January 22, 2016 — Nazila Fathi, spring 2012 fellow and former Tehran bureau chief for The New York Times, participates in a discussion on “The Takeaway” about how global press freedom is threatened by politics and violence, and how censorship is changing in the digital age. Listen to the episode.
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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 Spring 2016 Events. Our weekly Speakers Series resumes for the spring semester with a lineup of all-star guests, including Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and
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January 20, 2016 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy, argued that the current refugee crisis was amplified by a failure of western intervention policies, the loss of control of European borders, and insufficient support for refugee camps, during two lectures he delivered at Central European University. Read a summary
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January 18, 2016 — Judy Woodruff, fall 2005 fellow and PBS NewsHour anchor, leads a discussion about the takeaways from the January 16 Democratic debate. Watch the video on PBS NewsHour.
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January 14, 2016 — Peter Hamby, spring 2013 fellow, who joined Snapchat last April to lead its news efforts, will expand his oversight to another department, Local Stories. Read more in Variety. Also listen to audio from Hamby’s recent talk about Snapchat in the 2016 election.
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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 Spring 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellows. The Shorenstein Center announced the appointment of its spring 2016 fellows: Johanna Dunaway, associate professor of communication at Texas A&M
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January 14, 2016 — Nicco Mele, Shorenstein Center advisory board member and former lecturer at the Center, will draw on digital and traditional media experience in his new USC Annenberg post. Read more at USC News.
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January 14, 2016 — Fred Wertheimer, fall 1996 fellow and president of Democracy 21, reflects on the 6th anniversary of the Citizens United ruling, arguing that it has corrupted the electoral process, with “500 million in secret contributions” having been injected into federal elections since the decision. Read more on Huffington Post.
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January 13, 2016 — Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, will bring his keen perspective and political insights back to CBS News as an occasional contributor throughout the 2016 election season. Read more.
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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 spring 2016 fellows. “We have a remarkably diverse and talented group of fellows for the spring semester,” said Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press and
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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 Are Women Underrepresented in News Coverage? From Journalist’s Resource. How Using Search Engines Impacts Voter Decisions, from Journalist’s Resource. Household Surveys: Problems, Usefulness in Collecting
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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 Persistent Advocate: The New York Times’ Editorials and the Normalization of U.S. Ties with Cuba. On the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Cuban Thaw, a
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