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Sexism, Science and Science Writing: Promoting Women Leaders in the Lab and Newsroom
Panel Discussion

Audio & Video, Environment, Health & Science, Past Events, Policy & Issues, Race & Gender / By Allie Henske

Panel Discussion featuring: Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism Meg Urry, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Yale University Jennifer Bogo, Executive Editor, Popular Science Despite considerable progress, problems of gender bias, pay inequity, and sexual harassment persist in journalism, science, and science writing. Prominent female leaders shared their experiences and posed potential solutions for […]

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Thomas Patterson: Why Americans Seem To Be Paying Less Attention To The News

News / By Nilagia McCoy

April 1, 2015 — Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, discussed trends in news consumption and what they mean for an informed public on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR. Listen to the episode.

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Freedom of Information Act Seminar

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

This session is part of the 10-week seminar series, Data, Technology and Innovation in Government, led by Nick Sinai. Seminars are for students only (graduate and undergraduate) and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Guest: Cori Zarek, White House Senior Advisor for Open Government Description: FOIA reform narrowly missed becoming law in the last Congress, but

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Juliette Kayyem: Homeland Security – Government Communications and Media Coverage

Audio & Video, Past Events, Policy & Issues, War, Defense & Security / By Allie Henske

March 31, 2015 — Juliette Kayyem, who has worked in homeland security at the state and federal level, provided advice on communicating about national security and public safety issues. Kayyem was the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the first Undersecretary for Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of

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Media and Politics Must Reads, March 27, 2015

Newsletters / By Nilagia McCoy

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 Farnaz Fassihi, senior Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and current Nieman Fellow, discussed how the nature of reporting on the Middle East

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How Data is Helping Us Understand Voting Rights After Shelby County

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

Maya Sen (Moderator), Ash Center Faculty Affiliate and HKS Assistant Professor of Public Policy Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Government, Harvard University Nate Cohn, politics and policy writer, The New York Times Thursday, March 26, 2015, 4:10 p.m. Ash Center Foyer 124 Mount Auburn St, Suite 200-North, Cambridge Hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance

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Farnaz Fassihi: Reporting from the Middle East

Audio & Video, International Affairs, Past Events, Policy & Issues / By Allie Henske

March 25, 2015 — Farnaz Fassihi, senior Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and current Nieman Fellow, discussed how the nature of reporting on the Middle East has changed in recent years, and provided context and insight on current Middle East conflicts. Fassihi began reporting on conflicts in the Middle East after 9/11,

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The Press and Edward Kennedy: A Case Study of Journalistic Behavior

Government Institutions, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Neal Gabler, former Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2011), author and film critic, examines the quantity and nature of media coverage of Edward Kennedy over the course of his political career. Gabler analyzed press coverage of Edward M. Kennedy in newspapers, newsmagazines, broadcast news programs and tabloids. He compared the coverage Kennedy received

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Michele Norris: Family Secret And Cultural Identity Revealed In “Little White Lie”

News / By Nilagia McCoy

March 23, 2015 — Michele Norris, Joan Shorenstein Fellow Spring 2015, interviews the filmmaker and subject of the documentary, “Little White Lie,” in which a woman learns about her unknown African-American ancestry. Read more on NPR’s Code Switch.

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Data Journalism Seminar

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

This session is part of the 10-week seminar series, Data, Technology and Innovation in Government, led by Nick Sinai. Seminars are for students only (graduate and undergraduate) and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Guest: Alex Howard, editor at E Pluribus Unum, columnist for TechRepublic. Description: Data journalism is a hot topic—with a number of

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Yavuz Baydar: Erdogan has all but destroyed Turkish journalism

News / By Nilagia McCoy

March 20, 2015 — Yavuz Baydar, Joan Shorenstein Fellow Fall 2014, writes about escalating threats to freedom of the press in Turkey in The Guardian. Read more.

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Media and Politics Must Reads, March 20, 2015

Newsletters / By Nilagia McCoy

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 This week was Sunshine Week, an annual nation-wide celebration of access to public information. To get started on your own government data excavation, visit Journalist’s

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Michael Ignatieff: Is Liberty Divisible? The Challenge of Illiberal Democracy and Capitalist Authoritarianism

News / By Nilagia McCoy

March 18, 2015 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy, discussed how the hopes for democracy, open society, and globalization have turned out in a lecture at Central European University. Read a summary of the talk.

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David Weinberger: So Sayeth Google

News / By Nilagia McCoy

March 13, 2015 — David Weinberger, Joan Shorenstein Fellow Spring 2015, writes about the complexities of ranking search results in Slate. Whether results are ranked by popularity or by accuracy, there are very real implications for topics such as science and journalism. Read more.

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Smart Cities/Internet of Things Seminar

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

This session is part of the 10-week seminar series, Data, Technology and Innovation in Government, led by Nick Sinai. Seminars are for students only (graduate and undergraduate) and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Guest: Sokwoo Rhee, Associate Director of Cyber-Physical Systems, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Description: Increasingly, cities are networking vehicles, street lights, electric

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The Newsroom as an Open Air Prison: Corruption and Self-Censorship in Turkish Journalism

News Business & Practice, Papers, Press Freedom, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Yavuz Baydar, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014), and columnist, blogger, and co-founder of the Platform for Independent Journalism (P24), examines current threats to freedom of the press in Turkey. Although imprisonment of journalists has declined in Turkey, 2014 saw a dramatic rise in firings and self-imposed censorship in newsrooms under the Justice and

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Will Geeks Save The World?

News / By Nilagia McCoy

March 5, 2015 — A famous TIME magazine article in the 1990’s featured a cover with Bob Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Larry Summers as “the committee to save the world” and inspired the next generation of economists to pursue public service as a means to solve big problems. More recently, a TIME article in 2014 has

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Study Group: “Racism is a flesh colored bandaid” – Examining the color of commerce

Past Events / By Nilagia McCoy

This session is part of the five-week study group series, How Shifts in Race and Cultural Identity Influence Politics, Policy and Pop Culture, led by Michele Norris. Seminars are for Harvard students only (graduate and undergraduate), and are not-for-credit. Please register below to reserve your space. Description: What this six-word essay from The Race Card Project hints at

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Anna Holmes: Emerging Voices in Digital Journalism

Audio & Video, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Past Events, Policy & Issues, Race & Gender / By Allie Henske

March 10, 2015 — Anna Holmes, editor at Fusion, columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, and founder of Jezebel, discussed her career, diversity in the media business, and the trends she sees in online journalism. Holmes began her career in print entertainment and women’s magazines, which left her unsatisfied. She felt that

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Unlocking Labor and Skills Data for America: A Roundtable Discussion with Business and Policy Leaders

News / By Nilagia McCoy

March 5, 2015 — Job creation has been a priority of the Obama administration — the U.S. has seen over 10 million jobs created since President Obama took office. To aid these largely private sector efforts, the administration has worked to make federal job training programs that serve over 21 million Americans every year better able to

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