December 18, 2014 — Jill Dougherty, former Shorenstein Fellow and foreign affairs correspondent for CNN, covers Vladimir Putin’s most recent news conference. Read more…
Jill Dougherty: Crisis, what crisis? Putin’s marathon news conference Read More »
December 16, 2014 — Julia Baird, journalist and former Shorenstein Fellow, writes about the Sydney hostage siege in The New York Times. Read more…
Julia Baird: Isolated No More: The Sydney Hostage Siege and a Nation’s Identity Read More »
A new paper by Robert Lenzner, Spring 2014 Fellow and contributor to Forbes Media, examines why the media failed to detect the warning signs of the 2008 financial crisis – and how it can avoid missing them the next time around. Based on decades of experience as a financial reporter, and interviews with key figures including
Reporting on the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Next One Read More »
December 12, 2014 — Nick Sinai, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, discusses the case for treating data as infrastructure, and how data is poised to significantly alter government, journalism, and the private sector. Read more…
Nick Sinai: Data as Infrastructure Read More »
The Shorenstein Center hosts a weekly speaker series throughout the academic year, as well as other special events. With the Fall 2014 semester coming to a close, we look back at the perspectives shared by our visiting speakers, who discussed some of the important issues of 2014. A full list of past Shorenstein Center events
2014 Event Highlights Read More »
Funding will help improve research and education tool, Journalist’s Resource, and support collaboration between journalism school deans Cambridge, Mass.—Dec. 11, 2014—Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy will update and improve Journalist’s Resource, a tool that connects journalists, educators and students with reliable research from around the world, and bring together leading journalism
Knight Foundation and the Carnegie Corp. of New York recently announced continued funding for an ongoing effort to reform journalism education. Below, John Wihbey, the managing editor of Journalist’s Resource at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, reflects on the progress of the initiative in the context of wider media
Coalition of J-schools renews focus on strengthening journalism education Read More »
The annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting honors investigative reporting that best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics. The winner receives $25,000, and five finalists receive $10,000. Apply by December 31, 2014. View the rules, guidelines, and apply.
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting nominations due December 31, 2014 Read More »
Media, Campaigns, and 2016 with Jill Abramson, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, David Rogers, and Alex S. Jones. December 2, 2014, 9:00am.
Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics Read More »
November 22, 2014 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at Harvard Kennedy School, writes about the importance of authenticity in politics in the New Republic. Read more…
Michael Ignatieff: I Wish Someone Had Told Me This Before I Became a Politician Read More »
Optimism for a Change: Media, Campaigns, and 2016 with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
Theodore H. White Lecture with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann Read More »
November 18, 2014 — Susan Crawford, former Shorenstein Center visiting professor and current Harvard Law School professor, and Stephen Goldsmith, professor at Harvard Kennedy School, write about the possibilities of using big data to improve public services in the Boston Globe. Read more…
Susan Crawford: Good data make better cities Read More »
November 20, 2014 — Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge magazine, contributing editor at Harper’ s, and former Shorenstein fellow, discussed the widely-adopted yet, in his view, faulty ideas that have dominated U.S. economic policy in recent decades. Drawing on his recent book, Seven Bad Economic Ideas and How They’ve Hurt Us All, Madrick argued that
Jeff Madrick: “Seven Bad Economic Ideas and How They’ve Hurt Us All” Read More »
November 19, 2014 — Frederick W. Mayer, professor of public policy, political science and environment at Duke University, discussed how storytelling plays a vital role in political and civic engagement.
Frederick W. Mayer: Narrative Politics: The Medium is the Story Read More »
November 18, 2014 — Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for the Atlantic, discussed the increasing dangers of reporting on the Middle East and provided candid guidance for those who aspire to cover the region.
Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic: The Challenges of Reporting on the Middle East Read More »
November 18, 2014 — Nicco Mele came to the Shorenstein Center as a visiting Murrow Lecturer in the spring of 2009. He continued teaching at HKS/Shorenstein Center as an adjunct lecturer and has been a vital part of the Center, teaching and advising on digital media strategy and politics. Today, he was named the new
Nicco Mele named deputy publisher of L.A. Times Read More »
Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press with Margaret H. Marshall November 13, 2014 – Margaret Marshall, former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, delivered the annual Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press, where she expressed her concerns about the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the First Amendment, and its
Margaret H. Marshall: “Democracy v. the First Amendment? New Tensions in a New Age” Read More »
November 10, 2014 — Current Fellow Yavuz Baydar examines threats to freedom of the press in Turkey on Huffington Post. Read more…
November 7, 2014 — Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the role of Germany, the United States, Russia and other leading nations 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall as part of a panel on BBC Newsnight.
Michael Ignatieff: Geopolitics since the fall of the Berlin Wall Read More »
November 5, 2014 — Former Fellow Nazila Fathi writes in Vogue magazine about her coverage of Iran’s Green Movement protests for the New York Times — and about her subsequent relocation to Canada after being threatened by the Iranian government. Read more…
Nazila Fathi: A New York Times Correspondent’s Story of Fleeing Iran with Her Family Read More »
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