February 6, 2018— Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan discussed the challenge of covering President Trump, public trust in media, social media platforms and news, and more during a visit to the Shorenstein Center. Below are some highlights of her conversation with Shorenstein Center Director Nicco Mele, as well as the full audio recording. The Shorenstein […]
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February 6, 2018— Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan discussed the challenge of covering President Trump, public trust in media, social media platforms and news, and more during a visit to the Shorenstein Center. Below are some highlights of her conversation with Shorenstein Center Director Nicco Mele, as well as the full audio recording. The Shorenstein
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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.
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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
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Sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Full details at the IOP website.
Lunch with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D, CT-03) and Professor Richard Parker Read More »
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The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles will discuss their collaborative book, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, & Driving Us Crazy, which, through satire, explores the thinking behind climate change denial in the face of overwhelming scientific
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Finalists include: Asbury Park Press, BuzzFeed News, Miami Herald, NPR and ProPublica, STAT and The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post; special citation for The New York Times. Cambridge, MA — Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard
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,
Investigative Reporting: Making an Impact on Policy and Governance Read More »
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
Goldsmith Awards Ceremony 2018 with Martha Raddatz of ABC News Read More »
Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. Sign up to receive Media and Politics Must Reads in your inbox each week. Also connect with us on Twitter and Facebook for more updates. This Week at the Shorenstein Center #DigitalDeceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda
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Over the past year, there has been rising pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter to account for how bad actors are exploiting their platforms. The catalyst of this so-called “tech-lash” was the revelation in summer 2017 that agents of the Russian government engaged in disinformation operations using these services to influence the 2016 presidential campaigns.
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Over the past year, there has been rising pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter to account for how bad actors are exploiting their platforms. The catalyst of this so-called “tech-lash” was the revelation in summer 2017 that agents of the Russian government engaged in disinformation operations using these services to influence the 2016 presidential campaigns.
#DigitalDeceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet Read More »
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
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