Jeff Ginsburg, executive director of the East Harlem Tutorial program, in conversation with Khalil Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the director of the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.   Jeff Ginsburg joined the East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP) as […]

Jill Abramson started as a reporter in the era of Watergate. She held senior editorial positions at the New York Times, where she was the first woman to serve as Washington bureau chief, managing editor, and executive editor. She spent nine years at the Wall Street Journal. She is also the co-author with Jane Mayer

Join us for a film screening and Q&A with Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman, director and producer of A Private War. In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Colvin is an utterly fearless and

Please join the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program for a lively discussion with The Washington Post’s national environmental reporter Brady Dennis and The Guardian’s Emily Holden on Tuesday, February 12 from 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4thFloor. Moderated by Cristine Russell, the event is cosponsored by the Shorenstein Center

Panel exploring the role of big technology companies on our democracy, including issues of privacy, competition, infrastructure, online abuse, and more. Featuring: Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy to President Barack Obama (2009) Dipayan Ghosh, Spring 2018 Pozen Fellow, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics

A panel discussion with the finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Finalists include: Alabama Media Group; The Dallas Morning News; The Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism with FRONTLINE; The Philadelphia Inquirer; ProPublica; The South Bend Tribune with ProPublica; and The Wall Street Journal The winner will be announced

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, in which finalists and special citation awardees

Please join us on for a highly visual panel discussion on the use of visual journalism for purpose and impact. The theme is visual media and storytelling for the social good, specifically in criminal justice reform and advocacy journalism on the issue- what can visual media do, and what do we want it to do, in framing human

Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished magazine journalist and historian, writes about politics, technology, and national security—helping to explain both where we’ve been and where we’re headed. He’s written for publications from WIRED and Esquire to Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the New York Times, and served as the editor of two of Washington’s most prestigious magazines, Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine, which he helped lead to its first

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. The recent rise of black propaganda and information warfare on social media has attracted strong interest from political communication scholars. Of particular concern is the practice of disinformational sockpuppetry, in which agents of foreign governments (including Russia and Iran) disguise themselves as American

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Health misinformation is a growing problem on social media – it spreads quickly, and has implications for both personal behaviors and public health. But social media also offers a unique context for correcting misinformation. Our research agenda explores this potential, considering who can