April 8, 2016 — James Carroll, author and spring 1997 fellow, writes that “for years, priests have been quietly defying the Vatican on family issues. Now Pope Francis has brought them out of the shadows.” Read more in The New Yorker.
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April 8, 2016 — Diane McWhorter, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center in 2014 and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, explores the questions raised by Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman. “Now more than five decades after Harper Lee first awakened so many (white) people to their moral potential, we still need to be told that black
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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 Jo Becker: Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy and the Question of U.S. Military Intervention. Jo Becker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times,
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April 6, 2016 — BBC reporter and current Joan Shorenstein Fellow Joanna Jolly discusses her research into the aftermath of the infamous Delhi gang rape in 2012. She describes the various ways in which news outlets covered the story and how they influenced Indian society’s response. Listen on Harvard Kennedy School’s PolicyCast.
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April 5, 2016 — Jo Becker, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, discussed Hillary Clinton’s role in the U.S. intervention in Libya, which she argues, ultimately contributed to destabilization in the region. Evaluating Clinton’s role as secretary of state is important since “it can tell you a little bit about how
Join us for a conversation with Marty Baron, editor of The Washington Post and former editor of The Boston Globe (2001-2012), moderated by Tom Ashbrook, journalist and host of the nationally-syndicated “On Point” on Boston’s WBUR. Baron, profiled in the movie “Spotlight” for his work to quickly mobilize Globe reporters investigating systemic child sex abuse charges in the Catholic Church, will speak to
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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 Sarah Kliff: Health Care Policy in the Media. Sarah Kliff, deputy managing editor for visuals at Vox, discussed media coverage of the Affordable Care Act,
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A seminar with Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami on themes raised in their new book Burning Country, about the complicated reality of life in present day Syria. Presented by the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Nieman Foundation for
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March 31, 2016 — Diane Francis, editor at large for the National Post in Canada and fall 2005 fellow, chronicles the reasons for Trump’s “abysmal polling results among women.” Read more in The Guardian.
Diane Francis: Donald Trump’s Misogyny is Laying Waste to His Party Read More »
A panel discussion with: Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Politics and the Press, Shorenstein Center Peter Maurer, President, International Committee of the Red Cross Moderated by Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Watch the video. Presented by the Belfer Center Middle East Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center, Harvard
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March 29, 2016 — Sarah Kliff, deputy managing editor for visuals at Vox, discussed media coverage of the Affordable Care Act, what’s next for health care policy, and Vox’s approach to covering policy. Kliff, whose work has included coverage for Vox, The Washington Post, Politico, and Newsweek, began reporting on health care policy in April
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March 29, 2016 — Walter Shapiro, Roll Call columnist and spring 2005 fellow, argues that Ted Cruz and John Kasich “do not have to forge a binding agreement. They merely should pursue their own self-interest in a way that does not jeopardize their mutual need to stop Trump from reaching a 1,237-delegate majority.” Read more on
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