Shorenstein Center fellow Sylvia Chou will discuss the challenges facing health misinformation research, including pressures on federal funding and scientific inquiry, and identify priorities for advancing the field. This event is part of The Misinformation Speaker Series.
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Zoom & Northeastern University, 216 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd floor
12:00 PM ET
Olivier Sylvain will discuss how decades of communications policy shaped today’s internet, drawing on his new book, Reclaiming the Internet, to explore what this history means for online platforms and AI. This event is part of The Misinformation Speaker Series.
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Zoom & Northeastern University, 216 Massachusetts Ave, 3rd floor
4:00 PM ET
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November 9, 2010 — David All, founder of TechRepublican.com and president of the David All Group, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “How to Reach, Engage and Empower Brand Activists.” As an early Republican blogger on Capitol Hill, All says he “learned quickly the power of earned media,” and found that he could “create media […]
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November 2, 2010 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist, to discuss this year’s midterm campaign’s particular influx of political attack ads. This has been “the most expensive midterm election in the history of the country,” said Loth, with more than $4 billion spent on advertising. There has been […]
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November 1, 2010 — In his Shorenstein Center discussion, “Twenty-first Century Statecraft,” Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sketched the impact of technology on the historical tension between open and closed societies. Ross said there is a “contest buried within” every historical society: “the struggle between open […]
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October 29, 2010 – A discussion of editorial choice in the context of a lack of coverage about the Pakistan floods and their aftermath. Co-sponsored with the South Asia Initiative, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and the Harvard Pakistan Student Group.
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October 28, 2010 — In reflecting on today’s media world, 2010 Salant Lecturer Marcus Brauchli looked back to the roots of the organization he leads, The Washington Post. Founded in 1877, it was just one in a universe of left- and right-leaning publications. Now, Brauchli said, “we are once again on a frontier.” As executive […]
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October 26, 2010 – Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times. Moderated by R. Nicholas Burns. Co-sponsored with the Future of Diplomacy Project.
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October 26, 2010 — Board president and former executive director of MoveOn.org, Eli Pariser presented his research on “Algorithms, the News and Democracy” at a Shorenstein Center event. Introducing Pariser, Clay Shirky, Visiting Murrow Lecturer, explained that while there are “a lot of people who understand the technology really well but don’t understand the society […]
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October 21, 2010 — Mark McKinnon, Republican political advisor, president of Maverick Media, and the vice-chairman of Public Strategies, Inc., joined the Shorenstein Center for an event discussing “The Hotter the Water, the Stronger the Tea Party.” McKinnon opened his talk with a video clip that showed highlights of the past few months in the […]
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October 21, 2010 — When Eric Pooley started writing The Climate War three years ago, he didn’t think the book was going to be a “whodunit.” At the time, he recalled, the climate-change debate was shifting from scientific questions to matters of politics and economics — “‘Is this real?’ to ‘What the heck are we […]
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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.
Theodore H. White Lecture
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.
Salant Lecture
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