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September 9, 2014 – To kick off the Speaker Series for the fall semester, the Shorenstein Center invited Robin Sproul of ABC News to discuss the challenges of reporting news in a shifting media landscape. Sproul, who was recently promoted to Vice President of Public Affairs for ABC News, outlined several ways that the news industry […]
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August 28, 2014 — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is pleased to announce its Joan Shorenstein Fellows for Fall 2014: Yavuz Baydar, Celestine Bohlen, John M. Geddes and Matthew Hindman.
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July 24, 2014 – Add to your summer reading list: Four new papers from Shorenstein Center Fellows and affiliates. Topics include how viral patterns affect the democratization of news, how press credentials are regulated, how reporters misrepresent economic information, and how NPR got its start. The Philosopher King and the Creation of NPR by Steve Oney, Joan […]
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June 24, 2014 – Author, scholar, journalist, former politician and Professor of Practice Michael Ignatieff has been named to the Edward R. Murrow Chair of Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). His full-time appointment begins July 1, and he will serve as a faculty affiliate at the School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics […]
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May 21, 2014 – Discussion with Aneesh Chopra, former (and first) U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Co-sponsored with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.
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May 16, 2014 – As part of Harvard Kennedy School’s IDEASpHERE conference, the Shorenstein Center hosted a discussion with Morra Aarons-Mele, MC/MPA 2008, founder of Women Online, and Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. The discussion centered around how the Internet has fostered a shift from institutions to individuals, and the power of a personal digital persona.
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April 28, 2014 – “Putin, Crimea—Back to the USSR? Approaches to Prevent, Resolve and Transform Conflict in US-Russian Relations.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Bruce Allyn, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project and Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Oregon Law School; and Jill Dougherty, Joan Shorenstein Fellow and former CNN foreign […]
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April 22, 2014 – In the midst of constant tracking and data mining from both the commercial and government spheres, is the whole idea of privacy dead? To find answers, Julia Angwin, senior reporter for ProPublica, forged a trail through the latest technology advancements to find out if she could still engage online in a meaningful way, while protecting important private data.
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April 17, 2014 – How are partisan media sources affecting the character of democracy? How extreme is media bias? What does the latest, deepest research say about these questions? These topics were the focus of the 2014 Partisan Media Seminar Series held at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and organized by Matthew Baum, Kalb […]
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April 15, 2014 – Deborah Amos, Middle East correspondent for NPR, said that in Syria, “there are at least five different wars” going on simultaneously. “It is the most complicated of all the conflicts in the Middle East,” yet the media is criticized for not getting it right.
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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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