Renee Loth

Renée Loth

Renée Loth was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is a columnist for the Boston Globe and is the newspaper’s former editorial page editor. In that capacity, Loth was the highest-ranking woman at the Globe for nine years. Loth holds a journalism degree from Boston University, where she edited the campus newspaper during the 1970s. She then edited the East Boston Community News, worked as a political reporter for the Boston Phoenix and later became associate editor of New England Monthly magazine. In 1985, she was hired by the Boston Globe as a staff writer for the Sunday magazine. She went on to cover Governor Dukakis and other politicians as a State House bureau reporter. In 1992, she covered the presidential campaign, inaugurating the popular Ad Watch column analyzing TV political ads. She became the political editor in 1993, and deputy editor of the editorial page in 1994. Renée Loth is a regular contributor to local and national news panels, and is vice-chair of the board of PEN-New England. With the support of traveling journalism fellowships, she has reported from 14 countries.

Renee Loth

Renée Loth: What Good is Government?

Renée Loth, fall 2011 fellow and Boston Globe columnist, argues that conservatives have been more successful at wielding language to “frame public perceptions of issues and institutions,” resulting in the denigration of services the government provides. Read more in The Boston Globe.

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Renée Loth: Women Voters Can Send a Message to Trump

Renée Loth, fall 2011 fellow and Boston Globe columnist, argues that in an election year with “a gender gap of historic proportions,” women will be pivotal not only in choosing the next president, but in rejecting the “objectifying view of women that Trump promotes.” Read more in The Boston Globe.

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Renée Loth: Escaping Solitary

September 17, 2015 — Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2011), argues that Massachusetts’ solitary confinement policies are outdated, inhumane and in need of reform. Read more in The Boston Globe…

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Globe’s Renée Loth analyzes attack ads in the 2010 midterms

November 2, 2010 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist, to discuss this year’s midterm campaign’s particular influx of political attack ads. This has been “the most expensive midterm election in the history of the country,” said Loth, with more than $4 billion spent on advertising. There has been

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Politicians and the Press: The Anatomy of a Complicated Relationship

November 16, 2009 – A conversation with Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and Democratic nominee for president in 1988, and Renee Loth, The Boston Globe. Moderated by Dan Okrent, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

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T.H. White Seminar discusses press’s role, responsibility

November 13, 2009 — The 2009 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Taylor Branch‘s T.H. White lecture, and brought together a distinguished group of panelists. Included were Dan Balz, political correspondent, The Washington Post; Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor

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Renee Loth

Renée Loth: What Good is Government?

Renée Loth, fall 2011 fellow and Boston Globe columnist, argues that conservatives have been more successful at wielding language to “frame public perceptions of issues and institutions,” resulting in the denigration of services the government provides. Read more in The Boston Globe.

Read More »
Renee Loth

Renée Loth: Women Voters Can Send a Message to Trump

Renée Loth, fall 2011 fellow and Boston Globe columnist, argues that in an election year with “a gender gap of historic proportions,” women will be pivotal not only in choosing the next president, but in rejecting the “objectifying view of women that Trump promotes.” Read more in The Boston Globe.

Read More »
Renee Loth

Renée Loth: Escaping Solitary

September 17, 2015 — Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist and Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2011), argues that Massachusetts’ solitary confinement policies are outdated, inhumane and in need of reform. Read more in The Boston Globe…

Read More »

Globe’s Renée Loth analyzes attack ads in the 2010 midterms

November 2, 2010 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist, to discuss this year’s midterm campaign’s particular influx of political attack ads. This has been “the most expensive midterm election in the history of the country,” said Loth, with more than $4 billion spent on advertising. There has been

Read More »

Politicians and the Press: The Anatomy of a Complicated Relationship

November 16, 2009 – A conversation with Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and Democratic nominee for president in 1988, and Renee Loth, The Boston Globe. Moderated by Dan Okrent, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

Read More »

T.H. White Seminar discusses press’s role, responsibility

November 13, 2009 — The 2009 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Taylor Branch‘s T.H. White lecture, and brought together a distinguished group of panelists. Included were Dan Balz, political correspondent, The Washington Post; Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor

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