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“Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War”

Audio & Video, Past Events / By Mark Gilchrist

Vassilis Coutifaris, program manager of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), moderated a conversation with Marvin Kalb, nonresident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, senior advisor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and founding director of the Shorenstein Center, about his new book “Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign […]

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What is Stronger Than Hate? Lessons from Testimony, Media, and Scholarship

Disinformation, Events, Past Event Recordings, Public Interest Journalism / By Liz Schwartz

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and the USC Shoah Foundation, joined Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Southern California President Carol Folt on April 27, 2021 for an event celebrating Harvard University’s subscription to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, making the archive available

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Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology

Events, Past Event Recordings, Public Interest Tech / By Liz Schwartz

This book talk with the authors of “Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology” took place on April 22, 2021, hosted by Professor Latanya Sweeney, Kathy Pham, and David Eaves. It was co-sponsored by the new Public Interest Tech Lab at the Shorenstein Center, and supported by the Teaching Public Service in

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Epistemic Motivations, Political Identity, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election

Audio & Video, Disinformation, Events, Past Event Recordings, Past Events / By Liz Schwartz

Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. This event occurred on April 22, 2021. More about the speaker and the research can be found below the video. Abstract: Dannagal G. Young and Erin Maloney While misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 election are attributable to various informational, political, and psychological

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Where are they now? Securing Roles in Tech and Society

Events, Past Events, Public Interest Tech / By Mark Gilchrist

Shorenstein Center Senior Fellow Kathy Pham moderated this discussion with Harvard Kennedy School and MIT alumni working in the nexus of tech, product, policy, and society.

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The Environment for Tech Regulation

Events, Past Events, Tech Policy / By Liz Schwartz

This event was part of the Shorenstein Center Alumni Fellows Speaker Series, and was held on April 16, 2021. Former Commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Tom Wheeler (Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 Walter Shorenstein Fellow) and Michael Copps (Fall 2013 Shorenstein Fellow) joined Shorenstein Center Research Director Joan Donovan for a conversation about

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Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Center News, Events, News, Past Events, Prizes & Lectures, Public Interest Journalism / By Allie Henske

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to present the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to: “Mississippi’s Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System” by Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo, Anna Wolfe, and Michelle Liuof The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, and the USA TODAY Network. The Goldsmith

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A Study of Confucius Institute Teachers Around the World

Audio & Video, Disinformation, Events, Past Events / By Allie Henske

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 – Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and an Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. Her research resides at the intersection of political communication and authoritarian politics, showing how authoritarian governments work

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HKS Misinformation Review Special Issue: Propaganda Analysis Revisted

Disinformation, News / By Liz Schwartz

The HKS Misinformation Review’s latest special issue presents peer-reviewed articles that place the current field of misinformation research into historical perspective. Guest edited by A.J. Bauer (University of Alabama) and Anthony Nadler (Ursinus College).

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Big, If True Webinar: Playing with Fireworks: The Aura of Illicit Data

Big If True, Disinformation, Events, Past Events, Public Interest Journalism, Public Interest Tech, Tech Policy / By Allie Henske

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 – On this episode of BIG, If True, our host Joan Donovan, PhD talks about surveillance and the ethics of data collection in research and journalism with Shorenstein Center Fellow and Professor Chris Gilliard, Julia Angwin, Editor In Chief and Founder of The Markup, and Albert Fox Cahn, the Founder and Executive Director of the Surveillance

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Big, If True Webinar: Deeper States: The Proliferation of Networked Conspiracies Online

Big If True, Disinformation, Events, Past Events / By Allie Henske

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 – On this episode of BIG, If True, our host Joan Donovan, PhD is joined by NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny, a reporter on the disinformation beat whose strategic early reporting on Qanon during the pandemic was critical, The New Yorker’s David Rohde, author of In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State,”

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