Nilagia McCoy

Nick Sinai

Government Spending Transparency Seminar

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. Guest: Hudson Hollister, Executive Director of the Data Transparency Coalition. Description: Spending transparency has the potential to reduce corruption, improve government efficiency, and improve trust in government. The 2009 […]

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Goldsmith Seminar on Investigative Reporting

Goldsmith Seminar panel discussion with the winners and finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Panelists: Jenn Abelson, The Boston Globe; Audra Burch, Miami Herald; John Carreyrou, The Wall Street Journal; Justin Elliott, ProPublica; Jennifer Berry Hawes, The Post and Courier; Marvin Kalb, veteran reporter for CBS News, NBC News, and former moderator of “Meet The Press”; Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald; Doug

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Miami Herald Wins the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

March 3, 2015, Cambridge, MA – The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from the Shorenstein Center has been awarded to Carol Marbin Miller, Audra Burch, Mary Ellen Klas, Emily Michot, Kara Dapena and Lazaro Gamio of the Miami Herald for their investigative report “Innocents Lost.” Additionally, the Shorenstein Center awarded the Career Award for

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MIAMI HERALD WINS THE GOLDSMITH PRIZE FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

March 3, 2015 – The Goldsmith Awards Ceremony honored the best in investigative and political journalism. The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting was awarded to Carol Marbin Miller, Audra Burch, Mary Ellen Klas, Emily Michot, Kara Dapena and Lazaro Gamio of the Miami Herald for their investigative report “Innocents Lost.” The Book Prize for best academic book

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Michele Norris

Study Group: The role of race in the race to win votes

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. Description: Campaigns increasingly analyze and scrutinize enormous amounts of data on opinions and behavior to determine which voters

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Entrepreneur Roundtable

Panel discussion of how entrepreneurs can build great products and companies through the use of open data. Featuring: Aaron Chatterji, Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard Business School Alyssa Ravasio, CEO, Hipcamp Racquel Russell, Director of Government Relations, Zillow Yaron Samid, CEO, Bill Guard Vincent Yang, CEO, EverString Gil Zimmermann, Founder & CEO, CloudLock Aneesh Chopra, Walter Shorenstein

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Matthew A. Baum

Matthew Baum: News coverage of civil conflict Is biased in both democracies and autocracies

February 26, 2015 — Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communication at the Harvard Kennedy School, writes about his recent research examining global news coverage of the Libyan civil war in The Washington Post. Using data published in 2,252 newspapers in 113 countries, he and Yuri M. Zhukov of the University of Michigan found that “coverage of

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Dori Maynard

Dori Maynard: Reflections on technology and diversity in the news business

February 25, 2015 — Dori Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, died Tuesday, February 24, 2015. She was 56. Maynard was a tireless advocate for more racial diversity in the newsroom, as well as for greater awareness of diversity issues within news coverage itself. As part of her Maynard Institute work,

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