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 […]
Alex Jones to leave Shorenstein Center July 1, 2015 Read More »
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
Nick Sinai: 2015: Year of the Chief Data Officer Read More »
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
Book Review: “The Lonely War” by Nazila Fathi Read More »
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
2014 Event Highlights Read More »
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