Adam Serwer

Adam Serwer is a Staff Writer at The Atlantic, covering politics. He has previously worked for BuzzFeed News, MSNBC, Mother Jones and The American Prospect. While at the Shorenstein Center, Serwer planned to conduct research into the historical role that black voters have played in defending and advancing the foundational American notion that all people are created equal—most especially when others have abandoned it.

Police Violence, Racial Injustice, and the Press: Reflections on Coverage of the Chauvin Trial

May 28, 2021

This event aired on May 28, 2021 as part of the Shorenstein Center’s new Alumni Fellows Network speaker series, featuring former Shorenstein fellows discussing major topics in the news, and their current work.

a stack of magazines

Preserving America’s Thought Leader Magazines

March 25, 2020

Heidi Legg is a long-time journalist who founded a digital local news startup, TheEditorial.com, before joining the Shorenstein Center as Director of Special Projects in 2018. Her work has been published in USA Today, Press Gazette, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, The Ottaway Citizen and WBUR’s Cognoscenti. To read a PDF version of this

Nabiha Syed: 2018 Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press

January 10, 2019

Nabiha Syed, Vice President and Associate General Counsel at BuzzFeed, gave the 11th Annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, November 14, 2018. Ms. Syed, a well respected lawyer who has spent her career specializing in free speech law, laid

Adam Serwer

The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer: The Politics of Racism in Trump’s America

March 27, 2018

March 27, 2018—Adam Serwer, senior editor at The Atlantic, discussed the role of race and class in U.S. politics, and its media coverage, during a visit to the Shorenstein Center. Below are some highlights of his conversation with Shorenstein Center Director Nicco Mele, as well as the full audio. The Shorenstein Center’s podcast is also available

Police Violence, Racial Injustice, and the Press: Reflections on Coverage of the Chauvin Trial

May 28, 2021

This event aired on May 28, 2021 as part of the Shorenstein Center’s new Alumni Fellows Network speaker series, featuring former Shorenstein fellows discussing major topics in the news, and their current work.

a stack of magazines

Preserving America’s Thought Leader Magazines

March 25, 2020

Heidi Legg is a long-time journalist who founded a digital local news startup, TheEditorial.com, before joining the Shorenstein Center as Director of Special Projects in 2018. Her work has been published in USA Today, Press Gazette, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, The Ottaway Citizen and WBUR’s Cognoscenti. To read a PDF version of this

Nabiha Syed: 2018 Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press

January 10, 2019

Nabiha Syed, Vice President and Associate General Counsel at BuzzFeed, gave the 11th Annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, November 14, 2018. Ms. Syed, a well respected lawyer who has spent her career specializing in free speech law, laid

Adam Serwer

The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer: The Politics of Racism in Trump’s America

March 27, 2018

March 27, 2018—Adam Serwer, senior editor at The Atlantic, discussed the role of race and class in U.S. politics, and its media coverage, during a visit to the Shorenstein Center. Below are some highlights of his conversation with Shorenstein Center Director Nicco Mele, as well as the full audio. The Shorenstein Center’s podcast is also available

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.

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