Liz Schwartz

Announcing the HKS Misinformation Review

Disinformation, News / By

The Shorenstein Center is proud to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. The HKS Misinformation Review is an open-source, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal focused on all aspects of misinformation and featuring methodologically diverse, peer-reviewed, empirical research and cutting-edge commentary. Articles and commentaries published by the HKS Misinformation Review are edited […]

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Dr. Joan Donovan testifies in Congressional Hearing on January 8 2020

Dr. Joan Donovan Testifies to Congress on Media Manipulation and Disinformation

Disinformation, In the News, News / By

Dr. Joan Donovan testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce on January 8, 2020, in a hearing titled “Americans at Risk: Manipulation And Deception in the Digital Age“. Full video of the hearing can be seen below: You can also read Dr. Donovan’s prepared testimony by clicking here.

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Five Tips from Mother Jones

Journalistic Practice, Local News, Media Business, Publications / By

Below are five lessons from MoJo’s experiences that other nonprofit investigative newsrooms can adapt and use.  One: Treat your audience like your public board.  By sharing strategic information like company financials and plans for the future, Mother Jones opened up a new relationship with its audience. The radical transparency born of reader support columns and

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Mother Jones' editor in chief Clara Jeffery (right) talks with Jahna Berry (center), director of news product and Clint Hendler (left), news director after a news meeting on Thursday, March 2, 2017 in San Francisco, Calif.

Case Study: Mother Jones

Discussion Papers, Journalistic Practice, Local News, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications / By

Creating a Thriving Legacy News Magazine through Mission, Strategy, and Experimentation Case Study co-published by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Institute for Nonprofit News. The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of

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Can Public Media Help Fix Market Failures in Local News?

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

The Public Media Merger project is taking an in-depth look at the public media/digital newsroom mergers across the country in the last decade, to understand how they are working (and not working), what it takes to make these mergers successful (and what should be avoided), and what can be learned that will benefit newsrooms in other communities.

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The Commons: Student Workshop Reimagines Political Media

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The Commons is a prototype of an imagined news outlet covering U.S. politics. It is the product of an eight-week discussion workshop this fall at Harvard led by Adam Moss, Shorenstein fellow and the former editor-in-chief of New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. The workshop’s premise: building a better political media. Exploring what

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On the Trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times Correspondent’s Time in China

Audio & Video, Past Events / By

Fall 2019 Shorenstein Fellow Jane Perlez has been a foreign correspondent for the New York Times for nearly 30 years, most recently serving as bureau chief for the paper in Beijing. She previously reported from Kenya, Poland, Austria, Indonesia and Pakistan, and she was a member of the New York Times team that won a

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image of a laptop computer with dollar bills falling around it, symbolizing profit from technology. Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash.

Countering Underinvestment in Prevention by Platform Companies

Faculty Research, Government Institutions, Papers, Policy & Issues, Public Interest Technology, Publications, Tech Policy, Technology / By

This Policy Paper is part of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project’s efforts to explain and disseminate ideas about regulation of major technology and digital platform companies. Click here to read more of their research and commentary. The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Policy Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those

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The Politics of Difference: Race, Technology, and Inclusion

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The Technology and Social Change Research Project and the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability – both core research projects at the Shorenstein Center – recently co-sponsored an event at the IOP JFK Jr. Forum on “The Politics of Difference: Race, Technology, and Inclusion.” Panelists included: Prof. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, faculty director of the Initiative

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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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