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Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect

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Vivek Kundra Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2011 Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets, Salesforce.com; Former U.S. Chief Information Officer Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A Shift in Power In the information economy, data is power and we face a choice between democratizing it and holding on to it for an asymmetrical advantage. For example, […]

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Gone Rogue: Time to Reform the Presidential Primary Debates

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Mark McKinnon Shorenstein Center Reidy Fellow, Fall 2011 Political Communications Strategist; Vice Chairman Hill+Knowlton Strategies Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: How would the course of history been altered had P.T. Barnum moderated the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858? Today’s ultimate showman and on-again, off-again presidential candidate Donald Trump invited the Republican presidential primary contenders

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The Dark Side: Reporting on the War on Terror

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December 5, 2011 – Kelman Seminar with Roger Cohen, columnist, International Herald Tribune; Fisher Family Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; and Carlotta Gall, reporter covering Pakistan and Afghanistan for The New York Times; Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Joan

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Campaign 2012 transformed by GOP debates, social media, decline of TV ads, says Romney adviser

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November 29, 2011 — The dynamics and landscape for campaigns in the 2012 presidential primary have shifted significantly since the last presidential election cycle in 2007–08, forcing candidates to rethink traditional strategies and uses of their resources, according to Russell J. Schriefer, senior adviser and media consultant to the Mitt Romney for President campaign. A longtime Republican

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Fighting for human rights and press freedom in Bahrain: Possibilities and Limitations

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November 28, 2011 – Discussion with Dr. Mansoor al Jamri, editor-in-chief of Bahrain’s Al Wasat. Co-sponsored by Harvard Law & International Development Society, HLS Human Rights Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Islamic Legal Studies Program, HKS Middle East Initiative, Shorenstein Center, Middle Eastern Law Students Association and The Prince al Waleed bin Talal Islamic

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Media unfairly portrayed Madoff’s victims, says Times reporter

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November 21, 2011 — Diana Henriques, senior financial writer at The New York Times and author of The Wizard of Lies, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how the media covered Bernie Madoff’s family and Ponzi scheme victims. She said that those who invested in Madoff’s scheme are often perceived as guilty, and are portrayed

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T.H. White Seminar explores conservatism, third party and GOP candidates

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November 18, 2011 – Theodore H. White Seminar on the Press and Politics with Tad Devine, Democratic media consultant for presidential campaigns; founder, Devine Mulvey; IOP Fellow; Thomas Frank, 2011 Nyhan Prize recipient; author and columnist, Harper’s magazine; Nia-Malika Henderson, national political reporter, The Washington Post; Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard University; staff writer,

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Andrew Sullivan delivers 22nd annual Theodore H. White Lecture

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November 17, 2011 — Andrew Sullivan, political commentator and blogger with The Daily Beast, gave the 2011 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. In his Lecture, “Conservatism and Its Discontents,” Sullivan argued that conservatism today is in a crisis and is “unrecognizable” from its traditional heritage.

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Reuters journalist recalls last days of Gaddafi regime

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November 15, 2011 — In the final days of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, Missy Ryan was held against her will in a Tripoli hotel. Ryan, a military correspondent with Reuters, shared her experience at a Shorenstein Center event. In the initial days of the conflict, Ryan and about 30 foreign journalists were not allowed

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Turkish journalist predicts totalitarian regime by 2014

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November 8, 2011 — Cüneyt Ülsever, a freelance journalist in Turkey, said at a Shorenstein Center event that Turkey is on an “open path” headed toward the “rule of one man: Erdoğan.” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the current Prime Minister of Turkey and the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has provided his people

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‘Endangered’ political cartoonist confident in art form’s survival

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November 1, 2011 — Dan Wasserman, editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe, describes himself as a “savage” and part of an “endangered species.” The reason there are “fewer than 50” editorial cartoonists today, he said at a Shorenstein Center event, is because of their “loss of habitat: a shrinkage in newspapers willing to put up

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Neutrality, simplicity critical in debates, says Commission’s Exec Director

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October 26, 2011 — “Debates matter,” said Institute of Politics Director Trey Grayson, in introducing Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, at an event co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the IOP. Grayson cited the example of Texas Governor Rick Perry whose poll ratings have dropped after appearances in GOP presidential

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Zeynep Tufekci: Tech tools can overcome ‘pluralistic ignorance’

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October 25, 2011 — To discuss the impact of technology on citizen and state dynamics, Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the Arab

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Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda

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October 24, 2011 – Seminar with Eric Schmitt, terrorism correspondent for The New York Times, and Thom Shanker, Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Moderators: Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée

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Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Columnist/Strategist Mark McKinnon

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October 15, 2011 – A conversation with Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico, and Mark McKinnon, global vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton and Public Strategies, and president of Maverick Media. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/gop-communications-strategist-mark-mckinnon-and-po Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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Columbia’s Emily Bell and MIT’s Joichi Ito

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October 15, 2011 – Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, speaks with Joichi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/columbias-emily-bell-and-mits-joichi-ito Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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Author Dan Okrent and NY Magazine’s Adam Moss

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October 14, 2011 – Dan Okrent, writer and editor, spoke with Adam Moss, editor-in-chief, New York magazine, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/author-dan-okrent-and-ny-mags-adam-moss Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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NYTimes’ David Carr and danah boyd, Harvard/NYU/Microsoft

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October 14, 2011 – New York Times columnist David Carr speaks with Harvard/NYU’s danah boyd, also senior researcher at Microsoft Research, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. A full transcript of the conversation between Carr and boyd can be downloaded here. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/nytimes-david-carr-and-danah-boyd Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center.

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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.

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