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Snowden is a ‘polarizing force,’ says Post’s Barton Gellman

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October 15, 2013 – As one of only three people with direct contact to Edward Snowden, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bart Gellman shared with the Shorenstein Center how the Snowden leaks about the NSA have affected the U.S. government, marketplace and democracy. Snowden’s greatest fear, Gellman said, was that either “he would be preempted” in his attempt to […]

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Ta-Nehisi Coates points to a history of systemic racism that has led to today’s dual society

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October 8, 2013 – Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor, writer and blogger for The Atlantic, shared with the Shorenstein Center his thoughts on the dual society in America – its historical beginning, its impact on policy, and what implications it might have on the country’s future. Coates, who is also the Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar at MIT,

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Bloomberg’s Exec. Editor Focused on Transparency in Financial Reporting

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October 1, 2013 – Financial reporting is crucial to a fair and functioning democracy, said Laurie Hays, Senior Executive Editor for Beat Reporting at Bloomberg News. The challenge that financial reporters face, she said, is presenting complex economic issues in a way that large audiences can understand. Yet it is important because “the bottom line is…the bottom

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Negotiating Women’s Roles in Complex International Environments

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September 30, 2013 – “Negotiating Women’s Roles in Complex International Environments.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Fouzia Saeed, Human rights activist and educator in Pakistan and Beena Sarwar, Pakistani journalist and filmmaker. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public

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David Rohde of Reuters describes Sec. Kerry as ‘activist’ who takes risks

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September 24, 2013 – A few hours after President Obama’s speech to the UN General Assembly, the Shorenstein Center welcomed David Rohde, investigative journalist for Thomson Reuters, to speak about his observations in traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry and how U.S. policy is changing in the Middle East.

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Salon’s Joan Walsh suggests a way to eliminate racial and political polarization

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September 17, 2013 – Joan Walsh, editor-at-large of Salon.com and a political analyst for MSNBC, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about racial change and political polarization. “When politics gets almost completely racialized…and race gets thoroughly politicized,” she said, “it’s trouble for a country that was founded on E pluribus unum, and that has believed the core of American exceptionalism, in my mind, is the ability to bring people together.”

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Media and Politics in Washington, D.C.

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September 10, 2013 – Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and Political Director, discussed the political system in the U.S. and the dysfunction of the two parties, and how Obama’s role has shifted. Listen to the audio on SoundCloud or iTunesU. If the story below doesn’t load properly, click here to view in Storify. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/chuck-todd-media-and-politics-in-washington-d-c

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Riptide: Digital Disruption of the News Business

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September 9, 2013 – A panel discussion with Tim Armstrong, AOL; Caroline Little, Newspaper Association of America; Arthur Sulzberger Jr., The New York Times. Moderated by former Shorenstein Center Fellows John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz and Paul Sagan. Watch the video: About the Project: The Riptide project was conceived and executed at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy by three Shorenstein Center Fellows during the Spring 2013

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Peter Hamby

Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?
Searching for a better way to cover a campaign

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In a new paper released by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, Spring 2013 Fellow Peter Hamby, who covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential races for CNN, examines the challenges of reporting on a modern political race in today’s volatile online media ecosystem.

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Shorenstein Center Welcomes Leaders in Media and Political Journalism for Fall 2013

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August 28, 2013 – The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce its 2013 Fall Fellows and Visiting Faculty. “Our Fellows and Visiting Faculty for the fall semester range from one of the nation’s most respected political analysts to a crusading FCC commissioner,

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HKS alum and faculty speak at the 2013 Personal Democracy Forum

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June 6-7, 2013 – Harvard Kennedy School Adjunct Lecturer Nicco Mele spoke at the 10th annual Personal Democracy Forum in New York City about “The Unwritten Future of Personal Democracy.” HKS alums Kate Krontiris and Kathryn Peters spoke about “Reimagining the Future of American Elections,” and Steve Grove spoke on “How Hangouts Are Improving Public Conversations.” Click here to watch the videos.

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Google’s Richard Gingras encourages innovation in media outlets to fit technological environment

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April 30, 2013 – Google’s head of news and social products Richard Gingras spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the evolution of the news ecosystem, and how media institutions can stay relevant in a changing technological landscape.

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The Clash of Values in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings

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April 29, 2013 – “The Clash of Values in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Souad Mekhennet, Nieman Fellow and reporter who contributes to The New York Times, Der Spiegel and ZDF (German Television); and Denis Sullivan, Profesor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Center for

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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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