July 27, 2015 — Neal Gabler, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2011), author and film critic, writes about the conflation of entertainment and politics on Reuter’s Great Debate blog. Read more…
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July 26, 2015 — Martha Joynt Kumar, professor of political science at Towson University and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 1998), joins Chuck Todd on Meet the Press to discuss the often complicated transition of power from one president to the next, as detailed in her new book, Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack
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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 Welcome Denise-Marie Ordway! We are happy to welcome Denise-Marie Ordway, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and recent Nieman Fellow, to the Shorenstein Center as our new
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July 23, 2015 — In a video from December 2014, Richard Sobel, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 1996) and Associate at Harvard’s Du Bois Institute, discussed voter identification requirements – relevant as a major voting rights case is taken up in North Carolina this week.
July 22, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center is pleased to announce that Denise-Marie Ordway has joined the Center as research reporter/editor for Journalist’s Resource. Ordway has been a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer and also wrote news for two radio stations and a newspaper in Central America. She was named as a
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July 21, 2015 — The Columbia Journalism Review published an interview with William Buzenberg , Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2015) and former Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, about his new Shorenstein Center paper, which details how the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists investigated “some of the world’s most powerful players—big tobacco, the World Bank, and high-ranking government
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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. News from Our Faculty & Fellows The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms: The Twisty Path towards a Net Ecosystem That Makes News More Discoverable, Reusable, and Relevant. A
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July 16, 2015 — Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast special correspondent and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2003), argues in an op-ed that although the Iran nuclear deal is not without it’s risks, “it’s clearly a good thing that Obama is trying to shift the reigning Washington foreign-policy paradigm from war-making to deal-making.” Read more on The Daily
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July 14, 2015 — Yavuz Baydar, journalist and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014), has won Italy’s Caravella Meditterraneo/Mare Nostrum award, for his work on press freedom and media independence in Turkey. The Caravella awards are given to important academic and diplomatic figures and to journalists in the Mediterranean region. Read more in Today’s Zaman.
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July 14, 2015 — Hendrik Hertzberg, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (1987-1988) and senior editor and staff writer for The New Yorker, advocates for primary debates that include both Democrats and Republicans, to encourage a healthier debate of the issues and to draw a larger audience, in an op-ed in The New Yorker. Read more…
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A paper by David Weinberger, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center, explores the successes, challenges and opportunities for news organizations using APIs. An API (application programming interface) enables websites and applications to talk to each other and efficiently share data and functionality across sites and platforms. In 2008 The
July 9, 2015 — Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour anchor and visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center in 2005, interviewed former President Jimmy Carter on the PBS Newshour about the Democratic candidates for the upcoming presidential race, race relations in America, and his new memoir. Watch the interview.
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