Melinda Henneberger, spring 2013 fellow and editor in chief of Roll Call, analyzes how three non-prime-time speakers at the DNC highlighted Trump’s vulnerabilities. Read more on Roll Call.
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Renée Loth, fall 2011 fellow and Boston Globe columnist, argues that conservatives have been more successful at wielding language to “frame public perceptions of issues and institutions,” resulting in the denigration of services the government provides. Read more in The Boston Globe.
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John Huey, spring 2013 fellow and former editor of Fortune and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., writes about Roger Ailes’ impact on Fox News, his relationships with employees, and what may lie ahead for the network. Read more on Yahoo.
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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 Shorenstein Center Announces Fall 2016 Fellows. Derrick Z. Jackson, essayist for The Boston Globe and a climate and energy writer for the Union of Concerned
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A new paper by Joanna Jolly, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2016) and former BBC South Asia editor, examines the increased coverage of rape in India’s English-language newspapers following the infamous 2012 gang rape in Delhi, and whether this coverage led to policy change. India’s English-language newspapers play an agenda-setting role in the country. Jolly finds that
Rape Culture in India: The Role of the English-Language Press Read More »
CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of its fall 2016 fellows. “In the midst of a rapidly changing media, politics and policy environment both domestically and abroad, each of these Shorenstein Fellows is uniquely suited to lead the
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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 News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primaries: Horse Race Reporting Has Consequences. A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and
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Dan Kennedy, spring 2016 fellow and associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, criticizes the Republican debates as “an exercise in faux democracy,” owing to their organization and presentation of the candidates. Read more in The Washington Post.
Dan Kennedy: The Debates Gave Donald Trump the Nomination, and It’s the Media’s Fault Read More »
A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of the 2016 presidential primary races and how it affected the candidates’ chances of winning the nomination, concluding that coverage of the primaries focused on the horse race over the issues – to the detriment of candidates
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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 The Pen and the Sword: Reporting ISIS. A new paper by Paul Wood, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2015) and BBC world affairs correspondent, tells the
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Trudy Lieberman, spring 2001 fellow and press critic for Columbia Journalism Review, writes about how the International Business Times uncovered a conflict of interest in the state’s review of a proposed merger of Anthem and Cigna. Read more in Columbia Journalism Review.
A new paper by Paul Wood, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2015) and BBC world affairs correspondent, tells the harrowing story of a kidnapping by ISIS, and examines the ethical dilemmas that arise when reporting on terrorist organizations. Between November 2012 and the summer of 2014, some 24 Western journalists and aid workers were kidnapped and held
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