Mark Gilchrist

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

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.  The trial of Derek Chauvin sparked national conversations about violent policing and racial injustice. In its wake, how should policy makers, police, and journalists […]

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“News you don’t believe”: User perspectives on f*ke news and misinformation

Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. This event occurred on May 5, 2021. More about the speaker and the research can be found below the video. Users’ perspectives on what f*ke news and misinformation is and isn’t, who drives it, and where people say they see it are important

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“Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War”

Vassilis Coutifaris, program manager of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), moderated a conversation with Marvin Kalb, nonresident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, senior advisor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and founding director of the Shorenstein Center, about his new book “Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign

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