Nilagia McCoy, Author at Shorenstein Center

2016 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics

Audio & Video, Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Past Events, Politics & Government / By Nilagia McCoy

A panel discussion about the 2016 election and news coverage featuring: Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow; political contributor to CBS News; former moderator of “Face the Nation” Nancy Kaffer, columnist, Detroit Free Press; winner of the 2016 David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism Derrick Z. Jackson, Joan Shorenstein Fellow; Boston Globe essayist Michael […]

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Designing the Change at Scale: Learning to Leverage the Lizard Brain to Launch a Multi-Billion Dollar Brand

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

A communications workshop with Michael Phillips Moskowitz, Entrepreneurship Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. Presented by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Communications Program.

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Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics with Larry Wilmore

Audio & Video, Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Past Events, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Race & Gender / By Nilagia McCoy

This year’s Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics was delivered by comedian, producer and writer Larry Wilmore. The David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism was also awarded to Nancy Kaffer of the Detroit Free Press. Larry Wilmore’s talk starts at 15:09. You can also listen to Wilmore’s talk as a podcast below, and on iTunes, Google Play (login

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Designing the Change at Scale: Learning to Leverage the Lizard Brain to Launch a Multi-Billion Dollar Brand

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

A communications workshop with Michael Phillips Moskowitz, Entrepreneurship Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. Presented by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Communications Program.

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Nicco Mele: All Journalism is Local

Uncategorized / By Nilagia McCoy

Nicco Mele, director of the Shorenstein Center, writes that after the election, “to get beyond celebrity- and pundit-driven news, newsrooms need to become civic reactors—hubs of community information and activity.” Read more in Nieman Reports.

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Nicco Mele: All Journalism is Local

Local News, News / By Nilagia McCoy

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Media & Politics Must Reads, November 11, 2016: Making Sense of the Election

Newsletters / By Nilagia McCoy

Friends of the Shorenstein Center, This entire election cycle—and its outcome—raises many questions about the state of media and politics in the United States. How did the polls get it so wrong? Was the media too soft or too hard on particular candidates? How do we handle a foreign government hacking and leaking information to

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Crowdsourcing, Prizes, Moonshots, and More: Bringing New Ideas and Tech into Government

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

Panelists: Chris Nelson, White House, Assistant Director of Open Innovation Jenn Gustetic, NASA, Small Business Innovation Research Program Executive Sandeep Patel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Open Innovation Manager Wendy Taylor, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Director of the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact Nick Sinai, HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public

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Media & Politics Must Reads, November 4, 2016

Newsletters / By Nilagia McCoy

Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. This Week at the Shorenstein Center Sissela Bok: Secrets and Lies in Politics and Elections. Sissela Bok, writer, philosopher, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of

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Media & Politics Must Reads, October 28, 2016

Newsletters / By Nilagia McCoy

Dear Friends of the Shorenstein Center, This week The Washington Post ran two pieces that aptly summarize what I think are the twin challenges to the state of journalism that this presidential race has surfaced. Catherine Rampell wrote about the damage that misinformation from conservative media has had on the Republican Party and the presidential

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Jeffrey Rosen—The Deciders: The Future of Free Speech in a Digital World

News Business & Practice, Past Events, Press Freedom, Prizes & Lectures, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

2016 Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO of the National Constitution Center, Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, and a Contributing Editor of The Atlantic, delivered the ninth annual Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center

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Jeffrey Rosen—The Deciders: The Future of Free Speech in a Digital World

Audio & Video, News Business & Practice, Past Events, Press Freedom, Prizes & Lectures / By Nilagia McCoy

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Media & Politics Must Reads, October 21, 2016

Newsletters / By Nilagia McCoy

Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. This Week at the Shorenstein Center Amy Walter: The Current State of the Campaign. Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report, discussed possible outcomes of the 2016 presidential and down-ballot

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Peter Hart: Trends and Demographics in the 2016 Election

Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Past Events, Politics & Government / By Nilagia McCoy

October 19, 2016 — Peter D. Hart, chairman of Hart Research Associates, a public opinion research firm that provides polls for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, discussed the driving forces behind the 2016 presidential election, and the influence of voter demographics and public opinion on the race. Hart also discussed down-ballot races, polling,

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Peter Hart: Trends and Demographics in the 2016 Election

Audio & Video, Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Past Events, Politics & Government / By Nilagia McCoy

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Conference on Race and Justice in the Age of Obama

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, along with the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; and Hutchins Center for African & African American Research are proud to host a symposium on Race and Justice in the Age of Obama on October

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Media & Politics Must Reads, October 14, 2016

Newsletters / By Nilagia McCoy

Dear friends of the Shorenstein Center, I don’t know about you, but I woke up Monday morning with a bad taste in my mouth, a sadness about the state of the country and the brokenness of our politics. After watching the presidential debate the night before, I could see the next few weeks playing out

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Conference on Race and Justice in the Age of Obama

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

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How Media Newsworthiness Norms Have Sustained the Trump Candidacy

Uncategorized / By Nilagia McCoy

Matthew Baum, Kalb Professor of Global Communication at the Harvard Kennedy School, argues that “the mainstream news media’s longstanding tools for determining what is or isn’t newsworthy have proven inadequate to deal with the candidacy of Donald Trump.” Read more on Huffington Post.

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News / By Nilagia McCoy

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