January 25, 2016 — Spring 2015 fellow and former host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” discusses her initiative aimed at fostering dialogue about race on Vermont Public Radio.  Listen to the interview. 

January 25, 2016 — A BBC Radio 4 documentary by Michael Goldfarb, spring 1999 fellow, features an interview with Richard Parker, HKS lecturer in public policy affiliated with the Shorenstein Center. The documentary places Trump’s use of rhetoric that encourages fear within a larger history of paranoia in American political discourse. Listen to the documentary. 

January 25, 2016 — Thomas Patterson, Shorenstein Center interim director, discusses the media’s shortcomings in covering Donald Trump on WGBH’s “Greater Boston.” Watch the video. 

January 22, 2016 — Nazila Fathi, spring 2012 fellow and former Tehran bureau chief for The New York Times, participates in a discussion on “The Takeaway” about how global press freedom is threatened by politics and violence, and how censorship is changing in the digital age. Listen to the episode. 

January 20, 2016 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy, argued that the current refugee crisis was amplified by a failure of western intervention policies, the loss of control of European borders, and insufficient support for refugee camps, during two lectures he delivered at Central European University. Read a summary

January 18, 2016 — Judy Woodruff, fall 2005 fellow and PBS NewsHour anchor, leads a discussion about the takeaways from the January 16 Democratic debate. Watch the video on PBS NewsHour.

January 14, 2016 —  Peter Hamby, spring 2013 fellow, who joined Snapchat last April to lead its news efforts, will expand his oversight to another department, Local Stories. Read more in Variety. Also listen to audio from Hamby’s recent talk about Snapchat in the 2016 election.  

January 14, 2016 — Nicco Mele, Shorenstein Center advisory board member and former lecturer at the Center, will draw on digital and traditional media experience in his new USC Annenberg post. Read more at USC News.

January 14, 2016 — Fred Wertheimer, fall 1996 fellow and president of Democracy 21, reflects on the 6th anniversary of the Citizens United ruling, arguing that it has corrupted the electoral process, with “500 million in secret contributions” having been injected into federal elections since the decision. Read more on Huffington Post.

January 13, 2016 — Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, will bring his keen perspective and political insights back to CBS News as an occasional contributor throughout the 2016 election season. Read more.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of its spring 2016 fellows. “We have a remarkably diverse and talented group of fellows for the spring semester,” said Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press and

This annual prize of $25,000 is awarded to the journalist or journalists whose investigative reporting in a story or series of related stories best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy or the practice of politics. Five finalists will also be selected, and they will receive a prize of

December 15, 2015 — “The Circus: Inside The Greatest Political Show On Earth,” will take viewers behind the scenes of the 2016 presidential campaign,  and features two former Shorenstein Fellows, Mark Halperin and Mark McKinnon, and Kennedy School grad John Heilemann. Read more on Huffington Post.

December 14, 2015 — Deborah Amos, former fellow and NPR international correspondent, covers this past weekend’s elections in Saudi Arabia. Listen on NPR.