This session is part of the 10-week seminar series, Data, Technology and Innovation in Government, led by Nick Sinai. Seminars are for students only (graduate and undergraduate) and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Guest: Ryan Panchadsaram, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Description: The failures and subsequent rescue of Healthcare.gov is a compelling story in its […]
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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 Five Tips for Media Coverage and Government Communication on Security Issues. Juliette Kayyem, who has worked in homeland security at the state and federal level,
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A paper by Matthew Hindman, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014) and Associate Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, examines why local newspapers are falling behind in online audience growth and how they can fix the problem. Hindman’s research finds that although national news websites have robust traffic,
April 1, 2015 — Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, discussed trends in news consumption and what they mean for an informed public on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR. Listen to the episode.
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This session is part of the 10-week seminar series, Data, Technology and Innovation in Government, led by Nick Sinai. Seminars are for students only (graduate and undergraduate) and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Guest: Cori Zarek, White House Senior Advisor for Open Government Description: FOIA reform narrowly missed becoming law in the last Congress, but
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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 Farnaz Fassihi, senior Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and current Nieman Fellow, discussed how the nature of reporting on the Middle East
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Maya Sen (Moderator), Ash Center Faculty Affiliate and HKS Assistant Professor of Public Policy Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Government, Harvard University Nate Cohn, politics and policy writer, The New York Times Thursday, March 26, 2015, 4:10 p.m. Ash Center Foyer 124 Mount Auburn St, Suite 200-North, Cambridge Hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance
How Data is Helping Us Understand Voting Rights After Shelby County Read More »
A paper by Neal Gabler, former Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2011), author and film critic, examines the quantity and nature of media coverage of Edward Kennedy over the course of his political career. Gabler analyzed press coverage of Edward M. Kennedy in newspapers, newsmagazines, broadcast news programs and tabloids. He compared the coverage Kennedy received
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March 23, 2015 — Michele Norris, Joan Shorenstein Fellow Spring 2015, interviews the filmmaker and subject of the documentary, “Little White Lie,” in which a woman learns about her unknown African-American ancestry. Read more on NPR’s Code Switch.
Michele Norris: Family Secret And Cultural Identity Revealed In “Little White Lie” Read More »
This session is part of the 10-week seminar series, Data, Technology and Innovation in Government, led by Nick Sinai. Seminars are for students only (graduate and undergraduate) and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Guest: Alex Howard, editor at E Pluribus Unum, columnist for TechRepublic. Description: Data journalism is a hot topic—with a number of
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March 20, 2015 — Yavuz Baydar, Joan Shorenstein Fellow Fall 2014, writes about escalating threats to freedom of the press in Turkey in The Guardian. Read more.
Yavuz Baydar: Erdogan has all but destroyed Turkish journalism Read More »
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 This week was Sunshine Week, an annual nation-wide celebration of access to public information. To get started on your own government data excavation, visit Journalist’s
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March 18, 2015 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy, discussed how the hopes for democracy, open society, and globalization have turned out in a lecture at Central European University. Read a summary of the talk.
March 13, 2015 — David Weinberger, Joan Shorenstein Fellow Spring 2015, writes about the complexities of ranking search results in Slate. Whether results are ranked by popularity or by accuracy, there are very real implications for topics such as science and journalism. Read more.
David Weinberger: So Sayeth Google Read More »
This session is part of the 10-week seminar series, Data, Technology and Innovation in Government, led by Nick Sinai. Seminars are for students only (graduate and undergraduate) and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Guest: Sokwoo Rhee, Associate Director of Cyber-Physical Systems, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Description: Increasingly, cities are networking vehicles, street lights, electric
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A paper by Yavuz Baydar, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014), and columnist, blogger, and co-founder of the Platform for Independent Journalism (P24), examines current threats to freedom of the press in Turkey. Although imprisonment of journalists has declined in Turkey, 2014 saw a dramatic rise in firings and self-imposed censorship in newsrooms under the Justice and
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March 5, 2015 — A famous TIME magazine article in the 1990’s featured a cover with Bob Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Larry Summers as “the committee to save the world” and inspired the next generation of economists to pursue public service as a means to solve big problems. More recently, a TIME article in 2014 has
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This session is part of the five-week study group series, How Shifts in Race and Cultural Identity Influence Politics, Policy and Pop Culture, led by Michele Norris. Seminars are for Harvard students only (graduate and undergraduate), and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Description: What this six-word essay from The Race Card Project hints at
Study Group: “Racism is a flesh colored bandaid” – Examining the color of commerce Read More »
March 5, 2015 — Job creation has been a priority of the Obama administration — the U.S. has seen over 10 million jobs created since President Obama took office. To aid these largely private sector efforts, the administration has worked to make federal job training programs that serve over 21 million Americans every year better able to
March 5, 2015 — Last week at Harvard Kennedy School, we hosted a roundtable of several dozen healthcare leaders to discuss how better use of data can lead to improved care, smarter spending, and healthier people. By conversation’s end, leaders from a dozen public and private sector organizations pledged a number of tangible steps to make
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