Elizabeth Becker

Elizabeth Becker

Elizabeth Becker, an author and journalist, was the Edelman Family Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. Becker has had a long and distinguished journalism career, from her time as a reporter at the Washington Post (1972–80), senior foreign editor at National Public Radio (1992–95), and as a reporter for The New York Times (1995–2005). She has been a war correspondent in Asia, and specializes in foreign affairs and international economics. She is the author of the book, When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Becker graduated from the University of Washington in 1969.

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

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Lost in the Travel Pages: The Global Industry Hiding Inside the Sunday Newspaper

A paper by Elizabeth Becker, spring 2008 fellow, explores why the business side of travel is so seldom covered by journalists – and the implications. Despite being a fast-growing, $7 trillion international industry that impacts cities and wilderness, sometimes quite negatively, the effects of tourism get “a pass from the media,” according to Becker. She describes

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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

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Lost in the Travel Pages: The Global Industry Hiding Inside the Sunday Newspaper

A paper by Elizabeth Becker, spring 2008 fellow, explores why the business side of travel is so seldom covered by journalists – and the implications. Despite being a fast-growing, $7 trillion international industry that impacts cities and wilderness, sometimes quite negatively, the effects of tourism get “a pass from the media,” according to Becker. She describes

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