Joan Shorenstein Fellowship and Application
Apply for the Joan Shorenstein Fellowship Please read the following information and scroll to the bottom of the page to apply. Applications now open for the Fall 2021 Joan Shorenstein Fellowship. Read below to learn more about the fellowship and…
Publications by Author/Date
Publications by Author/Date Fellows’ papers, Shorenstein Center reports and case studies. Name Order Date Order Name Order A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Z…
‘Endangered’ political cartoonist confident in art form’s survival
November 1, 2011 — Dan Wasserman, editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe, describes himself as a “savage” and part of an “endangered species.” The reason there are “fewer than 50” editorial cartoonists today, he said at a Shorenstein Center event,…
Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network
Alexis Gelber Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2011 Formerly, Newsweek magazine Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama emerged as the champion of new media by using social networking tools in innovative ways to…
AFP’s Daphne Benoit says military and media need mutual trust
March 9, 2010 — The military and the media have a “complex relationship,” said Daphne Benoit, Pentagon correspondent for Agence France Press (AFP), at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event. They need each other but have “conflicting interests.” The media values…
Gov 2.0 brings together students, government, technologists
March 6, 2010 — The Gov 2.0 Camp New England went a long way toward proving that “spontaneous” and “organized” aren’t mutually exclusive terms. Described as an “unconference,” the event brought together a wide range of participants, including government employees,…
Online editor looks at future of newsrooms
October 21, 2008 — Editor of washingtonpost.com Elizabeth Spayd has a print background, but an online future – a reflection of journalism today. Spayd spoke Tuesday about the future of newsrooms in a world increasingly focused towards online news content…
Window to the West: How Television from the Federal Republic Influenced Events in East Germany
A paper by Dieter Buhl, spring 1990 fellow, examines how television from West Germany influenced political developments in East Germany in the 1980s. Buhl’s study suggests that television functioned on at least two levels leading up to the fall of…
