The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 cohort of Shorenstein Fellows.  Shorenstein Fellows join the center for a semester or year of research, events, and engagement with HKS students, faculty, and the wider university community. This semester’s fellows are working on research related to healthy democracy, […]

Cambridge, Mass. – Oct. 4, 2017 – To provide news outlets that produce coverage on single topics with training and best practices on how to find, build and engage audiences, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based at Harvard Kennedy School, is launching a new two-year initiative with $683,000 from the John […]

This semester the Shorenstein Center will welcome five new fellows to campus to conduct research and engage with students and the Harvard Kennedy School community. Shorenstein Center Director Nancy Gibbs says, “We are excited to welcome such a fascinating group of Fall fellows to the Shorenstein center, with a broad range of experience across media, […]

October 23, 2012 –  Steve Levy, senior writer at Wired magazine, spent two years immersed in the “Googleplex,” researching how the company works, how it makes money, and what it values. He shared with the Shorenstein Center three key takeaways that he learned from Google, which are featured in his book, In the Plex: How […]

The HKS Misinformation Review’s latest special issue presents peer-reviewed articles that place the current field of misinformation research into historical perspective. Guest edited by A.J. Bauer (University of Alabama) and Anthony Nadler (Ursinus College).

Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, uses survey data and focus group material from Reuters Institute research to present an overview of user perspectives on “fake news” and misinformation.

Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. This Week at the Shorenstein Center News Coverage of the 2016 National Conventions: Negative News, Lacking Context. New research from Thomas Patterson analyzes news coverage of the 2016 Republican and Democratic […]