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A Tale of Two Elections, by Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School

A Tale of Two Elections: CBS and Fox News’ Portrayal of the 2020 Presidential Campaign

December 17, 2020

Although it is often said that the United States today has a mainstream news system and a conservative news system, these labels don’t fully capture how CBS and Fox covered the 2020 campaign. Their coverage is the tale of two elections, says Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, in the latest installment of his decades-long research on campaign media coverage.

Emerging For-Profit Models in Local News

July 3, 2019

The following case studies are part of the Landscape Study of Local News Models Across America Minneapolis Star Tribune The Minneapolis Star Tribune, a for-profit daily, delivers comprehensive coverage of the state of Minnesota, digitally and in print, on a 24/7 basis. The paper is owned by billionaire Glen Taylor, who is also the majority

Accountability and Transparency: National Security, the Media and the Public Good

December 2, 2013

December 2, 2013 – “Accountability and Transparency: National Security, the Media and the Public Good.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Joe Klein, Shorenstein Fellow and columnist at Time magazine; and Frank Thorp IV, a retired Navy Rear Admiral, was the U.S. Navy’s chief of information for the Department of the Navy providing strategic communication counsel

The Power of TV News: An Insider’s Perspective on the Launch of BBC Persian TV in the Year of the Iranian Uprising

February 1, 2010

Stephen Williams Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2009 Executive Editor, Asia Pacific Region, BBC Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Introduction “Well, of course you’re from MI6. You’re a spy.” … “Pass the pomegranate juice, please.” The accusation was made to the director of the BBC’s World Service, Nigel Chapman. He and I and the BBC’s

Joe Klein: Diplomacy ‘crucial’ in Iran and Afghanistan

October 14, 2009

October 14, 2009 —Time magazine columnist Joe Klein was introduced at the Shorenstein brown-bag lunch by Director Alex S. Jones as “deeply informed, outspoken, clear thinking,” in covering the “troublesome parts of world affairs.” Klein spoke on Obama’s foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iran, describing his own experiences in that part of the world as

Shorenstein Center hosts national convention events

August 28, 2004

July 25 and August 28, 2004 — Since 1992, the Shorenstein Center has sponsored a brunch and panel discussion prior to the start of the national political conventions. In 2004, the Center was delighted to host one of these events “at home” in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard on the Sunday before

Shorenstein Center hosts panel on impact of Internet on democracy

August 13, 2000

August 13, 2000 — The day before the Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles’s Regal Biltmore Hotel was the site of a panel on the impact of the Internet on democracy, hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. During the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, much attention was paid to

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