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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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