Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
| Established | 1986 |
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| Director | Nicco Mele |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | ShorensteinCenter.org |
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard University research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice.
Among other activities, the center organizes dozens of yearly events for journalists, scholars and the public, many of which take place at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Courses taught by Shorenstein Center professors are also an integral part of the Harvard Kennedy School's curriculum; as of 2014, faculty at the center include Michael Ignatieff, the Canadian author, academic and former politician;Steve Jarding, an international educator and political consultant; Matthew Baum, the Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications; and Thomas E. Patterson, the author and Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press.
Since its founding in 1986, the center has also emerged as a significant source for research on U.S. campaigns, elections and journalism. The center hosts an average of four fellows each semester, all of whom produce a major piece of research on a broad range of topics. Papers have included "Riptide: What Really Happened to the News Business," by John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz and Paul Sagan; "Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?" by Peter Hamby of CNN and Snapchat; and "Digital Fuel of the 21st Century," by Vivek Kundra, who was the first chief information officer of the United States from March 2009 to August 2011 under President Barack Obama.
The Shorenstein Center also awards the annual Goldsmith Awards Program, which includes the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Goldsmith Book Prize. Past winners have included James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times; Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune; and Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post. Other prizes and lectures given by the Shorenstein Center include the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism, the Shorenstein Prize, the T.H. White Lecture on Press and Politics and the Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press.
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