September 14, 2010 — Arianna Huffington‘s talk, “The New Media Landscape,” was a tour through a world that the founder of The Huffington Post herself reshaped. She launched the blog-centered Huffington Post in 2005 in part as a counterweight to aggregation sites such as the Drudge Report. “The question of where you go for your news […]
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August 30, 2010 — The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be enriched by new Fellows, a Writer-in-Residence and visiting faculty this Fall. One of the most celebrated non-fiction writers of our time, Tracy Kidder, will be the first A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence. Kidder
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June 24, 2010 — Walter H. Shorenstein died on Thursday, June 24, at the age of 95. Shorenstein was the principal donor to the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, which was named after his daughter and founded in 1985. Mr. Shorenstein played an active role in the development of the
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Gene Gibbons Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2010 Former Executive Editor, Stateline.org Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Introduction I borrowed a wonderful quote from Ross Ramsey, managing editor of The Texas Tribune, for the title of this discussion paper. His is one of the more interesting Internet start-ups focusing on news coverage of state
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May 14, 2010 — The 2010 recipient of the Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia is Barbara Crossette, a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times. She is the author of several books on Asia, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas. Ms. Crossette was The New York Times
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April 30, 2010 – Panel discussion with Sheila Jasanoff, HKS STS Program; Henry Donahue, Discover; Gideon Gil, The Boston Globe; Joy Moore, Seed; Francesca Grifo, Union of Concerned Scientists; Chris Mooney, MIT and Discover; Jessica Palmer, Bioephemera; Amanda Gefter, New Scientist; Kimberley Isbell, Citizens Media Law Project; “Dr. Isis,” science blogs; Thomas Levenson, MIT; Sam Bayard, Citizen Media
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Deborah Amos Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2010 Correspondent, National Public Radio Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Abstract After the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, Iraq’s news media environment transformed almost overnight from the tightly controlled propaganda arm of Saddam Hussein’s rule into one of the most diverse and unrestricted news environments
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April 20, 2010 — At the final Shorenstein Center Speaker Series of the semester, Walter Robinson and Clay Shirky discussed how the case of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church illustrates the changing powers of old and new media. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University, is a former Boston Globe Pulitzer
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April 15, 2010 – “Oil and Conflict: A View from the Front Lines.” Discussion and media presentation with Peter Maass, Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center; and photographer Ed Kashi. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
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April 15, 2010 – “Health Care Reform through the Eyes of the Media.” Shorenstein Speaker Series event with David Broder, political correspondent and columnist, The Washington Post; Fellow, Institute of Politics (Fall ’69–Spring ’70); Shorenstein Center Advisory Board member. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics.
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