Commentaries

The Shorenstein Center’s Commentary Blog brings together original writing and articles written by Shorenstein Center experts to provide context, explainers, and new research on topics in the news. 

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Commentary,
What I learned from my 7-year-old about the outcome of the election
November 12, 2024
My seven-year-old daughter has been learning about voting in her second-grade class. Over the past few...
Commentary, News Business & Practice, Press Freedom, Public Interest Journalism,
So What Now? Journalism under a second Trump administration
November 7, 2024
Veteran journalist Dick Tofel argues that journalists must focus on three things under the second Trump...
Commentary,
The Challenges of Nuclear "Miscalculation"
November 1, 2024
When a Russian leader threatens the use of tactical nuclear weapons, or, worse, a nuclear war, he immediately...
Commentary, News Business & Practice, Public Interest Journalism,
Two Billionaires, Two Newspapers, Two Acts of Self-Sabotage
October 27, 2024
Center Director Nancy Gibbs writes, "I’m not worried that Post and Los Angeles Times readers will have...
Commentary, Public Interest Journalism,
Information Overload? What to do about it this election season.
August 6, 2024
While DC and Silicon Valley debate the safety and societal guardrails of online platforms, people like...
Commentary, News Business & Practice, Public Interest Journalism,
The Debate Was a Mess. What We Pay Attention to Next Is What Matters - Nancy Gibbs in TIME
June 28, 2024
This essay was originally published in TIME on June 28, 2024 Debates are a test of candidates; post debates...
Public Interest Technology,
Banning TikTok? Walter Shorenstein Fellow Julia Angwin says Congress is missing the point
March 18, 2024
Julia Angwin The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on March 13th that would...
Commentary, Documentary Film in the Public Interest,
What’s at Risk in the Streaming Media Age
January 18, 2024
We’ve seen many press stories in the past year about the headwinds facing legacy entertainment media...
Commentary, Documentary Film,
A True Story of Reflection - With Love
December 18, 2023
On October 28, 2023 at the age of 86, my dad passed away, unexpectedly. And in the wake of his death,...
Commentary, Documentary Film, Public Interest Journalism,
New podcast: A “thousand” ways to make a good documentary
December 13, 2023
In my 40-year career in film and video I’ve known and worked in circles of documentarians who admire...
Commentary,
Americans in former Confederate states more likely to say violent protest against government is justified, 160 years after Gettysburg
June 28, 2023
Over the July Fourth long weekend, people will pour into the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,...
Commentary, News Business & Practice, Public Interest Journalism,
Muting Trump’s ‘megaphone’ easier said than done
June 23, 2023
Shorenstein Center professors Matthew Baum and Thomas Patterson talked to the Harvard Gazette about the...
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