Funding will help improve research and education tool, Journalist’s Resource, and support collaboration between journalism school deans Cambridge, Mass.—Dec. 11, 2014—Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy will update and improve Journalist’s Resource, a tool that connects journalists, educators and students with reliable research from around the world, and bring together leading journalism […]

While trust in political institutions rapidly deteriorates and the technology and media companies that we rely on repeatedly fail to meet our information needs, the public still overwhelmingly trusts libraries. That’s because librarians fulfill a service mission as community information stewards–long serving as the only place people can go for free internet access, computer instruction, […]

Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.  Recent public attention and debate around “fake news” has highlighted the growing challenge of determining information veracity online. This is a complex and dynamic problem at the intersection of technology, human cognition, and human behavior—i.e. our strategies and heuristics for making […]

October 13–14, 2006 — How the media impacts politics and policy decision-making has been the subject of intense conjecture and debate for decades. The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy was founded in 1986 to address these very questions. Named for the late CBS Evening News producer Joan Shorenstein Barone and […]

We’ve seen many press stories in the past year about the headwinds facing legacy entertainment media companies due to the economic challenges brought about by digital transformation, competing forms of entertainment, and labor strikes that effectively closed the business for six months. During my 30 years as an executive in the media field– at HBO, […]

Ever since Google’s web spiders began crawling the Internet, people who care about the news have been trying to figure out how to save journalism. Most of the focus has been on the newspaper industry, but the broadcast television news business is also in trouble.

April 30, 2013 – Google’s head of news and social products Richard Gingras spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the evolution of the news ecosystem, and how media institutions can stay relevant in a changing technological landscape.

CAMBRIDGE, MA—The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based at Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of its fall 2018 fellows. “This cohort of fellows brings an especially diverse range of experiences to the Kennedy School,” said Shorenstein Center Director Nicco Mele. “From broadcast journalism to digital media, from U.S. […]

The mission of the Joan Shorenstein Fellowship Program is to advance research in the field of media, politics and public policy; facilitate a dialogue among journalists, scholars, policymakers and students; provide an opportunity for reflection; and create a vibrant and long-lasting community of scholars and practitioners. The primary focus for a Fellow is to research, […]