When a Russian leader threatens the use of tactical nuclear weapons, or, worse, a nuclear war, he immediately commands the attention of an American president. So it was with Joe Biden in September 2022 during the early months of the Ukraine War, and so it was with John F. Kennedy during the building of the […]

Incessant sirens are easily ignored, and a media focused on the facts, not the threats, could do a public service to democracy.

This event, held on the first day of Transgender Awareness Week, November 14, 2022, celebrated the accomplishments of transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people while raising awareness on the bills, policies, structural racism, transphobia, and violence that affects the LGBTQIA+ community and the work that still needs to be done to achieve justice.

October 21, 2010 — Mark McKinnon, Republican political advisor, president of Maverick Media, and the vice-chairman of Public Strategies, Inc., joined the Shorenstein Center for an event discussing “The Hotter the Water, the Stronger the Tea Party.” McKinnon opened his talk with a video clip that showed highlights of the past few months in the […]

March 3, 2009 — Judging from his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Fallen Sky: Finding a Way Forward After the Media Shakeout,” New York Times media columnist David Carr is equal parts pessimist and optimist. What did Carr think of the recently announced cancellation of the 2009 newspaper editors’ convention? “An extinction event,” he said in […]

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CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, located at the Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of its fall 2016 fellows. “In the midst of a rapidly changing media, politics and policy environment both domestically and abroad, each of these Shorenstein Fellows is uniquely suited to lead the […]