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February 2020
Keeping Public Media Relevant In a Time of Vast Change
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Wexner 434AB
Don Baer is a Spring 2020 Walter Shorenstein Fellow. He has had a career that spans roles as a media and communications executive for a range of business, government, political and non-profit enterprises. Since 2014 he has been the Chair of PBS’s Board of Directors. He is also the lead independent director and member of the Board of Directors of the Meredith Corporation, a publicly held media company that owns magazines, television stations and online services. From 2012-18, Baer was…
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Can media literacy reduce belief in false news? Evidence from the United States and India
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Wexner 434AB
Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Andrew Guess (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication, public opinion, and political behavior. Via a combination of experimental methods, large datasets, machine learning, and innovative measurement, he studies how people choose, process, spread, and respond to information about politics. Recent work investigates the extent to which…
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Speaker Series with April Glaser
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Wexner 434AB
April Glaser is a Spring 2020 Joan Shorenstein Fellow, and an investigative journalist at NBC News, covering the technology industry and labor and workplace culture in Silicon Valley. Previously, she worked at Slate, Recode, and Wired, reporting on AI, disinformation and hate online, and social media platforms. Before journalism, Glaser worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and various other nonprofits focusing on technology policy. She has appeared on NPR, BBC, MSNBC, and elsewhere. While at the Shorenstein Center, Glaser will…
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Speaker Series on Misinformation with Yochai Benkler
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Wexner 434AB
Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How social…
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Speaker Series with Ann Cooper
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Wexner 434AB
Ann Cooper is a Spring 2020 Joan Shorenstein Fellow, she has more than 25 years of radio and print reporting experience. She also worked as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists prior to joining the Columbia Journalism School faculty, where she retired in 2019 as CBS Professor Emerita of Professional Practice. Cooper’s voice was well known to National Public Radio listeners as NPR’s first Moscow bureau chief, covering the tumultuous events of the final five years of Soviet…
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Speaker Series on Misinformation with Young Mie Kim
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Wexner 434AB
Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science. Kim is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Kim’s research concerns media and politics in the age of data-driven digital media, specifically the role digital media play in political communication among political leaders, non-party groups (issue advocacy groups), and citizens. Kim’s recent research project, Project DATA (Digital…
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Speaker Series on Misinformation with Natalie Jomini Stroud
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Wexner 434AB
Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Natalie Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism, as well as the founding and current Director of the Center for Media Engagement in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. The Center for Media Engagement examines commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways of improving media. Stroud’s research…
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