Boston Globe wins 2003 Goldsmith investigative reporting prize

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March 11, 2003 —The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to the Boston Globe by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for its award-winning investigative report “Crisis in the Catholic Church.” Launched in 1991, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting honors journalism which promotes more effective and […]

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Whispers and Screams: The Partisan Nature of Editorial Pages

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A paper by Michael Tomasky, spring 2003 fellow, examines the partisan intensity of the nation’s agenda-setting liberal and conservative editorial pages. This paper finds that while the pages are more or less equally partisan when it comes to supporting or opposing a given presidential administration’s policy pronouncements, the conservative pages are often far more partisan

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U.S. Government Secrecy and the Current Crackdown on Leaks

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A paper by Jack Nelson, fall 2002 fellow (deceased), explores the relationship between the government and the press regarding the contentious issue of leaks. This paper looks at the long and continuing struggle over the scope of laws to punish leakers and discusses the growth of secrets over the years. It also examines efforts to

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Media Coverage of Corporate Social Responsibility

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A paper by James T. Hamilton, fall 2002 Kalb Chair on Global Communications, explores the factors shaping media coverage of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This paper first reviews the many theories and definitions of CSR. Debates about CSR in academia, policy circles, and business arenas center on the set of policy issues involved, stakeholders affected,

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Redefining Foreign Correspondence

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A paper by John Maxwell Hamilton, fall 2002 fellow, and Eric Jenner, examines the changing nature of foreign correspondence. Significant declines in the number of foreign correspondents and in the amount of space and time allotted to foreign news by print and broadcast media have raised criticism that the news media are “progressively less good

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Dialectical Spaces in the Global Public Sphere: Media Memories across Generations.

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Ingrid Volkmer, spring 2002 fellow, argues that the spread of international news channels has created “imagined communities,” which affect political alliances, conventional journalism and – increasingly – national public spheres. This paper discusses new issues of globalization and focuses on the impact of media-related globalization processes on “life-worlds” in various countries. Download the paper (PDF).

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David McCullough delivers 2002 Theodore H. White lecture

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October 29, 2002 — The idea that history has something valuable and useful to teach us has been seriously questioned by academic historians in recent years, and a new and often bewildering set of theories justifying the historical enterprise has been proposed in its stead. David McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for history, whose

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Christiane Amanpour of CNN wins Goldsmith career award

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March 12, 2002 — Christiane Amanpour, this year’s winner of the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism, gave the keynote address at the awards ceremony. Amanpour, chief international correspondent at CNN, spoke about the trials, tribulations — and rewards — of being a war correspondent in these difficult days. The Forum talk was a

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While America Slept: Coverage of Terrorism from 1993 to September 11, 2001

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A paper by Matthew V. Storin, spring 2002 fellow, considers whether American news outlets utterly failed to prepare the public for the trauma of 9/11, or raised at least some flags of caution. The research spans an eight-and-a-half-year period from the bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, through the coverage of

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Covering September 11 and Its Consequences: A Comparative Study of the Press in America, India and Pakistan

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A paper by Ramindar Singh, fall 2001 fellow, analyzes how the press in the U.S. responded to the need to understand and report on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and how the press in India and Pakistan handled similar challenges in their region. 9/11 affected Americans in a most fundamental way; it forced

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A Hierarchy of Innocence: The Media’s Use of Children in the Telling of International News

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A paper by Susan D. Moeller, spring 2000 fellow, examines the media’s use of imagery of children in news stories about conflict. Moeller argues that the shift in warfare and in geopolitics since the Cold War has made it difficult for Americans to identify the “good guys” and the “bad guys” in international affairs. Without

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The Race Issue in Australia’s 2001 Election: A Creation of Politicians or the Press?

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A paper by Paul Kelly, spring 2002 fellow, tells the story of the Tampa, of Australia’s new and punitive refugee policy in 2001, of the reaction and role of the country’s leading newspapers to this event, and their complex connections. This transformation in Australian policy was the most dramatic by a democracy to combat the

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The War on Terrorism Goes Online: Media and Government Response to First Post-Internet Crisis

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A paper by Andrew J. Glass, fall 2001 fellow, investigates the multifaceted role that the Internet played in the initial phases of the campaign against global terrorist networks. While the parameters of today’s online communications’ systems were in place during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, that relatively brief struggle occurred shortly before the advent of

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The Global News Networks and U.S. Policymaking in Defense and Foreign Affairs

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A paper by Eytan Gilboa, spring 2002 fellow, investigates the effects of global television news on the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. While it found no evidence to support the “CNN effect,” a theory that claims global television now determines policy, it does present evidence and analysis of other significant effects on various phases

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The Form of Reports on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites

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A paper by Kevin G. Barnhurst, fall 2001 fellow, argues that U.S. newspapers that publish electronic editions on the Internet do not appear to reinvent themselves online. Instead the Web versions reproduce the substance of their print editions in a way that relates similarly to readers. Reaching stories on line can be a process involving

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The Content of Reports on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites

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A paper by Kevin G. Barnhurst, fall 2001 fellow, argues that moving newspaper content onto the Internet has not, in itself, changed what journalists write. In many ways, the who, what, when, where, why, and how of news stories continue to evolve in ways that enhance the professional authority of journalists. Stories are longer and

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Judy Woodruff delivers 2001 Theodore H. White lecture

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November 1, 2001 — Ever since those horrifying moments when two passenger jetliners smashed into the World Trade Center towers seven weeks ago, Americans have been glued to their television sets with a seemingly insatiable appetite for information. And the TV networks have responded with a steady stream of around-the-clock coverage that has usurped the

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The American Media and Race Relations in an Interdependent World: A Report on the Shorenstein Center Conference on Race and the Press

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On June 28, 2001, the Shorenstein Center sponsored a conference in Washington, DC on race and the press. The objective of the conference was to examine the complicated entwining of race and media from both local and national perspectives. Former President Bill Clinton chose this occasion to make his first public address in Washington since

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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.

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