CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based at Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of fall 2017 fellows and visiting faculty. “I am delighted to welcome a stellar group of scholars, journalists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to join the Shorenstein Center this fall,” said Center Director Nicco […]

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 cohort of Shorenstein Fellows. Shorenstein Fellows join the center for a year of research, events, and engagement with HKS students, faculty, and the wider university community. This semester’s new cohort includes technologists, behavioral scientists, content creators, and journalists. Center […]

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the Harvard Shorenstein News Leaders Summit, a new program to help newsroom leaders fight misinformation and media manipulation.  Launching this fall, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the program will bring together […]

January 11, 2007 – “China Bets on Its Future: Four Bets and the Future of the People’s Republic of China.” A panel discussion with Alex S. Jones, Director, Shorenstein Center; Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in Public Policy; Suzanne Ogden, Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University; Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research; John Pomfret, West Coast Correspondent and […]

January 10, 2007 — The 2007 recipient of the Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia is John Pomfret. The prize honors an American journalist or author for his or her contribution to our understanding of the Far East. It is awarded each year by Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Harvard’s Shorenstein […]

Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. This event occurred on May 5, 2021. More about the speaker and the research can be found below the video. Users’ perspectives on what f*ke news and misinformation is and isn’t, who drives it, and where people say they see it are important […]

In a new paper published today in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, a global team of researchers argue that we are seeing the rise of an important new scholarly approach – affectivism – that will grant new insights into the foundations of human behavior. The scholars, who come from disciplines ranging from computer science to philosophy, highlight […]