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Will Geeks Save The World?
March 6, 2015
March 5, 2015 — A famous TIME magazine article in the 1990’s featured a cover with Bob Rubin, Alan Greenspan,...
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Unlocking Labor and Skills Data for America: A Roundtable Discussion with Business and Policy Leaders
March 5, 2015
March 5, 2015 — Job creation has been a priority of the Obama administration — the U.S. has seen over...
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Transforming Healthcare Delivery through More Open Data
March 5, 2015
March 5, 2015 — Last week at Harvard Kennedy School, we hosted a roundtable of several dozen healthcare...
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Miami Herald Wins the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
March 3, 2015
March 3, 2015, Cambridge, MA – The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from the Shorenstein...
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Matthew Baum: News coverage of civil conflict Is biased in both democracies and autocracies
February 26, 2015
February 26, 2015 — Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communication at the Harvard Kennedy...
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Dori Maynard: Reflections on technology and diversity in the news business
February 25, 2015
February 25, 2015 — Dori Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education,...
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Tech & Public Service Events
February 17, 2015
As part of HKS’s public service week,  the Shorenstein Center will hold a series of special events focusing...
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Remembering David Carr (1956-2015)
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center remembers New York Times media columnist David Carr, who passed...
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Seminars/Study Groups with Nick Sinai and Michele Norris
February 6, 2015
Data, Technology and Innovation in Government Seminar Series Led by Nick Sinai, Walter Shorenstein Media...
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David Weinberger: Getting straight about common carriers and Title II
February 5, 2015
February 4, 2015 — David Weinberger, Joan Shorenstein Fellow, explains why the reclassification of Internet...
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Shorenstein Center Announces Six Finalists for 2015 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
January 30, 2015
Finalists include: The Boston Globe, Miami Herald, The Post and Courier, ProPublica and NPR, Reuters...
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Shorenstein Director Discusses the Future of Journalism
January 29, 2015
January 29, 2015 — The Harvard Crimson covers a discussion with Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director,...
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Jeffrey Seglin to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award for Trust
January 24, 2015
January 26, 2015 —  Jeffrey Seglin, lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), has been...
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Michael Ignatieff: Does Democracy Have its Limits?
January 21, 2015
January 21, 2015 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at Harvard Kennedy School,...
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Nick Sinai: Uncle Sam Needs More Geeks
January 20, 2015
January 21, 2015 — “One of President Obama’s guests at this year’s State of the Union address was Kathy...
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Joan Shorenstein Fellowship Applications Due February 2, 2015
January 20, 2015
The mission of the Joan Shorenstein Fellowship Program is to advance research in the field of media,...
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Shorenstein Center Announces Spring 2015 Fellows
January 14, 2015
January 13, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School...
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Alex Jones to leave Shorenstein Center July 1, 2015
January 14, 2015
Dear Friends and Colleagues, After fifteen years as Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics...
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Response to Charlie Hebdo Attack from Carnegie-Knight Consortium of Journalism School Deans
January 3, 2015
Using terror to intimidate and throttle free speech is not new. And it must not be allowed to succeed. We,...
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Nick Sinai: 2015: Year of the Chief Data Officer
January 3, 2015
January 8, 2015 — “If government agencies are going to act as open platforms, shouldn’t they follow...
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