March 6, 2012 — On Super Tuesday, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Melinda Henneberger, political reporter and blogger for The Washington Post, to discuss the presidential primary race. “The GOP primary couldn’t have gone better for the Democrats,” Henneberger began. The surprising thing about the race, she said, is that what began as a campaign focused […]
GOP primary has gone well for Democrats, says Post reporter Read More »
February 28, 2012 — After nearly 12 years of obstacles, Raymond Bonner‘s book, Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong, was published by Knopf. Bonner spoke to the Shorenstein Center about his journalistic process in writing the book and getting it published in spite of difficulties. Bonner, a former investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for
Ex-NYT reporter sees his book on death penalty in print after decade of obstacles Read More »
February 27, 2012 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Pir Zubair Shah, Reporter for the New York Times and Nieman Fellow; and David Greenway, Shorenstein Fellow and contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune and GlobalPost.
Pakistan and the U.S.: Ships Passing in the Night Read More »
February 24, 2012 – Wadah Khanfar, president of the Sharq Forum, an international think tank focused on political and economic development in the Arab world, and former director general of the Al Jazeera network. Learn more
One Year after Mubarak: The Past and Future of the ‘Arab Spring’ Read More »
The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty Thomas E. Patterson, Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, September, 2002 During the 2000 presidential campaign with the support of a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy conducted the most exhaustive study
The Vanishing Voter by Thomas E. Patterson Read More »
The Vanishing Voter Project was based at the Shorenstein Center during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. Through research, the project tried to understand the factors that affect public involvement and to use this information to propose constructive changes in the election process. In 2000, the Vanishing Voter Project centered on weekly national surveys designed to
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February 15, 2012 — Information consumption should be treated like a public health issue, said Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, at a Shorenstein Center event moderated by Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. “We are wired for what was good for us, rather than what is good
‘Information Diet’ author calls for ‘conscious consumption’ Read More »
February 14, 2012 — The Tea Party movement shares “striking similarities” to the online progressive movement of 2004–2005, said Matt Bai, chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. Bai spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how these two movements illustrate a decentralization in American politics. Technology has played a substantial role in both
‘Flash’ politics value outsiders over experts, says Matt Bai Read More »
A digital power play stopped the SOPA and PIPA legislation. What are the implications?
A discussion with Susan Crawford, Micah Sifry, Nicco Mele, Elaine Kamarck and Alexis Ohanian .
Power Politics in the Age of Google Read More »
February 7, 2012 — The revolutions during the Arab Spring have yielded disappointing results for women, said NPR foreign correspondent Lourdes Garcia‑Navarro at a Shorenstein Center event. While the events of Tahrir Square and across the Middle East provided women with unprecedented opportunities, she said, when the smoke cleared, women once again found themselves underrepresented in
Arab Spring not a revolution for women, says NPR journalist Read More »
February 2, 2012 – A panel conversation with Mona Eltahawy, Columnist, Toronto Star, The Jerusalem Report and Politiken; Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS; and Charles Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and Co-founder, GlobalPost. Moderator: Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Cosponsored by HKS Middle East Initiative; The Open Hands Initiative; The Shorenstein Center on the
Egypt: From Tahrir Square to Today Read More »
Neil Lewis Shorenstein Center Fellow, Spring 2011 Formerly, The New York Times Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A survey of nearly 3,000 articles in The Times about Israel over the decades from the 1960’s to recent years provides a long-range view that shows that it is a narrative with, in the broadest sense, two
Frederick W. Mayer Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2011 Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A decade that began with optimism for those advocating action to combat climate change ended in 2010 with dashed hopes. Momentum slowly grew in the first half of the decade. By 2007 there was
January 31, 2012 — Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent for RealClearPolitics, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about President Obama and his administration. Simendinger outlined four areas that the president himself has identified as needing improvement: communicating effectively, focusing on what people care about, portraying a centrist image and using executive power. What he was so
White House reporter looks at Obama’s term in office Read More »
January 26, 2012 — The power of the Internet to influence public policy and economic growth was the topic discussed by a panel of Google policy experts at a special event for Harvard Kennedy School students hosted by the Shorenstein Center, HKS Communications Program, HKS Office of Career Advancement and the HKS student group Tech{For}Change.
Google execs say Internet is powerful tool for data-driven policy Read More »
Vivek Kundra Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2011 Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets, Salesforce.com; Former U.S. Chief Information Officer Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A Shift in Power In the information economy, data is power and we face a choice between democratizing it and holding on to it for an asymmetrical advantage. For example,
Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect Read More »
Mark McKinnon Shorenstein Center Reidy Fellow, Fall 2011 Political Communications Strategist; Vice Chairman Hill+Knowlton Strategies Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: How would the course of history been altered had P.T. Barnum moderated the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858? Today’s ultimate showman and on-again, off-again presidential candidate Donald Trump invited the Republican presidential primary contenders
Gone Rogue: Time to Reform the Presidential Primary Debates Read More »
December 5, 2011 – Kelman Seminar with Roger Cohen, columnist, International Herald Tribune; Fisher Family Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; and Carlotta Gall, reporter covering Pakistan and Afghanistan for The New York Times; Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Joan
The Dark Side: Reporting on the War on Terror Read More »
November 29, 2011 — The dynamics and landscape for campaigns in the 2012 presidential primary have shifted significantly since the last presidential election cycle in 2007–08, forcing candidates to rethink traditional strategies and uses of their resources, according to Russell J. Schriefer, senior adviser and media consultant to the Mitt Romney for President campaign. A longtime Republican
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