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Mother Jones Wins the 2017 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center

Mother Jones Wins the 2017 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center

Cambridge, MA — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School has been awarded to Shane Bauer of Mother Jones for his investigative report “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard.” Bauer spent four months working as a guard to get […]

2017 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics with Nancy Gibbs: “The Divided States of America”

2017 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics with Nancy Gibbs: “The Divided States of America”

November 15, 2017 — Nancy Gibbs, editorial director of Time Inc. News Group and former editor of Time Magazine, delivered a thought-provoking speech on American values, political polarization, and the impact of social media and journalism. Also at the event, Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe columnist, received the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism. Watch the video […]

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Dealing with Leaks in the Age of AI and Disinformation

Dealing with Leaks in the Age of AI and Disinformation

This webinar offers concrete strategies to equip journalists with the tools they need to navigate leaks with integrity, rigor, and security. It was co-sponsored by The Journalist’s Resource.

David All targets brand supporters to empower activists

David All targets brand supporters to empower activists

November 9, 2010 — David All, founder of TechRepublican.com and president of the David All Group, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “How to Reach, Engage and Empower Brand Activists.” As an early Republican blogger on Capitol Hill, All says he “learned quickly the power of earned media,” and found that he could “create media […]

Philip Bennett – News and Democracy: The Missing Pieces

Philip Bennett – News and Democracy: The Missing Pieces

March 8, 2016 — Philip Bennett, former managing editor for The Washington Post and PBS’s FRONTLINE, explored how the promise of the digital revolution has fallen short for some aspects of media and civic engagement, and why news outlets should have an interest in improving the situation. Bennett, who is currently the Patterson Professor of […]

Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to present the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to: “FEMA’s Disasters” by Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran of The Washington Post.   About the winning investigative reporting project, and its impact: Washington Post reporters spent 2021 traversing the […]

Kaplan: First 100 days has shown what Obama wants to accomplish

Kaplan: First 100 days has shown what Obama wants to accomplish

April 7, 2009 — Rick Kaplan kicked off his brown-bag talk, titled “The First 100 Days and the Press,” by seemingly minimizing the importance of the very thing he’d come to talk about. “There’s nothing magical about the first 100 days,” he said. “It’s a benchmark that journalists and writers have set up, because we […]

Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent

Shorenstein Fellowship | Spring 2006
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