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July 27, 2015 — Neal Gabler, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2011), author and film critic, writes about the conflation of entertainment and politics on Reuter’s Great Debate blog. Read more…

July 26, 2015 — Martha Joynt Kumar, professor of political science at Towson University and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 1998), joins Chuck Todd on Meet the Press to discuss the often complicated transition of power from one president to the next, as detailed in her new book, Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack

July 22, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center is pleased to announce that Denise-Marie Ordway has joined the Center as research reporter/editor for Journalist’s Resource. Ordway has been a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer and also wrote news for two radio stations and a newspaper in Central America. She was named as a

July 21, 2015 — The Columbia Journalism Review published an interview with William Buzenberg , Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2015) and former Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, about his new Shorenstein Center paper, which details how the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists investigated “some of the world’s most powerful players—big tobacco, the World Bank, and high-ranking government

July 16, 2015 — Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast special correspondent and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2003), argues in an op-ed that although the Iran nuclear deal is not without it’s risks, “it’s clearly a good thing that Obama is trying to shift the reigning Washington foreign-policy paradigm from war-making to deal-making.” Read more on The Daily

July 14, 2015 — Yavuz Baydar, journalist and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014), has won Italy’s Caravella Meditterraneo/Mare Nostrum award, for his work on press freedom and media independence in Turkey. The Caravella awards are given to important academic and diplomatic figures and to journalists in the Mediterranean region. Read more in Today’s Zaman.