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Disagreeing Better in a Polarized World: A conversation with Julia Minson and Todd Rogers

Disagreeing Better in a Polarized World: A conversation with Julia Minson and Todd Rogers

This second event on Julia Minson’s new book, How to Disagree Better, will feature a fireside chat between Minson and fellow Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Todd Rogers exploring depolarization as a growing challenge, the promise of behavioral science approaches, and the difficulties of designing interventions that truly work.

 

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HKS campus, Taubman Building, Nye ABC
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM

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2026 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony

2026 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony

A celebration of journalism and storytelling that impact public policy and the functioning of government.

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JFK Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

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Holtzman says digital ‘impulsivity’ and ‘permanence’ threaten privacy

Holtzman says digital ‘impulsivity’ and ‘permanence’ threaten privacy

October 12, 2010 — Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones introduced David Holtzman as “one of the most authoritative voices” in the area of digital privacy. Holtzman is the former CTO of Network Solutions and author of Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy. Holtzman opened his Shorenstein Center talk by asking the audience […]

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Shooting in the Wild

Shooting in the Wild

October 7, 2010 – Environmental Filmmaking Workshop with Chris Palmer, MPA ’79, Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking.

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Hart: Democrats will hold Senate, GOP will take House in midterms

Hart: Democrats will hold Senate, GOP will take House in midterms

October 7, 2010 — Twenty-six days out from the 2010 midterm elections, Peter D. Hart looked at whether Democrats should expect a “Category 3 or 5 Hurricane.” The chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates and one of the leading U.S. analysts of public opinion survey research spoke at a Shorenstein Center event co-sponsored with […]

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Panel looks at legacy of David Halberstam, future of news

Panel looks at legacy of David Halberstam, future of news

October 6, 2010 — David L. Halberstam died doing what he loved, hunting down a story. The intrepid author, reporter, and Harvard graduate who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War, which called into question the American military strategy in the conflict, died in a 2007 car crash. He was 73, […]

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Microsoft’s Jaron Lanier sees need for online ‘middle class’

Microsoft’s Jaron Lanier sees need for online ‘middle class’

October 4, 2010 — Jaron Lanier, partner architect at Microsoft Research and innovator in residence at the Annenberg School of the University of Southern California, led a Shorenstein Center discussion about “Seeing Through the Fog of Digital Fads.” Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget … A Manifesto, explained that what is needed in […]

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Adair describes new form of accountability journalism

Adair describes new form of accountability journalism

September 28, 2010 — In his Shorenstein Center discussion, “Reinventing the News Story for the Internet Age,” Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact and Washington bureau chief of The St. Petersburg Times, contradicted the idea that this is “a terrible time for journalism.” Adair is “optimistic about countless opportunities” for journalism, and believes we are on […]

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Discussion with Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize–winner

Discussion with Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize–winner

September 27, 2010 – Discussion with Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize–winner; columnist for The New York Times; author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Co-sponsored with the Future of Diplomacy Project, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Women and Public Policy Program and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, […]

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Democracy and New Media

Democracy and New Media

September 23, 2010 – Panel discussion with Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies; Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy; Clay Shirky, Visiting Murrow Lecturer; and Zephyr Teachout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Moderated by Tom Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Part of the Belfer Center’s Technology and Governance 2.0 conference.

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Suskind says good journalism affronts ‘message management’

Suskind says good journalism affronts ‘message management’

September 14, 2010— Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and nonfiction author of The Way of the World and The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind spoke at a Shorenstein Center event about “Truth-telling versus Message Control: A Dilemma for Sources and Reporters.” There has been a shift in focus on the perception of the message rather than on […]

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Theodore H. White Lecture

Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics

Inaugurated in 1989, the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, politician or historian on a topic at the intersection of media and politics. Past lecturers include Jill Lepore, John Lewis, William Safire, and Walter Cronkite.

Nancy Gibbs and Preet Bharara have a fireside chat during the 2019 Salant Lecture.
Salant Lecture

Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press

The Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, scholar or practitioner on a topic related to press freedom or freedom of speech.

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