A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

Tom Wheeler served as the Chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama. For more than three decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services, experiencing the revolution in telecommunications as a policy expert, advocate, and businessman. As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies offering cable, […]

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.  Recent public attention and debate around “fake news” has highlighted the growing challenge of determining information veracity online. This is a complex and dynamic problem at the intersection of technology, human cognition, and human behavior—i.e. our strategies and heuristics for making […]

A panel discussion with the finalists and special citation awardees for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Panelists will discuss the making of their stories, which include coverage of the Russia investigation, injustice in the Chicago legal system, opioid addiction, sexual harassment and assault, and other pressing issues. Open to the public. Panelists:  Shannon Mullen, Staff Writer, […]

The winner of the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting will be announced, followed by a keynote speech by Goldsmith Career Award winner Martha Raddatz. This event is open to the public, and will also be streamed online. The ceremony will be preceded by a panel discussion, from 3:30-5:00 p.m., in which finalists and special […]

A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson is a historian at the University of Michigan, and is the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Blood in the Water was won the Ridenhour Prize, the J. Willard Hurst Prize, the Public Information […]

A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

Adam Serwer is a senior editor at The Atlantic, covering politics. He has previously worked for BuzzFeed News, MSNBC, Mother Jones and The American Prospect.

Carol Giacomo, of The New York Times Editorial Board and a former diplomatic correspondent for Reuters in Washington, in conversation with Professor Nicholas Burns. Presented by The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; cosponsored by the Shorenstein Center.

Talia Buford covers disparities in environmental impacts for ProPublica. Previously, she was an environment and labor reporter at The Center for Public Integrity, where her work focused mostly on wage theft and the Environmental Protection Agency's lackluster enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. She also covered energy for POLITICO Pro, and started […]

Join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation for a panel discussion with leading health care journalists about the rapidly shifting health policy landscape in Washington DC. The panel will discuss the high drama of a tumultuous year in health policy that has seen repeated congressional attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the […]

The Pan-Harvard Filipino Network invites you to a forum-discussion entitled Architects of Disinformation: Behind the Scenes of Troll Accounts and Fake News in the Philippines. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center, the Nieman Foundation, and the HKS Southeast Asia Caucus. Professor Jonathan Ong of UMass Amherst will present his report on the industry behind troll accounts and […]

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. The talk will highlight current research at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines where we develop methods for large scale analysis of social media and news. Based on our analytics, the talk will describe “ailments” of the public sphere […]

A writing workshop for students with Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence; staff writer, The New Yorker, covering  race, politics, history, and culture; and Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University. Co-sponsored with the HKS Communications Program.

EPPIC and Media PIC present a screening and talk with the Directors of “Get Me Roger Stone,” the acclaimed documentary of longtime GOP political operative Roger Stone and his role in orchestrating Donald Trump’s 2016 election as President of the United States. “Get Me Roger Stone” paints a comprehensive portrait of a Trump confidante described […]

A panel discussion featuring Koa Beck, editor-in-chief of Jezebel; Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate; Zerlina Maxwell, senior director of Progressive Programming for SiriusXM; Gabriel Sherman, special correspondent for Vanity Fair; and Genevieve Roth, Shorenstein Fellow (moderator). Cosponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program and Harvard IOP. Watch the live stream here. Koa Beck is the editor-in-chief of Jezebel […]

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Many of the ideas for sifting truth from fiction in news feeds entail Facebook embracing its currently-singular role as a social network. Relying on that centrality may seem efficient and beneficial in the short term, but it's a recipe for deep trouble in […]

Jelani Cobb is the current A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center. He is the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and a staff writer for The New Yorker, where he writes about race, politics, history, and culture. Previously, Cobb was Associate Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University […]

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Though some warnings about online “echo chambers” have been hyperbolic, tenden- cies toward selective exposure to politically congenial content are likely to extend to misinformation and to be exacerbated by social media platforms. We test this prediction using data on the factually dubious […]