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 […]
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Below is a transcript of the spoken portions of the video announcing the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting winner. Hi, I’m Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and this is not how we expected to welcome you to the annual awarding
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This year’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting could not be announced as it normally would be, in front of a packed house at the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School. We know this was disappointing for so many who looked forward to celebrating the finalists and winner this year. However, our new physically-distanced reality
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In today’s media saturated culture, storytelling itself has become the story. It’s a Choose Your Own Adventure moment, and the stories we choose – and that choose us – have real implications on how our democracy works.
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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. This paper is an evolution on the ideas first laid out in Gene Kimmelman’s September 2019 Policy Paper, The
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Update March 16, 2020: We are looking forward announcing the winner of this year’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting via video on March 23rd, and hope you will celebrate along with us, the winner, and the finalists via social media. Stay tuned! Update March 9, 2020: Due to precautions around the coronavirus outbreak, the 2020
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This spring, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy will welcome a group of highly accomplished media professionals to Harvard Kennedy School as Shorenstein Fellows. The cohort includes working journalists, academics, and media business executives. They will join the Shorenstein Center as active members of the intellectual community at the Kennedy School, conducting
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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 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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U.S./China relations have seen huge shifts over the past decade. Jane Perlez, former Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times, witnessed much of it during her seven years reporting from China. Listen to her new podcast below. You can also download it via Apple Podcasts, or your preferred podcast app. On the Trail of
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The following is a full transcript of Jane Perlez’s Shorenstein Fellowship project podcast on Xi Jinping and U.S./China relations. Click here to listen to the podcast. Unidentified Voice: The methods that our comrades have at hand are too primitive. Jane Perlez: These are the words of Xi Jinping, China’s leader. Unidentified Voice: None of these
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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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