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In March 2019, two projects at Harvard Kennedy School—the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project at the Belfer Center and the Platform Accountability...
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April 15, 2019
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The major digital platform companies present a large, complicated array of benefits and problems for...
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With trust in federal government and institutions at historic lows, local governments, including cities and counties, must play a critical role in the...
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The 2020 U.S. Census will, for the first time since 1950, ask about residents’ citizenship status. The effect of doing so on census completion across different...
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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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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.
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Media in sub-Saharan...
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November 20, 2018
The Sherman Act of 1890 was the first federal law to address business monopolies. Are antitrust laws a good framework for regulating today’s digital...
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November 1, 2018
Rules for the New Digital Economy Should Look to Old Common Law Traditions
There are 39 million books in the Library of Congress. This impressive analog...
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September 11, 2018—Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia,...
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September 11, 2018—Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia,...
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September 6, 2018
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A Shorenstein Center Fellows Research Paper by Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC under President Barack Obama, and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard...
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May 29, 2018
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In July of 2008, as a national broadcast correspondent, I reported...
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May 22, 2018
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The staffing of the American news media has never fully reflected the diversity of the nation. For most of the country’s history, Latino and...
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