CAMBRIDGE, MA – Nicco Mele, Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California and former Senior Vice President and Deputy Publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has been named the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dean Douglas […]

April 20, 2016 — Jackie Calmes, spring 2015 fellow and national correspondent for The New York Times, covers the forthcoming changes to $5, $10 and $20 bills. Read more in The New York Times. 

April 19, 2016 — Matthew Nisbet, associate professor at Northeastern University and fall 2012 fellow, spoke to Eduardo Porter of The New York Times for his column on how “Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Progress on Climate Change.” Nisbet also spoke to the Associated Press about a new study at the journal Nature that sparked unusually critical

April 18, 2016 — Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and spring 2006 fellow, writes that the publication of the Panama Papers demonstrates that “public accountability should not be confined by the borders and orthodoxies of traditional journalism.” Read more in The Guardian. 

April 13, 2016 — A US News article by Marilyn Thompson, current Joan Shorenstein Fellow and deputy editor at Politico, and Andrew Levine, HKS student, analyzes how Donald Trump has “created his own news cycle” to dominate the airwaves – receiving 54 percent of TV media mentions of GOP candidates. Read more.

April 11, 2016 — Dan Kennedy, current Joan Shorenstein Fellow and associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, weighs in on The Boston Globe’s parody front page, which envisioned a Donald Trump presidency. Read more at WGBH News.

April 8, 2016 — James Carroll, author and spring 1997 fellow, writes that “for years, priests have been quietly defying the Vatican on family issues. Now Pope Francis has brought them out of the shadows.” Read more in The New Yorker.

April 8, 2016 — Diane McWhorter, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center in 2014 and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, explores the questions raised by Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman. “Now more than five decades after Harper Lee first awakened so many (white) people to their moral potential, we still need to be told that black

April 6, 2016 — BBC reporter and current Joan Shorenstein Fellow Joanna Jolly discusses her research into the aftermath of the infamous Delhi gang rape in 2012. She describes the various ways in which news outlets covered the story and how they influenced Indian society’s response. Listen on Harvard Kennedy School’s PolicyCast.