December 4, 2019
The Public Media Merger project is taking an in-depth look at the public media/digital newsroom mergers across the country in the last decade, to understand...
December 3, 2019
The Commons is a prototype of an imagined news outlet covering U.S. politics. It is the product of an eight-week discussion workshop this fall at...
August 13, 2019
The past half-decade has seen a digital subscription renaissance in the news publishing industry. Our research suggests publishers should invest in capabilities...
July 3, 2019
Local journalism is in crisis, off and online. Years of downsizing in the face of digital disruption have weakened regional and local news organizations....
June 3, 2019
The decline of the legacy media started long before the Internet, but the Internet exposed a business model that relied too heavily on the wrong customers....
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Disinformation,
International Affairs,
Journalistic Practice,
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Publications,
War, Defense & Security,
May 14, 2019
The New Media Propaganda Wars and the Value of a Second Draft
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A new paper by James Harkin, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall, 2018) and...
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April 29, 2019
Every era and every new medium — print, radio, television, cable, and the Internet — has found news essential to building and keeping audience. What does...
Business & Economics,
Discussion Papers,
International Affairs,
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News Business & Practice,
Papers,
Policy & Issues,
Public Interest Technology,
Publications,
Technology,
March 5, 2019
Internet access is coming to the other half of the planet through rapid expansion of broadband technologies. Media organizations that recognize the speed...
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Journalistic Practice,
Local News,
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February 12, 2019
The growing crisis in U.S. local news is making it increasingly urgent that local television outlets both improve the quality of news produced and chart...
January 16, 2019
After nearly a decade of decrying email as a rusty old relic of the early internet days, journalists and media outlets are coming to rely more and more...
Business & Economics,
International Affairs,
Media Business,
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December 19, 2018
The Brain Trust Initiative is a vision to unleash the power of digital media as a force for change across sub-saharan Africa.
Abstract:
Media in sub-Saharan...
November 1, 2018
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
The views expressed in the Shorenstein Center Fellows Research Paper Series...
October 26, 2018
Abstract: This paper analyzes the changes in traffic from Facebook to non- profit news organizations before and after the major change to the Facebook...
Business & Economics,
Media Business,
News Business & Practice,
Papers,
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September 6, 2018
The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or...
Business & Economics,
Discussion Papers,
Media Business,
News Business & Practice,
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September 6, 2018
The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or...
June 20, 2018
Co-published by the Shorenstein Center and Media Impact Funders.
Image credit: South Kern Sol, a youth media hub funded by The California...
June 20, 2018
Co-published by the Shorenstein Center and Media Impact Funders.
Image credit: South Kern Sol, a youth media hub funded by The California...
June 18, 2018
Working paper co-published by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University’s...
June 12, 2018
This playbook was written as part of a policy analysis exercise (PAE), an academic project where Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students develop solutions...
June 12, 2018
This playbook was written as part of a policy analysis exercise (PAE), an academic project where Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students develop solutions...
