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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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March 4, 2025
In October, 2018, I stood inside a drafty community center tucked under a bridge over a quiet side street...
March 4, 2025
Three years ago, as Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border, the world witnessed more than a...
February 18, 2025
Alone among industries, the free press is protected in the Bill of Rights because accountability is foundational...
January 14, 2025
Accountability systems should reflect the prodigious influence these companies have over our lives.
December 5, 2024
Incessant sirens are easily ignored, and a media focused on the facts, not the threats, could do a public...
November 12, 2024
My seven-year-old daughter has been learning about voting in her second-grade class. Over the past few...
November 7, 2024
Veteran journalist Dick Tofel argues that journalists must focus on three things under the second Trump...
November 1, 2024
When a Russian leader threatens the use of tactical nuclear weapons, or, worse, a nuclear war, he immediately...
October 27, 2024
Center Director Nancy Gibbs writes, "I’m not worried that Post and Los Angeles Times readers will have...
August 6, 2024
While DC and Silicon Valley debate the safety and societal guardrails of online platforms, people like...
June 28, 2024
This essay was originally published in TIME on June 28, 2024
Debates are a test of candidates; post debates...
March 18, 2024
Julia Angwin
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on March 13th that would...
January 18, 2024
We’ve seen many press stories in the past year about the headwinds facing legacy entertainment media...
December 18, 2023
On October 28, 2023 at the age of 86, my dad passed away, unexpectedly. And in the wake of his death,...
December 13, 2023
In my 40-year career in film and video I’ve known and worked in circles of documentarians who admire...
June 28, 2023
Over the July Fourth long weekend, people will pour into the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,...
June 23, 2023
Shorenstein Center professors Matthew Baum and Thomas Patterson talked to the Harvard Gazette about the...
June 1, 2023
According to Professor Julia Minson, focusing on your own behavior (rather than how you think or feel)...
May 31, 2023
Shorenstein Center Director Nancy Gibbs offers her commentary on the Most Trusted Person in America and...
May 16, 2023
CNN might have lost its soul when it recently invited Donald Trump to a live town hall meeting, but it...
