August 10, 2015 — Thomas Patterson, acting director of the Shorenstein Center and Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, was quoted in a Columbia Journalism Review article about the pitfalls of relying on polling numbers provided by campaigns.  “Internal polling is ‘being reported more often because it’s really easy journalism,’ said Patterson. ‘In this environment […]

August 4, 2015 — Zachary Karabell, former Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 1997), contributing editor at Politico, and head of global strategy at Envestnet, writes about Hillary Clinton’s efforts to win over both the middle class and business interests. Read more on Politico.

July 29, 2015 — Diane McWhorter, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center in 2014 and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has won a Public Scholar grant from the NEH to write a nonfiction book about the intersection of the space race and the civil-rights movement in Huntsville, Alabama. Read more in The Boston Globe. 

July 28, 2015 — Fred Wertheimer, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 1996) and president of Democracy 21, writes in Huffington Post about efforts to reform the role of money in politics, including two bills pending in Congress. Read more…

July 28, 2015 — Celestine Bohlen, columnist at The International New York Times and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014), writes about political clashes over immigration between local and state governments in Italy. Read more in The New York Times.

July 27, 2015 — Trudy Lieberman, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2001), health journalist, and press critic for Columbia Journalism Review, writes about the making of a Politico story that uncovered massive failings in the implementation of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. Read more in Columbia Journalism Review.

July 27, 2015 — Nick Sinai, HKS adjunct lecturer and Walter Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and Matt Lira, IOP fellow, suggest solutions for smart, digital government that can provide better services to citizens. Read more in Politico.

July 27, 2015 — Neal Gabler, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2011), author and film critic, writes about the conflation of entertainment and politics on Reuter’s Great Debate blog. Read more…

July 26, 2015 — Martha Joynt Kumar, professor of political science at Towson University and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 1998), joins Chuck Todd on Meet the Press to discuss the often complicated transition of power from one president to the next, as detailed in her new book, Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack

July 22, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center is pleased to announce that Denise-Marie Ordway has joined the Center as research reporter/editor for Journalist’s Resource. Ordway has been a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer and also wrote news for two radio stations and a newspaper in Central America. She was named as a

July 21, 2015 — The Columbia Journalism Review published an interview with William Buzenberg , Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2015) and former Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, about his new Shorenstein Center paper, which details how the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists investigated “some of the world’s most powerful players—big tobacco, the World Bank, and high-ranking government

July 16, 2015 — Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast special correspondent and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2003), argues in an op-ed that although the Iran nuclear deal is not without it’s risks, “it’s clearly a good thing that Obama is trying to shift the reigning Washington foreign-policy paradigm from war-making to deal-making.” Read more on The Daily

July 14, 2015 — Yavuz Baydar, journalist and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014), has won Italy’s Caravella Meditterraneo/Mare Nostrum award, for his work on press freedom and media independence in Turkey. The Caravella awards are given to important academic and diplomatic figures and to journalists in the Mediterranean region. Read more in Today’s Zaman. 

July 14, 2015 — Hendrik Hertzberg, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (1987-1988) and senior editor and staff writer for The New Yorker, advocates for primary debates that include both Democrats and Republicans,  to encourage a healthier debate of the issues and to draw a larger audience, in an op-ed in The New Yorker. Read more…