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 not-for-credit. Description: The U.S. government collects and creates a ton of data that is increasingly being made available to the world. President Obama’s Open Data Initiatives include Executive Order […]
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Finalists include: The Boston Globe, Miami Herald, The Post and Courier, ProPublica and NPR, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. January 29, 2015 — Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The winner of the
January 29, 2015 — The Harvard Crimson covers a discussion with Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director, and Charles M. Sennott, co-founder of GlobalPost, at the Cambridge Forum. Read more…
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A paper by Celestine Bohlen, Fall 2014 Fellow and columnist at The International New York Times, explores the nature of the 2014 sanctions against Russia, their effects, and the resulting media coverage. Since 2014 the US and EU have targeted the close associates of Vladimir Putin – wealthy businessmen who receive high-profile government contracts –
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January 26, 2015 — Jeffrey Seglin, lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), has been awarded the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award by Trust Across America-Trust Across the World, after being named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trust for the fifth year in a row. Read more…
Jeffrey Seglin to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award for Trust Read More »
A free press and public access to information and a broad range of ideas and opinions were considered so essential for a healthy democratic republic that the Founders included protection for freedom of the press in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Alex Jones, director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy,
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January 21, 2015 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the “moral claims” of democracy as part of a panel on BBC Newsnight.
Michael Ignatieff: Does Democracy Have its Limits? Read More »
January 21, 2015 — “One of President Obama’s guests at this year’s State of the Union address was Kathy Pham, a health IT expert formerly of Google and IBM. Pham recently joined the federal government to make it easier for veterans to access the benefits they have earned – like her brother, who earned a
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The mission of the Joan Shorenstein Fellowship Program is to advance research in the field of media, politics and public policy; facilitate a dialogue among journalists, scholars, policymakers and students; provide an opportunity for reflection; and create a vibrant and long-lasting community of scholars and practitioners. The primary focus for a Fellow is to research,
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January 13, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce the appointment of their Spring 2015 Fellows. “The line-up of Shorenstein Fellows for the spring semester is a group of all-stars – every one of them,” said Alex S. Jones, the Center’s director. Shorenstein
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, After fifteen years as Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, I have told Dean Ellwood I have decided that this academic year will be my last, and that I shall be leaving the position as of July 1. Later, Dean Ellwood
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Using terror to intimidate and throttle free speech is not new. And it must not be allowed to succeed. We, as members of the Carnegie-Knight consortium of journalism schools, stand with all those who defy murderous efforts to silence a free and open media. We are sad and we are angry at the brutal assault
January 8, 2015 — “If government agencies are going to act as open platforms, shouldn’t they follow the lead of platform companies like Facebook, Google, Salesforce, and aspiring tech platform start-ups?” Nick Sinai, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, writes about the rise of the role of Chief Digital Officer in numerous government agencies, and why
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December 31, 2014 — Nahid Mozaffari reviews the new book The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran by former Shorenstein Fellow Nazila Fathi in The New York Times: “Nazila Fathi’s account of the turbulent years she spent in Iran as a child, a woman and a professional journalist is a personal story. But like
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December 28, 2014 — Zachary Karabell, former Shorenstein Fellow, author, and head of global strategy at Envestnet, writes about whether positive news and trends will impact political rhetoric in Politico Magazine. Read more…
Zachary Karabell: Will Politics in 2015 Catch Up with the Economy? Read More »
December 18, 2014 — Jill Dougherty, former Shorenstein Fellow and foreign affairs correspondent for CNN, covers Vladimir Putin’s most recent news conference. Read more…
Jill Dougherty: Crisis, what crisis? Putin’s marathon news conference Read More »
December 16, 2014 — Julia Baird, journalist and former Shorenstein Fellow, writes about the Sydney hostage siege in The New York Times. Read more…
Julia Baird: Isolated No More: The Sydney Hostage Siege and a Nation’s Identity Read More »
A new paper by Robert Lenzner, Spring 2014 Fellow and contributor to Forbes Media, examines why the media failed to detect the warning signs of the 2008 financial crisis – and how it can avoid missing them the next time around. Based on decades of experience as a financial reporter, and interviews with key figures including
Reporting on the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Next One Read More »
December 12, 2014 — Nick Sinai, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, discusses the case for treating data as infrastructure, and how data is poised to significantly alter government, journalism, and the private sector. Read more…
Nick Sinai: Data as Infrastructure Read More »
The Shorenstein Center hosts a weekly speaker series throughout the academic year, as well as other special events. With the Fall 2014 semester coming to a close, we look back at the perspectives shared by our visiting speakers, who discussed some of the important issues of 2014. A full list of past Shorenstein Center events
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