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New York Times’ wins Nicholas D. Kristof Receives Career Award Goldsmith Prize In an evening celebrating the At the 2013 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony policy issue embedded in something as importance of on March 5, Chicago Tribune report- familiar and unthreatening as a sofa,” said journalism, New ers Patricia Callahan, and Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein York Times col- Michael Hawthorne took home the Center. “It goes to prove the importance of umnist Nicho- $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative not just looking, but seeing and acting.” las D. Kristof Reporting for their report “Playing with See page 3 for more information and photos. called for more Fire.” The investigative series revealed how risk taking in a deceptive campaign by the chemi- media as well as cal and tobacco industries brought increased engagement with a global world. toxic flame retardants into people’s The press must experiment with new homes and bodies, despite the fact platforms and find new business models, that the dangerous chemicals don’t he said, and journalism must confront the work as promised. As a result of growing mistrust the public feels toward it. the investigation, the U.S. Senate “At its best, this can still really play such revived toxic chemical reform an important role in any society,” he said. legislation and California moved to “I hope we in journalism will continue to revamp the rules responsible for the recognize that our great power is in laying presence of dangerous chemicals in out an agenda, shining a spotlight, rather furniture sold nationwide. than classic punditry,” he added. “The judges this year were espe- Kristof, recipient of the Shorenstein cially struck by the initiative shown Alex Jones with Chicago Tribune reporters Sam Roe, Patricia Callahan and Center’s Goldsmith Career Award for in recognizing a very important Michael Hawthorne. Photography by Martha Stewart. Excellence in Journalism, was the keynote speaker at the Goldsmith Awards cer- emony. In presenting the award, Shoren- stein Center Director Alex S. Jones said Spring 2013 that Kristof was “the journalist in our time who has done more to change the world Fellows than anyone.” A columnist for The Shorenstein Center’s since 2001, Kristof writes op-ed columns Spring Fellows for 2013 include that appear twice a week. He won the Peter Hamby, CNN; Melinda Pulitzer Prize two times, in 1990 and Henneberger, The Washington 2006. In 2012, he was a Pulitzer finalist in Post; John Huey, formerly, Commentary for his 2011 columns that Time Inc.; Martin Nisenholtz, often focused on the disenfranchised in The New York Times; Paul many parts of the world. Kristof and his Sagan, formerly, Akamai rich for students,” said Alex Jones, the wife, Sheryl WuDunn, are authors of the Technologies; and Michael Slaby, 2012 Center’s director. best-selling book, Half the Sky: Turning Obama campaign. Shorenstein Fellows spend the semes- Oppression into Opportunity for Women “We have an all-star group of fellows ter researching and writing a paper, and Worldwide, published in 2009. from the heights of journalism and politics interacting with students and members of and the pinnacle of digital technology, and the Harvard community. Visit shorensteincenter.org for the video and it promises to be a semester that is super- See page 4 for complete bios of the Fellows. transcript of the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony. 2 JOAN SHORENSTEIN CENTER ON THE PRESS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY

Goldsmith Awards Honor Journalistic Excellence The Goldsmith Awards Ceremony held on of data in a world where March 5, 2013, recognized six outstand- that data is the basis of ing journalism teams as finalists for the judgments and decision. Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Report- The Center for Public ing. “There is a lot of bad stuff going on Integrity, Global Integ- out there, and these Goldsmith finalists rity and Public Radio highlight the importance of exposing it.” International, with said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shoren- additional coopera- stein Center. tion from members of The winning team wasChicago Tribune the Investigative News reporters Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Network were finalists Michael Hawthorne for their series, “Play- for their piece, “State ing with Fire.” According to the judges, the Integrity Investigation,” investigation was “a case study in how bad an unprecedented, data- problems flow from bad regulation and driven analysis of each bad lobbying.” state’s laws and practices The finalists were the following: that deter corruption and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood at the Alan Judd, Heather Vogell, John Perry, promote accountability Goldsmith Awards Ceremony. M.B. Pell from The Journal-Con- and openness. Results of to report to law enforcement any cases stitution for “Cheating our Children.” The this series include an ever-growing num- not previously disclosed. The Scouts also year-long series on irregularities in stan- ber of states that have sparked or acceler- apologized to victims of abuse and offered dardized testing revealed that pressure for ated reform in government, ranging from to pay for their counseling. ever-higher test scores had led to apparent the increase in disclosure requirements for “This series exposed new levels of cheating by teachers and school adminis- lobbyists and government officials, to the wrongdoing and cover-up and intimida- trators across the nation. The newspaper’s formation of panels to explore ideas for an tion” at an iconic institution, said the reporting, based on its unprecedented ethics reform package. judges. “We had no idea the extent of what analysis of tens of thousands of test results, The judges described this finalist as “a was happening.” initiated a national conversation about wonderful blueprint for reporters all over , Keith Bradsher, the long-term effects of the accountability the country to do the enterprising stories , and David provisions of the federal No Child Left on government” that the Goldsmith Prizes Kocieniewski of The New York Times Behind Act. seek to encourage. “It was a major resource for “The iEconomy.” This series revealed The Goldsmith judges noted that the for journalists and citizens.” the harsh, at times deadly conditions Journal-Constitution’s series was “a stun- Jason Felch, Kim Christensen and under which Chinese workers assembling ning feat of work and analysis” that went to other members of the Los Angeles Times iPhones and iPads live and work; the low the heart of the importance of the integrity stafffor their investigation, “The Shame pay and high turnover at Apple’s retail of the Boy Scouts.” The stores; the lengths to which Apple went to Los Angeles Times made reduce its tax bill, and the shortsighted- public thousands of files ness of its conclusion that Apple products documenting sexual abuse couldn’t be manufactured in America. As of Boy Scouts by their a result of their series, Chinese working troop leaders, resulting conditions and salaries have improved, in reforms that will help Apple has announced it will invest money ensure the protection of into manufacturing some computers in the children. The Boy Scouts U.S. and Congress opened an investigation of America has launched into technology company tactics to reduce a comprehensive review tax bills. of the files, with a promise “The articles were a revealing look at Douglas Shorenstein receives a round of the production practices of American applause at the Goldsmith Awards for his companies that few knew anything continued support of the Shorenstein Center. about,” said the judges. “They exposed a

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overhauled its compliance and investigation protocols. “It took The New York Book Prize Times to get this deep look at a huge company that seemed to think it was Winners above the law,” said the judges, and the result was “such a black eye” for Wal- Mart. The Goldsmith Prizes are underwritten by an annual gift from the Goldsmith Fund of the Greenfield Foundation. The Investiga- tive Reporting Prize, which Chicago Tribune reporter Patricia Callahan embraces her colleague Michael carries a $10,000 award Jonathan Ladd Hawthorne when their team is announced as the Goldsmith Prize winner. for finalists and $25,000 Why Americans Hate the Media for the winner, is intended disturbing insight into a glamour sector of ACADEMIC our economy.” to recognize and encourage journalism also of The New York which promotes more effective and ethical TRADE Times for “Wal-Mart Abroad.” In his conduct of government, the making of series, Barstow demonstrated not only that public policy, or the practice of politics Wal-Mart’s conquest of Mexico was built by disclosing excessive secrecy, impropri- on a secret foundation of corruption, but ety and mismanagement, or instances of it also revealed how top executives feared particularly commendable government exposure of their practices and made performance. attempts to keep them in the dark. As a result of this series, the Justice Department and the Securities Exchange Commission Video, Storify and are investigating for violations of the fed- photos are available at Rebecca MacKinnon eral antibribery law, the Foreign Corrupt http://hvrd.me/11Xs7Ua  Practices Act. Wal-Mart has also radically Consent of the Networked

RECENT PUBLICATIONS http://shorensteincenter.org/research-publications/papers/ JOSHUA TARA MATTHEW C. PARTLOW McKELVEY NISBET Podium Wars: Media Coverage Nature’s Prophet: President Hamid of the Drone Bill McKibben as Karzai, the Program Journalist, Public Foreign Press, Tara McKelvey, Intellectual and and the Afghan feature writer Activist War for BBC News, Matthew C. Joshua Partlow, foreign correspondent examines the media coverage of the Nisbet, Associate Professor at American for , looks at press U.S. drone program in five major news University, examines the impact of coverage of President Karzai and his outlets. “knowledge journalism” on the climate criticism of it. change debate.

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SPRINGFELLOWS Peter Hamby is a national Melinda Henneberger is political reporter for CNN, a political writer for The Washington bureau. He Washington Post, where she reports on campaigns and writes a column and anchors politics for CNN’s domestic the She the People blog. She was and international television a correspondent for The New networks and covers digital York Times in the Washington politics for CNN.com. He MELINDA and Rome bureaus, and was PETER HAMBY covered the 2012 presidential HENNEBERGER the founder and editor-in-chief race, with a focus on the of Politics Daily, an online Republican primary contest and ’s campaign. political news magazine. Henneberger has also written for The During the 2008 race, he was an embedded producer and New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Slate, New off-air reporter covering the campaigns of , York Newsday and . She is the author of If John McCain and . Hamby joined CNN in 2005 They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to as producer on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. While a Hear. Her research project will focus on examining the risk-averse Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, he will look into the impact of and inauthentic behavior of presidential candidates in campaigns, online journalism on political campaigns. and if that inauthenticity guarantees failure in politics. John Huey was editor-in-chief Martin Nisenholtz is a senior of Time Inc. from 2006–2012, advisor for The New York overseeing the editorial content Times Company and an adjunct of all its U.S. magazines, associate professor at the websites, and digital content Columbia Journalism School. including Time, People, Fortune, He was senior vice president of Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Digital Operations for The New Weekly and . He has MARTIN York Times Company from JOHN HUEY held senior executive positions NISENHOLTZ 2005-2012. He was the founding at Fortune and The Wall Street leader for nytimes.com in 1995 Journal. Huey worked at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution prior to and chief executive of New York Times Digital from 1999-2005. moving to Brussels in 1982 to help launch the Journal’s European Nisenholtz founded the Online Publishers Association and the edition as its founding managing editor and later as editor. He Interactive Marketing Group at Ogilvy & Mather. He began his co-authored Sam Walton: Made in America, the autobiography of career as a research scientist and assistant professor at NYU’s the late founder of Wal-Mart. Interactive Telecommunications Program. Paul Sagan was president Michael Slaby was Chief and chief executive officer of Integration and Innovation Akamai Technologies from Officer for the Obama 2005–2012. He joined the campaign in 2012 and Chief company in 1998 as COO. In Technology Officer for the 1981, he was a news writer at campaign in 2008. He has WCBS-TV and was named also worked as executive vice news director in 1987. In president and digital global PAUL SAGAN 1991, he joined Time Warner, MICHAEL SLABY practice chair at Edelman and launched NY 1 News, and chief technology strategist at was president and editor of new media at Time Inc., 1995–1997. TomorrowVentures. At the Shorenstein Center, Slaby will pursue He was managing editor of Time Warner’s News on Demand a project about how the changing relationships of individuals, project and was a senior member of the team responsible for the organizations (companies, publishers, advertisers), platforms, and development of the company’s online, cable, electronic publishing media companies affect engagement. and Internet publishing activities.

COLLABORATION John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz and Paul Sagan are working on an oral history of the intersection of the Internet and news featuring almost PROJECT 50 interviews with the principal players in this 40-year transformation. Photography by Martha Stewart.

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Hughes, who co-founded “When I say profitable, I’m Facebook with his roommate not saying we’re going to be Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, making money hand over fist.” Social mission and graduated from Harvard in He explained that, for him, Chris Hughes 2006. A year later, Hughes profitability is synonymous profit became director of online with “sustainability.” He said looks to blend organizing for ’s that there will likely be losses cultures of presidential campaign, launch- in 2013-14; but he expects in ing My.BarackObama.com and 2015 there will be the possibil- journalism, pioneering new techniques for ity of profit. new media political engagement, organiz- Hughes dismissed any ing and fundraising. notion that his purchase was In purchasing The New Repub- Asked if the journalistic His purchase of The New a “vanity” project or had lic, Chris Hughes, a Facebook focus of the magazine will Republic and decision to some other “ulterior motive.” co-founder, said he not only change, he noted that it will assume the dual role of editor- The point is to “empower the wants to help stabilize the shift away from “opinion in-chief and publisher has people who do this for a living,” financially troubled magazine journalism” to more reported been greeted with high levels he said. by 2015 but to put the publica- articles. The goal is to fill a of buzz, interest and specula- “I certainly didn’t buy the tion in the service of a wider “hole in the marketplace” — tion across the media, blog and magazine to expand a liberal mission. somewhere between the churn social spheres. The magazine, outlet,” Hughes said in reply to “It’s a double bottom-line of the daily news cycle and which will celebrate its 100th an audience question about the business,” he told Alex Jones, magazine outlets that focus birthday next year, was once outlet’s traditional association Director of the Shorenstein more on long-form storytell- an institution in the American with progressive causes. “…We Center, as part of a conversa- ing, he said. media and policy landscape. don’t have a party line any- tion at the Harvard Kennedy From a strategic editorial Due to financial troubles,The more.” Still, he acknowledged School on February 5. Hughes and technology perspective, New Republic’s staff had con- his readers and writers are for said that the magazine will Hughes said, the key is to “have tracted in recent years and its the most part liberal-leaning. have both a “social mission” our editorial staff continue to future remained uncertain. To get more subscribers and and the longer-term goal of engage in the content” after the “Do you have a tolerance for maintain their interest, Hughes profitability, and it will use a stories are initially published. basically losing money for a said, the magazine will employ variety of social media strate- “The conversation that contin- while?” Jones asked. many strategies. It will mean gies to accomplish both. ues after the piece is where a lot “What’s the definition of giving readers many streams of the impact can happen.” ‘a while’?” Hughes replied. for engagement.

Media, Energy and Environment: Global Communications Media/Politics Policy and Politics Advanced Intensive Writing: Columns Seminar: Democracy, Politics and CRISTINE RUSSELL, Adjunct Lecturer in and Opinion Writing Institutions (full year) Public Policy JEFFREY SEGLIN, Lecturer in Public THOMAS E. PATTERSON, Bradlee American Presidents, Politics & Economic Policy Professor of Government and the Press Growth The Arts of Communication RICHARD PARKER, Lecturer in Public Political Institutions and Public Policy: Policy TIMOTHY MCCARTHY, Adjunct American Politics Lecturer in Public Policy THOMAS E. PATTERSON and The Arts of Communication MATTHEW BAUM, Kalb Professor of Digital Policy Writing for Decision-makers Global Communications Advanced Policy Writing for Decision- Advanced Digital Studies in Politics, makers The Making of a Politician Policy and Media LUCI HERMAN, Lecturer in Public Policy STEVE JARDING, Lecturer in Public NICCO MELE, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Policy Introduction to Writing for Policy and 2020 Vision and Information Policy: Politics Press, Politics and Public Policy Considering the Public Interest Advanced Intensive Writing for Policy ALEX S. JONES, Laurence M. Lombard and Politics NOLAN BOWIE, Adjunct Lecturer in Spring 2013 Courses Lecturer on the Press and Public Policy GREG HARRIS, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Public Policy

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“The New “Time Past, Time “Privacy in the Objectivity: How Present, Time Digital Age.” Social Media Future.” JULIA Is Changing NANCY ANGWIN, Traditional GIBBS, deputy senior Reporting.” managing editor, technology MARGARET Time magazine; editor for The SULLIVAN, co-author with Wall Street Public Editor, The New York Times. Michael Duffy ofThe Presidents Club. Journal.

“Is Obama the “The Path to Democrats’ Profit for News Reagan?” SPRING and Magazines.” MICHAEL JOSH TOMASKY, Speaker TYRANGIEL, Newsweek/Daily editor of Beast special Bloomberg correspondent Series Businessweek and editor of Democracy: A Journal and an executive editor of Recaps & podcasts available at of Ideas. Bloomberg News. shorensteincenter.org/news-events/

“The Liberal “The New “Covering Case for Deficit Ecosystem of Congress in a Reduction.” Journalism Challenging GREG IP and Where It Is Political U.S. Economics Leading.” Landscape.” editor, The PAUL E. DANA Economist; STEIGER, BASH, chief author of executive congressional The Little Book of Economics: How the chairman of ProPublica’s board of correspondent, CNN. Economy Works in the Real World. directors. Journalist’s Resource Offers Broader Range of Materials; A Call to Scholars, Media Members Journalist’s Resource, a Shorenstein Center Articles on the site often curate and syn- The site now contains more than 1,000 project that aims to deepen understanding thesize findings from a variety of academic posts on various subjects. As it looks to around policy topics, is on course to see a papers and reports, creating a helpful produce more targeted materials in the half-million unique visitors in 2013, and “reading list” for anyone looking for valid future, Journalist’s Resource will seek to its role in social media continues to grow information online. Popular recent Web tap into wider networks of scholars and more powerful. The team behind the site posts include research reviews on gun con- experienced media members. If interested includes several staff editors and graduate trol, fracking and health effects, the emerg- in participating or learning more, please students, as well as Prof. Tom Patterson, ing field of Big Data and the impact of contact managing editor John Wihbey, Executive Director Nancy Palmer and negative political ads. These posts can help [email protected]. Director Alex Jones. Begun as an attempt inform coverage and ground reporting in to influence the direction of journalism solid research findings. The site stands as journalistsresource.org schools, the site has become a useful tool part of a larger research project and effort for a growing number of media members to promote what Tom Patterson, who will @journoresource and communicators of all kinds. publish a related book in late 2013, calls facebook.com/journalistsresource “knowledge-based journalism.”

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Faculty and Staff

ALEX S. JONES, Director; Laurence STEVE JARDING, Lecturer in Public THOMAS E. PATTERSON, Bradlee M. Lombard Lecturer on the Press and Policy Professor of Government and the Press Public Policy MARVIN KALB, Edward R. Murrow JILL REURS, Faculty & Program NANCY PALMER, Executive Director Professor of Practice Emeritus Assistant (Washington) JEFFREY SEGLIN, Lecturer in Public MATTHEW BAUM, Kalb Professor of ALEX KEYSSAR, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Policy; Director, Communications Global Communication Professor of History and Social Policy Program NOLAN BOWIE, Adjunct Lecturer in LEIGHTON W. KLEIN, Web Journalist JANELL SIMS, Communications Public Policy ALISON KOMMER, Faculty Assistant & Manager MARIE DANZIGER, Lecturer in Public Program Coordinator MARGARET WEIGEL, Web Journalist Policy KRISTINA MASTROPASQUA, Faculty JOHN WIHBEY, Managing Editor, JAMES FLEMING, Financial Manager & Program Assistant Journalist’s Resource GREG HARRIS, Adjunct Lecturer in NICCO MELE, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Public Policy Policy ASSOCIATES LUCIANA HERMAN, Lecturer in Public PIPPA NORRIS, Paul F. McGuire Maxine Isaacs Marion Just Policy Lecturer in Comparative Politics Jonathan Moore Daniel Okrent Nguyen Anh Tuan EDITH HOLWAY, Events and Fellows RICHARD PARKER, Lecturer in Public Program Director Policy

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