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 Joan Shorenstein Fellows Discuss Paris Terrorist Attacks, ISIS, and Soft Power. The Shorenstein Center closed its fall semester event series with a conversation with the […]
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Voices in Leadership Event Series at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Live webcast. Those with Harvard ID are invited to attend in person — RSVP here to enter the random lottery for a seat. To watch the live webcast online, no registration is needed; visit the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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November 17, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center closed its fall semester event series with a conversation with the fall 2015 Joan Shorenstein Fellows: David Ensor, former director of Voice of America, Marie Sanz, Lima, Peru bureau chief, AFP, and Paul Wood, foreign correspondent, BBC. The panel discussion focused on the November 13 terrorist attacks in
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“Our criminal justice system isn’t as smart as it should be.” — President Obama, July 15, 2015 This summer, President Obama addressed the 106th NAACP convention to lay out the reasons we need to reform the criminal justice system. The numbers speak for themselves. The U.S. has 2.2 million prisoners, up 400% since 1977. The U.S. has
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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 “The Press and the Polls,” with Jill Lepore. Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and staff writer for The New Yorker, delivered the 26th
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As a bestselling author, 2015 MacArthur fellow, and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as one of the foremost thinkers about race and racial issues in America. His book, Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award, has brought a personal and powerful voice to bear on the centuries-old legacy of violence inflicted
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November 11, 2015 — Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, discussed his career, election 2016, Sunday morning talks shows and more in an interview with HKS’s “Policycast.” Read more and listen to the audio.
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November 10, 2015 — Former fellow and TV news producer Richard N. Kaplan returned to the Shorenstein Center to discuss the 2016 election, including the debates and the role of the media, and the need for serious journalism. Kaplan has worked for CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC, and served as executive producer for Walter Cronkite,
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November 10, 2015 — Trudy Lieberman, spring 2001 fellow, health journalist, and press critic for Columbia Journalism Review, writes about the challenges of covering the USDA, FDA, and other federal agencies. Read more in Columbia Journalism Review.
November 9, 2015 — Melinda Henneberger, spring 2013 fellow and editor in chief of Roll Call, discussed women’s political engagement, the increase of women in political media, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Read more in Elle magazine.
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November 6, 2015 — A panel of experts discussed the benefits and drawbacks of polling at the Shorenstein Center, continuing the conversation sparked by the previous night’s Theodore H. White Lecture on “The Press and the Polls,” delivered by Jill Lepore. Panelists included: Candy Crowley, former anchor and political correspondent, CNN and Fall Fellow, Harvard
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November 5, 2015 – Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and staff writer for The New Yorker, delivered the 26th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, titled “The Press and the Polls.” The David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism was awarded to Gary Younge, columnist for The Guardian, the same evening. Co-sponsored by the Institute
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