Events

This event aired on May 28, 2021 as part of the Shorenstein Center’s new Alumni Fellows Network speaker series, featuring former Shorenstein fellows discussing major topics in the news, and their current work.

This event aired on May 28, 2021 as part of the Shorenstein Center’s new Alumni Fellows Network speaker series, featuring former Shorenstein fellows discussing major topics in the news, and their current work.  The trial of Derek Chauvin sparked national conversations about violent policing and racial injustice. In its wake, how should policy makers, police, and journalists […]

The trial of Derek Chauvin sparked national conversations about violent policing and racial injustice. In its wake, how should policy makers, police, and journalists respond? The New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb (Spring 2018 Shorenstein Writer in Residence) and BBC correspondent Tara McKelvey (Fall 2012 Shorenstein Fellow) — who both covered the trial from Minneapolis — will join The Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer (Spring 2019 Shorenstein […]

Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. This event occurred on May 5, 2021. More about the speaker and the research can be found below the video. Users’ perspectives on what f*ke news and misinformation is and isn’t, who drives it, and where people say they see it are important […]

Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, uses survey data and focus group material from Reuters Institute research to present an overview of user perspectives on “fake news” and misinformation.

This event was held on April 29, 2021, and co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Marvin Kalb, nonresident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, senior advisor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and founding director of the Shorenstein Center, discusses his new book “Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War.”

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and the USC Shoah Foundation, joined Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Southern California President Carol Folt on April 27, 2021 for an event celebrating Harvard University’s subscription to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, making the archive available to the Harvard community.

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and the USC Shoah Foundation, joined Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Southern California President Carol Folt on April 27, 2021 for an event celebrating Harvard University’s subscription to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, making the archive available […]