: Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Cosponsored by HKS Middle East Initiative; The Open Hands Initiative; The Shorenstein Center on the

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Israel in The New York Times Over the Decades: A Changed Narrative and Its Impact on Jewish Readers

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Neil Lewis Shorenstein Center Fellow, Spring 2011 Formerly, The New York Times Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A survey of nearly 3,000 articles in The Times about Israel over the decades from the 1960’s to recent years provides a long-range view that shows that it is a narrative with, in the broadest sense, two

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Stories of Climate Change: Competing Narratives, the Media, and U.S. Public Opinion 2001–2010

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Frederick W. Mayer Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2011 Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A decade that began with optimism for those advocating action to combat climate change ended in 2010 with dashed hopes. Momentum slowly grew in the first half of the decade. By 2007 there was

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White House reporter looks at Obama’s term in office

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January 31, 2012 — Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent for RealClearPolitics, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about President Obama and his administration. Simendinger outlined four areas that the president himself has identified as needing improvement: communicating effectively, focusing on what people care about, portraying a centrist image and using executive power. What he was so

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Google execs say Internet is powerful tool for data-driven policy

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January 26, 2012 — The power of the Internet to influence public policy and economic growth was the topic discussed by a panel of Google policy experts at a special event for Harvard Kennedy School students hosted by the Shorenstein Center, HKS Communications Program, HKS Office of Career Advancement and the HKS student group Tech{For}Change.

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Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect

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Vivek Kundra Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2011 Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets, Salesforce.com; Former U.S. Chief Information Officer Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A Shift in Power In the information economy, data is power and we face a choice between democratizing it and holding on to it for an asymmetrical advantage. For example,

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Gone Rogue: Time to Reform the Presidential Primary Debates

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Mark McKinnon Shorenstein Center Reidy Fellow, Fall 2011 Political Communications Strategist; Vice Chairman Hill+Knowlton Strategies Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: How would the course of history been altered had P.T. Barnum moderated the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858? Today’s ultimate showman and on-again, off-again presidential candidate Donald Trump invited the Republican presidential primary contenders

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