October 22, 2013 – The Shorenstein Center welcomed Betsy Fischer Martin, managing editor of NBC News Political Programming and former senior executive producer of “Meet the Press,” to share her thoughts on the changing media landscape. During her 20-year tenure at “Meet the Press,” Fischer Martin said, technology changed the show considerably. Her job when she started as […]
October 17, 2013 – To shed some light on the secret world of special operations forces, the Shorenstein Center invited Linda Robinson, senior international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Robinson, author of One Hundred Victories: Special Operations Forces and the Future of American Warfare, has been granted unique and special access to the covert operators, and she shared
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October 15, 2013 – As one of only three people with direct contact to Edward Snowden, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bart Gellman shared with the Shorenstein Center how the Snowden leaks about the NSA have affected the U.S. government, marketplace and democracy. Snowden’s greatest fear, Gellman said, was that either “he would be preempted” in his attempt to
Snowden is a ‘polarizing force,’ says Post’s Barton Gellman Read More »
October 11, 2013 – Conversation with Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent. Co-sponsored with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Who Stole the American Dream? Read More »
October 10, 2013 – The sixth annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press was delivered by Floyd Abrams, a member of the Executive Committee and Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP’s litigation practice group. Described by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as “the most significant First Amendment lawyer of our age,” Mr. Abrams has been named
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October 8, 2013 – Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor, writer and blogger for The Atlantic, shared with the Shorenstein Center his thoughts on the dual society in America – its historical beginning, its impact on policy, and what implications it might have on the country’s future. Coates, who is also the Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar at MIT,
October 2, 2013 – A new book by Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard Kennedy School, is a frank look at the failings of today’s journalism and what needs to be done to fix the problem.
Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism Read More »
October 1, 2013 – Financial reporting is crucial to a fair and functioning democracy, said Laurie Hays, Senior Executive Editor for Beat Reporting at Bloomberg News. The challenge that financial reporters face, she said, is presenting complex economic issues in a way that large audiences can understand. Yet it is important because “the bottom line is…the bottom
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September 30, 2013 – “Negotiating Women’s Roles in Complex International Environments.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Fouzia Saeed, Human rights activist and educator in Pakistan and Beena Sarwar, Pakistani journalist and filmmaker. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public
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September 24, 2013 – A few hours after President Obama’s speech to the UN General Assembly, the Shorenstein Center welcomed David Rohde, investigative journalist for Thomson Reuters, to speak about his observations in traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry and how U.S. policy is changing in the Middle East.
David Rohde of Reuters describes Sec. Kerry as ‘activist’ who takes risks Read More »
September 17, 2013 – Joan Walsh, editor-at-large of Salon.com and a political analyst for MSNBC, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about racial change and political polarization. “When politics gets almost completely racialized…and race gets thoroughly politicized,” she said, “it’s trouble for a country that was founded on E pluribus unum, and that has believed the core of American exceptionalism, in my mind, is the ability to bring people together.”
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September 10, 2013 – Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and Political Director, discussed the political system in the U.S. and the dysfunction of the two parties, and how Obama’s role has shifted. Listen to the audio on SoundCloud or iTunesU. If the story below doesn’t load properly, click here to view in Storify. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/chuck-todd-media-and-politics-in-washington-d-c
Media and Politics in Washington, D.C. Read More »
A new paper from Spring 2013 Fellow Michael Slaby, former Chief Integration and Innovation Officer on the 2012 Obama for America campaign and CTO in 2008.
Mapping the New World: Lessons from the Obama Campaigns Read More »
September 9, 2013 – A panel discussion with Tim Armstrong, AOL; Caroline Little, Newspaper Association of America; Arthur Sulzberger Jr., The New York Times. Moderated by former Shorenstein Center Fellows John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz and Paul Sagan. Watch the video: About the Project: The Riptide project was conceived and executed at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy by three Shorenstein Center Fellows during the Spring 2013
Riptide: Digital Disruption of the News Business Read More »
Riptide, an important new website and paper by Shorenstein Center Fellows John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz and Paul Sagan, chronicles the digital disruption of the news business from 1980 to the present.
RIPTIDE: What Really Happened to the News Business Read More »
In a new paper released by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, Spring 2013 Fellow Peter Hamby, who covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential races for CNN, examines the challenges of reporting on a modern political race in today’s volatile online media ecosystem.
Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?
Searching for a better way to cover a campaign Read More »
August 28, 2013 – The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce its 2013 Fall Fellows and Visiting Faculty. “Our Fellows and Visiting Faculty for the fall semester range from one of the nation’s most respected political analysts to a crusading FCC commissioner,
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A paper by Spring 2013 Fellow Melinda Henneberger examines the importance of a candidate’s authenticity in presidential elections.
Mom’s Best Advice: How Candidates Who Didn’t Run as Themselves Lost the Message War Read More »
June 6-7, 2013 – Harvard Kennedy School Adjunct Lecturer Nicco Mele spoke at the 10th annual Personal Democracy Forum in New York City about “The Unwritten Future of Personal Democracy.” HKS alums Kate Krontiris and Kathryn Peters spoke about “Reimagining the Future of American Elections,” and Steve Grove spoke on “How Hangouts Are Improving Public Conversations.” Click here to watch the videos.
HKS alum and faculty speak at the 2013 Personal Democracy Forum Read More »
In her Shorenstein Center paper, Fall 2012 Fellow Tara McKelvey examines the media coverage of the U.S. drone program in five major news outlets.
Media Coverage of the Drone Program Read More »
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