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Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking

Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking

This report was published by the Council of Europe, with support from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and First Draft. Reproduced with permission of the Council of Europe. The opinions expressed in this work are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of […]

Information disorder
News Crisis: Can Local Public Radio Help Fill the News Gap Created by the Decline of Local Newspapers?

News Crisis: Can Local Public Radio Help Fill the News Gap Created by the Decline of Local Newspapers?

The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or of Harvard University. Discussion Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback and to encourage debate on important issues and challenges in […]

Ethical Scaling for Content Moderation: Extreme Speech and the (In)Significance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethical Scaling for Content Moderation: Extreme Speech and the (In)Significance of Artificial Intelligence

The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or of Harvard University. Discussion Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback and to encourage debate on important issues and challenges in […]

Can They Do Good and Still Do Well? Local TV Stations and Communities’ Information Needs

Can They Do Good and Still Do Well? Local TV Stations and Communities’ Information Needs

The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or of Harvard University. Discussion Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback and to encourage debate on important issues and challenges […]

Machines of Truth and Distortion – A Citizen’s Call to Action: Preparing America for the AI Flood

Machines of Truth and Distortion – A Citizen’s Call to Action: Preparing America for the AI Flood

The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University or the organizations and institutions with whom the authors are affiliated. Discussion Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback […]

The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S.: A Landscape Analysis

The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S.: A Landscape Analysis

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The views expressed in the Shorenstein Center Fellows Research Paper Series are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or of Harvard University. Fellows Research Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this […]

Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet

Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet

The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or of Harvard University. Discussion Papers have not undergone formal review and approval. Such papers are included in this series to elicit feedback and to encourage debate on important issues and challenges in […]

Doom and Gloom: The Role of the Media in Public Disengagement on Climate Change

Doom and Gloom: The Role of the Media in Public Disengagement on Climate Change

Photo credits: Diane Haeker and Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) Introduction In July of 2008, as a national broadcast correspondent, I reported on environmental conditions in Newtok, a remote community of roughly 400 Yup’ik people in Northwest Alaska. Newtok was losing forty to a hundred feet of coastline a year to erosion, and sinking […]

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Digital Pay-Meter Playbook

Digital Pay-Meter Playbook

The past half-decade has seen a digital subscription renaissance in the news publishing industry. Our research suggests publishers should invest in capabilities to engage in constant testing and experimentation in digital — to build engagement among digital audiences and ultimately convert engaged readers into paying subscribers.

“They Don’t Give a Damn about Governing”
Conservative Media’s Influence on the Republican Party

“They Don’t Give a Damn about Governing”
Conservative Media’s Influence on the Republican Party

A paper by Jackie Calmes, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and national correspondent for The New York Times, examines the increasing influence of conservative media on the Republican Party’s agenda. Calmes traces the history of conservative media, from its founding after World War II to the present-day proliferation of talk radio and Internet personalities. She […]

They Don't Give a Damn about Governing