Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the university’s Annenberg School for Communication. Jamieson is a co-founder of FactCheck.org and its subsidiary site, SciCheck, which monitors political speech for the misuse of science. She has authored or co-authored 15 books, including The Obama Victory and Spiral of Cynicism. While at the Shorenstein Center, Jamieson will explore the role of the press in reinforcing democratic discourse norms.

Announcing the HKS Misinformation Review

January 14, 2020

The Shorenstein Center is proud to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. The HKS Misinformation Review is an open-source, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal focused on all aspects of misinformation and featuring methodologically diverse, peer-reviewed, empirical research and cutting-edge commentary. Articles and commentaries published by the HKS Misinformation Review are edited

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Trump on newspaper front page

News Coverage of the 2016 General Election: How the Press Failed the Voters

December 7, 2016

A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage during the 2016 general election, and concludes that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump received coverage that was overwhelmingly negative in tone and extremely light on policy. The negativity was not unique to the 2016 election cycle

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Tom Patterson

Media Bias, Partisanship and What It Means for Democracy

April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014 – How are partisan media sources affecting the character of democracy? How extreme is media bias? What does the latest, deepest research say about these questions? These topics were the focus of the 2014 Partisan Media Seminar Series held at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and organized by Matthew Baum, Kalb

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Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press

April 10, 2014

April 10, 2014 – “Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press: The Implications of Media Bias for Democracy.” Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; and Jesse Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government

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Shorenstein Center hosts briefing on health care reform

September 30, 2009

September 30, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center sponsored a briefing for journalists on health care reform at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The event featured two panels moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy: The first panel was “News Coverage of Health Reform: Metanarratives

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Panel: “Media and Democracy.”

October 13, 2006

October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Media and Democracy.” Moderator: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Main presenter: Nik Gowing, BBC World, former Shorenstein Fellow. Panelists: Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker, former Shorenstein Fellow; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Bill Kovach, formerly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Committee of

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Announcing the HKS Misinformation Review

January 14, 2020

The Shorenstein Center is proud to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. The HKS Misinformation Review is an open-source, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal focused on all aspects of misinformation and featuring methodologically diverse, peer-reviewed, empirical research and cutting-edge commentary. Articles and commentaries published by the HKS Misinformation Review are edited

Read More »
Trump on newspaper front page

News Coverage of the 2016 General Election: How the Press Failed the Voters

December 7, 2016

A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage during the 2016 general election, and concludes that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump received coverage that was overwhelmingly negative in tone and extremely light on policy. The negativity was not unique to the 2016 election cycle

Read More »
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Tom Patterson

Media Bias, Partisanship and What It Means for Democracy

April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014 – How are partisan media sources affecting the character of democracy? How extreme is media bias? What does the latest, deepest research say about these questions? These topics were the focus of the 2014 Partisan Media Seminar Series held at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and organized by Matthew Baum, Kalb

Read More »

Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press

April 10, 2014

April 10, 2014 – “Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press: The Implications of Media Bias for Democracy.” Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; and Jesse Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government

Read More »

Shorenstein Center hosts briefing on health care reform

September 30, 2009

September 30, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center sponsored a briefing for journalists on health care reform at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The event featured two panels moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy: The first panel was “News Coverage of Health Reform: Metanarratives

Read More »

Panel: “Media and Democracy.”

October 13, 2006

October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Media and Democracy.” Moderator: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Main presenter: Nik Gowing, BBC World, former Shorenstein Fellow. Panelists: Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker, former Shorenstein Fellow; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Bill Kovach, formerly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Committee of

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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.

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