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Leaders from Journalism, Tech, Theater, Gaming and More Join Shorenstein Center Advisory Board
Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. In the past, he has authored three books, Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism; How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy, and Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself?. An earlier book, The Vanishing Voter, examined electoral participation, and his book on the media’s political role, Out of Order, received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. His first book, The Unseeing Eye, was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the 50 most influential books on public opinion in the past half century. He is also the author of Mass Media Election: How Americans Choose Their President (1980), and an introductory American government text We the People, which is now in its 14th edition.. His articles have appeared in Political Communication, Journal of Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, and other academic journals, as well as in the popular press. His research has been funded by the Ford, Markle, Smith-Richardson, Pew, Knight, Carnegie, and National Science foundations. Patterson received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1971.
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Join The Journalist’s Resource and the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a webinar exploring what research reveals about AI’s impact on education, emerging challenges and research gaps, and practical strategies for journalists covering AI in schools and universities.
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Zoom webinar
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Join The Journalist’s Resource and the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for a discussion on how AI is changing the information landscape and practical strategies for community-focused newsrooms navigating these shifts with limited resources.
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Zoom webinar
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Toby Prike will cover two studies examining the impacts of perceived misinformation exposure on trust, democratic attitudes, and polarization, and present findings from an experiment examining the peer-to-peer transmission of misinformation.
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Zoom webinar
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Want to do something big in the world? Hard to do that if no one knows who you are. Or worse, if what they know is wrong! This workshop will teach you how to effectively tell your story publicly. Taught by Julia Allison, fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy. This workshop is for Harvard ID holders only.
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HKS Campus (Room announced to accepted participants)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET
U.S. migration is projected to plummet by 2.4 million people between 2024 and 2026. Join The Journalist’s Resource, Econofact, and It Turns Out for a live expert panel exploring the consequences for the economy, industries, and families.
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Zoom webinar
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Join Shorenstein Center Fellow and USC Annenberg Professor David Craig for a discussion of his forthcoming book, Creator Nationalism: Platforms, Politics, and Influence, exploring how social media creators and influencers figure prominently in the construction, imagination, commercialization, and contestation of nationalism around the world.
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HKS Campus, 15 Eliot St., Taubman Building, Room T-520 NYE & Zoom
2:30 PM ET
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with influencers as varied as vegan YouTubers, dads of Instagram, and drama commentators, Angèle Christin will demystify the content creator economy, explaining its history and the pitfalls of its professionalization.
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HKS campus, Wexner Building, Room W-434 A.B. & Zoom
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Ali Vitali, broadcaster and journalist, author of “Electable,” and Azza Cohen, videographer to Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett, break down gender biases in political image-making, interrogate media narratives and advocate for equitable representation.
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HKS Campus, 15 Eliot St., Taubman Building, Room T-520 NYE
5:30 PM ET
Explore how “The Diplomat” brings the work of diplomacy to life, the people and experiences that shape the series, and what the show can reveal about the practice of diplomacy in a period of profound geopolitical change.
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JFK Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
October 26 - 6:00 PM ET
Join BISG for an interactive book talk with Stanford Professor Nir Halevy to learn practical ways to navigate workplace hierarchies and build healthier organizations.
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Harvard Campus, Wexner Building, Room W-G02
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET