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 […]
Gwyneth Williams, veteran BBC journalist and 2020 Walter Shorenstein Fellow, is joined by historian and broadcaster Linda Colley (Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University) and Aleks Krotoski, presenter BBC’s The Digital Human. Rolling news, far from helping us understand the world, is often little more than background noise, even contributing to a brutalisation […]
This event has been cancelled. 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 […]
Don Baer, a Spring 2020 Walter Shorenstein Fellow and the Chair of PBS’s Board of Directors, is joined by Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS, and Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE Executive Producer. In 1961, the then-new Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow gave a speech that became famous in media history, because he denounced America’s […]
This event has been cancelled. A panel discussion with the finalists for the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Finalists include: The Arizona Republic, USA TODAY, and the Center for Public Integrity; Anchorage Daily News; The Oregonian/OregonLive; The Washington Post; Kaiser Health News; and NBC News. The winner will be announced at the Goldsmith Awards […]
This event has been cancelled. Since 1993 the Goldsmith Prize has been awarded to the very best investigative journalism of the year that holds power accountable by having a direct impact on government, politics and policy, at the state, national and local levels. The ceremony will be preceded by a panel discussion, from 3:30-5:00 pm, […]
As we become more isolated physically, social media and the web will also have to shoulder the world’s information needs as more and more people seek timely and local information. As misinformation swirls all around us, how should information on health and well-being be sorted, ranked, and prioritized in our media ecosystem? Misinformation isn’t only […]
The Technology and Social Change Research Team at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center will describe the phenomenon of “zoom bombing,” the act of hijacking a virtual meeting, and its consequences. This is not a Zoom training, it is an overview of security concerns surrounding Zoom and research relating to “Zoom bombing.” While many of us […]
Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center, will host a conversation with Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center and former Editor in Chief of TIME Magazine, Setti Warren, Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center and former Mayor of Newton MA, and Rob Faris, author of Network Propaganda and Senior Researcher at the Shorenstein […]
This webinar will explore how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities, fueled xenophobia, and harmed marginalized groups. How can policymakers, civil society, and media mitigate against discrimination by shining a light on health disparities? What does xenophobia look like in a time of social distancing? How has misinformation and disinformation inflamed these divides? And what can […]
This week BIG, If True welcomes Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute in conversation with Setti Warren, Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center and former Mayor of Newton MA. What do public health advocates need to know about misinformation research? Like our hospitals, our information systems are completely overwhelmed with questions, ranging […]
Do you ever wonder why certain technologies get made and others don’t? Most of the time the problem is resources, other times it’s because of breakthrough innovation, but in every case it’s also about politics. From “not in my backyard” campaigns shutting down nuclear power to activists fighting back against facial recognition, technology is a […]
In this week’s episode of BIG, If True, our host Joan Donovan, PhD asks: should we trust our search engines? Have joint industry efforts - led by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and LinkedIn - to limit misinformation been successful? How are new content policies specific to COVID-19 being enforced? And if so, at […]
Join us this week on BIG, If True as our host Joan Donovan dives into the promises and perils of communicating science to public audiences. While trust in our politicians and the press has waned in recent years, trust in scientists has remained remarkably steady. However, as we chart out new uncertainties and complex facts […]
In this episode of BIG, If True we’ll discuss the politicization of science and technology, looking closely at controversies about preprints, scientific articles posted to archives before they have been peer reviewed. In recent months, preprints have become a prefered way to get new findings into the hands of other scientists quickly, allowing researchers around […]
This week, BIG, If True, welcomes Lodrina Cherne, a digital forensics expert and Instructor at the SANS Institute in conversation with Joseph Menn, an investigative reporter on Cybersecurity at Reuters and Josephine Wolff, PhD an assistant professor of cybersecurity policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In this moment of unrest, […]
The Shorenstein Center will host an online book launch for Terms of Disservice, authored by senior fellow and co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project, Dipayan Ghosh. The event will feature Shorenstein Center director Nancy Gibbs, former Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign manager and HKS Defending Digital Democracy program director Robby Mook, and Politico chief […]
Join us for a conversation with Tara Westover, author of the award winning memoir, Educated, Gene Sperling, author of the new book Economic Dignity and Former Director of the National Economic Council For Presidents Clinton and Obama, and Setti Warren, Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center, on what’s really happening economically to people in communities […]
In this episode of BIG, If True, we’ll reflect on the hybrid battles being waged by journalists, activists, and dissidents against censorship and disinformation in Southeast Asia. The discussion will trace the genesis of the recent attacks on the freedom to expression, from the rise and fall of the Anti-Fake News Act in Malaysia to […]
The Technology and Social Change Project’s (TaSC) Political Pandemonium 2020 is a series of three digital workshops exploring the harmful effects of media manipulation on our society. These gatherings will each focus on a unique subtopic of interest to both the field of Critical Internet Studies and the broader public concerns about disinformation in elections. […]
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