Past Events

Join us for a conversation with Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation, moderated by Dr. Joan Donovan. Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with […]

Join us for a virtual conference to explore the questions: Why Diversity and Inclusion practices fail to achieve racial equity in the workplace, and when they succeed, what works? How do companies and consultants effectively transform organizations? The goal of the 2020 conference is to better understand the limitations of the “business case” for Diversity […]

This webinar is part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Election interference raises grave normative concerns. Unfortunately, due to conceptual and methodological challenges, little scientific knowledge has been generated about election interference. This talk discusses the mechanisms by which election interference occurred and the extent to which it influenced […]

Local newspapers are in peril. Although they continue to serve millions of Americans with vital information about their communities, newspapers face an extremely difficult environment. Private capital has stepped in to manage the business risk and take advantage of the remaining asset strength of newspapers. But the ownership, governance, and values of private capital do […]

Join us for a discussion with Tom Wheeler, Phil Verveer, Gene Kimmelman, Mignon Clyburn, and Jason Furman around the recently released paper "New Digital Realities; New Oversight Solutions in the U.S., The Case for a Digital Platform Agency and a New Approach to Regulatory Oversight" from the Shorenstein Center's Digital Platforms & Democracy Project. Registration for […]

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Social media platforms have struggled to address misinformation circulating on their platforms. It seems unlikely that they will be able to rid these digital spaces of misinformation altogether, which means that there is a need to provide corrective information. This talk will review […]

Join us for a webinar with 2019 David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism winner, James Goodman, and previous winners David von Drehle (2018) and Nancy Kaffer (2016). The conversation will be moderated by Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center. For 30 years, David Nyhan was a columnist and reporter at The Boston Globe. He was […]

The Institute of Politics and Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy host a discussion with newsroom leaders on navigating the complexity of Election coverage this November. Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center and former Editor-in-Chief of TIME, will be joined in conversation with Brian Carovillano, Vice President and Managing Editor of the […]

On Wednesday, October 28th at 6:00pm ET, join us for the 30th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, delivered by Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, with Shorenstein Center Director Nancy Gibbs moderating. As the 2020 election quickly approaches, are there similarities to 2016 or is this a continuation of an unprecedented cycle in political history? How has the […]