Seth K. Goldman is Honors Associate Professor of Communication at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Communication and Commonwealth Honors College. His research investigates the effects of mass media and political communication on stereotyping and prejudice, particularly around public opinion about race, gender, and sexuality. Goldman is the […]
Phillip Martin is a senior investigative reporter for The GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting. He is the recipient of dozens of journalism honors including two National RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards and the 2017 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for Investigative Reporting. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Phillip Martin was NPR’s
Brian Stelter is a nationally recognized media reporter and expert on the state of journalism and its wide-reaching implications for society and governance. Until August 2022 he was the anchor of “Reliable Sources,” which examined the week’s top media stories every Sunday on CNN, and the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide. Prior to joining
Jenna Ruddock works at the intersection of law, technology, and media. Prior to joining the Shorenstein Center, Jenna was a Senior Researcher with the Tech, Law & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law. She is also a documentary photographer and producer with a background in public media and factual streaming. She earned
Carey K. Morewedge is a Professor of Marketing and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University. His research examines the psychological causes, consequences, and correction of bias in judgment and decision making. Using a mix of laboratory, field, and longitudinal experiments, he tackles basic and applied problems from why people won’t bet against
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Kasia Chmielinski is the Co-Founder of The Data Nutrition Project, an initiative that builds tools to mitigate bias in artificial intelligence. As a Shorenstein Fellow, their focus will be on policy and tooling mechanisms to drive responsible algorithmic systems. They are also a Senior Researcher at the Partnership on AI with a focus on machine
Jasmine McNealy is an attorney and associate professor in Media Production, Management and Technology in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, where she is also the Associate Director of the Marian B. Brechner First Amendment Project. McNealy is an internationally recognized scholar whose research is interdisciplinary, centered at the intersection of
Gideon Yago began his career as a reporter and producer for MTV News and Documentaries and CBS News. He has participated in Emmy, Peabody and Murrow award-winning broadcasts primarily designed to encourage youth engagement in politics, social activism and media literacy. He was the host, creator and producer of ‘The IFC Media Project’, a documentary series
Anjuli (@AnjuliRKShere) is an analyst, writer, and researcher, currently in the final year of her doctorate in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford. Anjuli’s research, which she is continuing as a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center, investigates emerging threats to journalists from new internet-connected technologies. She is particularly interested in exploring these issues
Dr. Alauna Safarpour is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy. She earned her Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 2021. Her research areas of interest include race and ethnic politics, public opinion, and participation. Specifically, her research focuses on creating better
A journalist in Asia for 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler, the top digital only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. As Rappler’s CEO and president, Maria has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government, forced to post bail ten times to stay free. Rappler’s
Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany, where she researches and teaches online extreme speech, ethical artificial intelligence, digital politics, news and journalism, and media policy. In 2016, she received the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) starting grant award for a five-year study on digital politics. In 2020,
Craig Forman is a technology, media and telecom entrepreneur and executive. He is West Coast general partner of NextNews Ventures and former president and CEO of McClatchy Co., where he led the digital transformation and corporate restructuring of such businesses as The Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer and newsrooms in 30 cities across
Marya’s areas of expertise include intersectional theory, racial and gender inequality, internet disinformation and African-American political engagement. As a postdoctoral fellow, her current research focuses on the impact of online political misinformation within African-American communities. The project focuses on two central issues, with the first dealing with social epistemology and understanding how African-Americans engage with
Kristin’s research adopts a political psychology framework to investigate two often interrelated areas relevant to politics: identity/intergroup dynamics and misinformation. She researches the urban-rural divide with particular attention to rurality as a social identity in contemporary politics, and how rural identity relates to class, race, populism, immigration, and health and science attitudes. In addition, she
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Robert Walker is a visiting fellow having previously been a Joan Shorenstein Fellow during the 2021 Spring Semester. He is interested in impartiality in the international news coverage of international affairs and, in 2021, focused on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is currently extending this research with a focus on vaccine diplomacy while
Franz Krüger is Adjunct Professor and head of the Journalism department at Wits University in Johannesburg, and director of the Wits Radio Academy. He worked in professional journalism for many decades, including as senior member of the first post-apartheid editorial management team at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). He holds a BA from the
Iris Adler is a former reporter, News Director, and Executive Director for Programming and Podcasts at WBUR Radio. In these roles she reported widely on Boston and New England and helped oversee the station’s news coverage, special projects and national and local programming. Most recently, she created WBUR’s Innovation Lab where she oversaw new initiatives, including
Sami Mahdi is the Bureau Chief of Radio Azadi (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) in Afghanistan. He was previously Director of PAYK Investigative Journalism Center and Strategic Advisor to Tolonews. He worked as C.E.O. of Khurshid TV from 2013-2014 and as Director of News and Current Affairs at 1TV from 2009-2013. He has also been an op-ed
Jennifer Preston was most recently Vice President for Journalism at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more than six years she oversaw an ambitious expansion of Knight’s portfolio to help address the gaps in local original reporting and equitable community information, halt the spread of mis/disinformation, and fund legal resources for journalists to hold the powerful
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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