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Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick: Supreme Court increasingly wary of the media and Internet

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October 28, 2014 — Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate and a prominent legal analyst, expressed deep concerns about the relationship between the press and the U.S. Supreme Court, noting that the Justices have become “increasingly mistrustful” of news media. “They think we are a bunch of gossips,” Lithwick told a Shorenstein Center audience. “Universally, […]

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Charles M. Blow of The New York Times: “Equality for everyone is not only right but is a moral imperative”

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October 21, 2014 — Journalist Charles M. Blow, author of the new memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, discussed his early career in journalism and the development of his distinctive, data-driven columns for The New York Times, which he said are motivated by “passion.” “I’m writing to make the case that equality for everyone

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Mark Halperin and John Heilemann to deliver 2014 Theodore H. White Lecture at the Shorenstein Center

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October 23, 2014 — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), announced that this year’s Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics will be jointly delivered by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, managing editors of Bloomberg Politics. The lecture will take place Monday, December 1,

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Thomas E. Patterson: Why trustworthy and relevant information has become a scarce commodity

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October 27, 2014 — Thomas E. Patterson of the Shorenstein Center explores why misinformation is on the rise and what can be done. Part of a series of essays marking the launch of the U.S. edition of The Conversation website, which features scholarly perspectives on news topics. Read more…

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Charles Lewis speaks at the Shorenstein Center

Investigative journalist Charles Lewis: Media-university partnerships needed to boost journalism — and civic integrity

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October 14, 2014 — Charles Lewis, a pioneering journalist who founded the Center for Public Integrity and who now serves as a faculty member at American University, said part of the future of investigative news involves new “hybrid” models that pair universities and media outlets. “These worlds are merging, and we need to acknowledge it

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Michael Crowley, chief foreign affairs correspondent for Time magazine

Michael Crowley of Time magazine: Traveling the globe and witnessing America’s changing role

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October 7, 2014 — Michael Crowley, chief foreign affairs correspondent for Time magazine, gave a sweeping tour of a life spent covering stories from the Middle East to Mexico, revealing the tensions inherent in trips with government officials as well as the challenges that America is facing globally. Most recently Crowley traveled with John Kerry to Iraq, Saudi

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Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report: Republicans likely to take U.S. Senate in 2014

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September 30, 2014 — Amy Walter, National Editor of the Cook Political Report, said that the outcomes of the 2014 midterm elections have the potential not only to shift control of the Senate, but also to give a strong indication of where the country is headed into the 2016 presidential election. Democrats knew they were

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Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center

Alex S. Jones: Journalism in the Era of ISIS and Ferguson

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Alex Jones, Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, speaks about the dangers facing journalists both abroad in Syria and at home in places like Ferguson, Missouri. Part of the Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast series.

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BuzzFeed’s Miriam Elder: Thinking of New Ways to Cover the World

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September 23, 2014 — Putting the “new” back in “news” is the goal of BuzzFeed’s growing coverage of global affairs, said Miriam Elder, foreign editor for the online media outlet. BuzzFeed World, which started in August 2013, has been hiring correspondents and “trying to think of new ways to cover the world,” Elder told a

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Hendrik “Rick” Hertzberg speaks at the Shorenstein Center (Nancy Palmer)

Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker: Reform the Presidential Election System to Promote Greater Civic Health

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September 16, 2014 — Hendrik “Rick” Hertzberg, senior editor at the New Yorker and longtime political commentator, returned to the Shorenstein Center to discuss reform of presidential elections, advocating revision of the Electoral College system through a new state “compact” that would honor the national popular vote. A former Shorenstein Fellow, Hertzberg said that, in

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