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Announcing the 2023 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Finalists

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the six finalists for the 2023 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The Goldsmith Prize, first awarded in 1993 and funded by a gift from the Greenfield Foundation, honors the best public service investigative journalism that has made an …

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Judy Woodruff to be honored with the 2023 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism

The Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism is given annually for outstanding contributions to the field of journalism, and for work that has enriched our political discourse and our society. This year’s winner is Judy Woodruff, whose groundbreaking career in broadcast journalism spans generations. Best known for her measured, fact-first delivery, she has earned …

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Spring 2023 Shorenstein Fellows

Center News, News / By Lindsay

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is pleased to announce the Spring 2023 cohort of Shorenstein Fellows. Shorenstein Fellows join the center for a semester of research, events, and engagement with HKS students, faculty, and the wider university community. This semester’s fellows are working on research related to documentary filmmaking, political commentary, …

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News Crisis: Can Local Public Radio Help Fill the News Gap Created by the Decline of Local Newspapers?

Discussion Papers, Local News, News Business & Practice, Publications / By Lindsay

The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or of Harvard University. Discussion Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback and to encourage debate on important issues and challenges in …

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Ethical Scaling for Content Moderation: Extreme Speech and the (In)Significance of Artificial Intelligence

Discussion Papers, Public Interest Technology, Publications / By Lindsay

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Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Center News, News, Public Interest Journalism / By Lindsay

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to present the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to: “FEMA’s Disasters” by Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran of The Washington Post. About the winning investigative reporting project, and its impact: Washington Post reporters spent 2021 traversing the …

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New tool could help combat the effects of restrictive voting legislation

News, Public Interest Technology / By Lindsay

2021 saw a massive increase in restrictive voting legislation, an alarming trend that, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, is likely to continue this year. Hundreds of bills in nearly every state have been introduced in the last year that are designed to make it harder for voters to participate in the democratic process. …

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Disrupted media – disrupted academy: Rethinking African j-schools

Discussion Papers, Public Interest Journalism, Publications / By Lindsay

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New study on receptiveness to opposing views

Faculty Research, News, Publications / By Lindsay

Julia Minson, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Shorenstein Center resident faculty member, and Dr. Frances Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, recently published a new study in the Personality and Social Psychology Review on receptiveness to opposing views – or as the …

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The Case for Video Animation in Local TV News: Summary Report for Newsrooms

Local News, News Business & Practice / By Lindsay

Authors Mike Beaudet is a professor of the practice at Northeastern University School of Journalism and an investigative reporter at WCVB- TV Boston. Contact: m.beaudet@northeastern.edu John Wihbey is an associate professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern, a faculty affiliate at Northeastern’s Ethics Institute, and a former Research Associate and Assistant Director at the …

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