Liz Schwartz

Five Tips from Mother Jones

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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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