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A Look Back at 2021 at the Shorenstein Center

A Look Back at 2021 at the Shorenstein Center

To receive our monthly newsletter and other roundups like this, of work happening across the Shorenstein Center, sign up for our mailing list.  The Shorenstein Center enjoyed enormous expansion and growth in 2021, welcoming a large cohort of new faculty and fellows this year – from our brilliant behavioral decision scientists to the incomparable and […]

Spring 2022 Joan Shorenstein Fellows

Spring 2022 Joan Shorenstein Fellows

This spring the Shorenstein Center welcomes three new Joan Shorenstein Fellows who will conduct research and student and public engagement on issues relating to the regulation of technology, digital consumer protection, the impacts of algorithmic systems on communites and democracies, and the ways that networked groups of volunteers and humanitarian aid workers respond to major […]

Research and Resources on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Research and Resources on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Faculty, fellows, and researchers from across the Shorenstein Center are focusing on the war in Ukraine. They are helping to understand the role of disinformation and media manipulation tactics on the war and coverage of it, how a free and independent press is essential to understanding conflict, how people can communicate through the fog of […]

New Media Manipulation Casebook

New Media Manipulation Casebook

The Media Manipulation Casebook is a new open-access digital research platform produced by Shorenstein Center Research Director Joan Donovan and the Technology and Social Change Project.

Dr. Joan Donovan
Announcing the inaugural class of fellows for documentary film professionals and scholars

Announcing the inaugural class of fellows for documentary film professionals and scholars

This fall, the Shorenstein Center is thrilled to welcome its first cohort of documentary film fellows under the auspices of the center’s newly-established Documentary Film in the Public Interest research initiative. Documentary films play a vital role in our civic culture by investigating injustices, unearthing forgotten histories, connecting to new perspectives and speaking truth to […]

A Turning Point in the Oversight of Digital Platforms: A Challenge for American Leadership

A Turning Point in the Oversight of Digital Platforms: A Challenge for American Leadership

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 […]

Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?
Searching for a better way to cover a campaign

Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?
Searching for a better way to cover a campaign

In a new paper released by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, Spring 2013 Fellow Peter Hamby, who covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential races for CNN, examines the challenges of reporting on a modern political race in today’s volatile online media ecosystem.

Peter Hamby
Shorenstein Center Announces Spring 2019 Fellows

Shorenstein Center Announces Spring 2019 Fellows

CAMBRIDGE, MA—The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based at Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce its Spring 2019 class of fellows. “This group of journalists, media executives, and government officials brings an incredible depth of intellectual and professional experience to the Shorenstein Center at a time when the future of journalism […]