Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. This Week at the Shorenstein Center Spring 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellows. The Shorenstein Center announced the appointment of its spring 2016 fellows: Johanna Dunaway, associate professor of communication at Texas A&M […]
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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.
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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.
Fred Wertheimer: Citizens United and Its Disastrous Consequences: The Decision Read More »
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.
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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
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Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. This Week at the Shorenstein Center Are Women Underrepresented in News Coverage? From Journalist’s Resource. How Using Search Engines Impacts Voter Decisions, from Journalist’s Resource. Household Surveys: Problems, Usefulness in Collecting
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Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. This Week at the Shorenstein Center The Persistent Advocate: The New York Times’ Editorials and the Normalization of U.S. Ties with Cuba. On the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Cuban Thaw, a
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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
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A paper by Marie Sanz, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2015) and senior correspondent for Agence France Presse, examines The New York Times’ editorials on U.S.-Cuba relations over the past five decades, and the role of the press in the restoration of relations between the two countries. Since 1961, The New York Times editorial board consistently
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.
Showtime Getting In On 2016 “Circus” With Weekly Documentary Series Read More »
December 14, 2015 — Deborah Amos, former fellow and NPR international correspondent, covers this past weekend’s elections in Saudi Arabia. Listen on NPR.
For the First Time, Women Elected to Municipal Councils in Saudi Arabia Read More »
A paper by David Ensor, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2015) and former director of the Voice of America (VOA), makes the case for protecting and strengthening VOA as an independent journalistic voice in order to increase American soft power. VOA’s news programming, which is funded by the U.S. government but remains by law editorially independent,
Exporting the First Amendment: Strengthening U.S. Soft Power through Journalism 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. This Week at the Shorenstein Center Affirmative Action in University Admissions: Research Roundup, from Journalist’s Resource. Terrorism Sentencing: Challenges for Criminal Prosecutors in the U.S. and Abroad, from Journalist’s Resource. News
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December 10, 2015 — Zachary Karabell, former fellow, contributing editor at Politico, and head of global strategy at Envestnet, writes about how the shrinking of the middle class has fueled anger that is being channeled into support for Donald Trump. Read more on Politico.
Zachary Karabell: How the Economy Helps Trump Read More »
Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution featuring speakers: Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Photographer; 2016 Ruth Cowan Nash Nieman Fellow Susan Hackley, Managing Director, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Project Founder, A Child’s Guide to War This series is sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; the Nieman Foundation for Journalism; Program
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The Shorenstein Center hosts a weekly speaker series during the academic year, as well as other special events. With the semester coming to a close, we look back at the perspectives shared by our visiting speakers and fellows, who discussed some of today’s most pressing topics. Find audio and video for more events in our
December 5, 2015 — Tara McKelvey, former Shorenstein Center fellow and White House reporter for BBC News, writes about “people who’ve become radicalised under the radar,” such as Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook, who committed the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Read more on BBC.com.
Tara McKelvey: Becoming radicalised – and keeping a secret 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. This Week at the Shorenstein Center Criminal Justice in the Age of Big Data. How can technology and big data improve the U.S. criminal justice system? Read a summary and listen
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December 2, 2015 — John Geddes, former fellow and former New York Times managing editor, is joining Bloomberg to oversee U.S. political coverage. Read more on Folio.
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December 1, 2015 — Cristine Russell, former Shorenstein Center fellow and current advisory board member, journalist, and senior fellow at the HKS Belfer Center, writes about the range of coverage coming out of the United Nations Climate Summit – from the pessimistic, to live blogs, to a comic book format. Read more in Columbia Journalism Review.
Cristine Russell: At the Paris climate talks, media coverage takes a turn Read More »
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