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Spring 2012 celebrating 2525 years Honored with Guardian’s Alan $25,000 Goldsmith Prize Rusbridger Wins The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investiga- Judiciary Committee and Justice Depart- Career Award tive Reporting has been awarded to Matt ment investigations. Apuzzo, , Eileen Sulli- “The Goldsmith judges found that the Alan Rusbridger, van and Chris Hawley of The Associated AP had shown great courage and forti- editor of the Press by the Shorenstein Center for their tude in pursuing what they knew would British-based investigative report “NYPD Intelligence be a very sensitive story, but it was one Guardian news- Division.” that needed to be told,” said Alex S. Jones, paper, addressed The New York Police Department, in director of the Shorenstein Center. an audience of close collaboration with students, faculty, the CIA and with nearly no journalists and outside oversight, developed members of clandestine spying programs the public on that monitored and cata- March 6 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. logued daily life in Muslim In his lecture, he emphasized the impor- communities, from where tance of “open journalism,” and how the people ate and shopped Guardian has made a priority of “under- to where they worked and standing how life has changed and how we prayed. can harness this revolution to provide a AP’s reporting led three better account of the world around us.” dozen lawmakers in Wash- Rusbridger received the Goldsmith ington to call for House Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones with the winners of the Goldsmith Prize for Career Award for Excellence in Journal- Investigative Reporting. Photography by Martha Stewart. ism in recognition of his leadership in ’s five-year investigation and exposure of phone hacking by employ- Spring Fellows and Faculty Are Leaders ees of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. He also led the Guardian’s negotiations with in Journalism and Digital Technology and subsequent publica- tion of WikiLeaks documents. Rusbridger “This semester the Shorenstein Center paper, and interacting with students and has been instrumental in the Guardian’s is once again bursting with brain members of the Harvard community. “digital-first” business strategy. power and talent,” said Alex Jones, See page 4 for complete bios of the Fellows. Alan Rusbridger has been editor of the the Center’s director. “Pulitzer Guardian since 1995. He is editor-in-chief Prize–winner Ron Suskind has a of Guardian News & Media, a member of life’s worth of writerly wisdom to the GNM and GMG Boards and a member impart; Micah Sifry and Susan of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guard- Crawford are on the forefront ian and the Observer. of the digital revolution; Nazila Fathi is a courageous Iranian journalist; David Greenway is one of the nation’s most respected In ThIS ISSue commentators on foreign affairs, and Nina Easton is a star of Goldsmith Seminar ...... 2 political and business reporting.” Google Execs Talk Policy ...... 3 Shorenstein Fellows spend the Panel Discussion on SOPA ...... 6 semester researching and writing a 2 JoAn SHoRenSTeIn CenTeR on THe PReSS, PoLITICS AnD PubLIC PoLICy

Goldsmith Seminar Looks at open Journalism and Collaboration in Investigative Reporting The finalists for the Goldsmith Awards in reporters took home the prize for “NYPD tion to observe pardon applicants, of the Political Journalism who gathered at Har- Intelligence Division,” a series that uncov- 189 people the president had pardoned, vard Kennedy School had uncovered racial ered the New York Police Department’s only four or five were minorities.” discrimination in presidential pardons, controversial domestic intelligence opera- While convincing convicted criminals to detailed a pattern of widespread sexual tion, which sent undercover officers into dredge up their pasts took finesse, the data assault in the Peace Corps, and exposed ethnic neighborhoods to spy on residents. project was a “monumental” undertaking, toxic water supplies in Texas. Their work “They call it mapping the human terrain Linzer said. revealed the New York Police Department’s of the city,” said the AP’s on “When you start with no data, that’s systematic profiling of Muslims and made March 7. “It’s actually mapping the Muslim always a big challenge,” joked Jennifer public the details of the 2008 federal bank terrain of the city.” LaFleur, Pro- bailout. The roundtable Publica’s director But the finalists represented not just offered a window of computer- the payoff of hard work, skill, and luck, onto the report- assisted report- but also an increasingly rarified stratum ing tactics that ing. ProPublica of their profession: investigative report- produced some of the past year’s success found that whites were nearly four times ing. As news organizations shrink and the stories in investigative journalism. more likely than blacks to win a pardon. Web demands more and faster news, the The investigative team at ABC News’ Bloomberg News received a special Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics “20/20,” for example, spent months build- citation for its reporting on the Federal and Public Policy’s annual celebration on ing trust and developing relationships with Reserve’s distribution of bailout money to March 7 of good old-fashioned muckrak- former Peace Corps volunteers who had too-big-to-fail banks. After three years of ing seemed more been assaulted or information requests and a legal battle that necessary than raped during their made it all the way to the Supreme Court, ever. service. While the Fed was finally forced to release 29,000 Investigative their report- pages of documents detailing the bailout reporting is “the most important kind of ing originally focused on the murder of to Bloomberg’s journalists. The kicker? journalism,” noted Alex S. Jones, director 24-year-old volunteer Kate Puzey in Benin, The Fed would only distribute the files in of the Shorenstein Center. “But it’s also the the story snowballed into a larger look unsearchable, uneditable PDF form. most difficult.” at the Peace Corps culture that silenced “One of my sources said that was just More than a dozen journalists attested to victims and made them feel responsible for giving us a giant middle finger,” said the challenges of that work in “The Present attacks. reporter Bob Ivry. and Future of Investigative Reporting,” a ProPublica’s series on presidential In some instances, reporters and editors roundtable discussion that followed the pardons started with a fortuitous phone must unmask difficult truths about their previous evening’s awards ceremony. That call placed after Dafna Linzer, a senior own industry. Alan Rusbridger, editor of night, a team of four Associated Press reporter, published a lighthearted piece the Guardian and the winner of the Gold- on celebrities who could smith Career Award for Excellence in Jour- potentially be pardoned by nalism, discovered just how hard that was George W. Bush before he when he took on Rupert Murdoch’s News left office. Corporation to report on the company’s The anonymous source illegal phone-hacking in Great Britain. “told me that the piece was “The press absolutely needs the kind of amusing, but the real story scrutiny that we would turn on oil compa- wasn’t who President Bush nies or banks or governments,” Rusbridger was going to pardon but said. “Whatever the obstacles, I think it’s who he had not,” Linzer our duty.” said. “The caller thought that, having been in a posi-

Adapted from “Investigative Journalism, alive and well,” by Matt Apuzzo, Katie Koch. Published on March 13 in the Harvard Gazette. and Anna Schecter.

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Goldsmith book Journalist’s Resource builds Content Prize Winners and online Presence, nyT Partnership aCadeMIC The Journalist’s Resource project at the In a unique and evolving partnership, Shorenstein Center continues to make Topics pages are now Jeffrey e. Cohen significant progress in terms of fostering featuring research roundups, with attri- Going Local: Presidential Leadership in and promoting what Research Director bution to Journalist’s Resource and the the Post-Broadcast Age and Bradlee Professor Tom Patterson has Shorenstein Center. Further, the research Trade called “knowledge-based that is spot- evgeny Morozov reporting.” lighted by The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Over the past year, the the project is Internet Freedom project’s website and studies filtering into database has seen more than the media at 100,000 unique visitors, and more than large, with and news articles – from 130 journalism schools are using the site The Atlantic and Miller-McCune to Patch. Leadership and in various ways. New, cutting-edge syllabi com – using the insights and data. from widely respected journalist-scholars Through citations and links in Wikipe- the Internet on areas such as health care and politics dia, the site’s summaries also are raising are being added. The project’s social media the more general levels of available public presence has greatly expanded, too, with policy information. Finally, the core data- its Facebook and audiences both base that the Journalist’s Resource team is growing into the sev- building continues eral thousands. The to grow, and is on site is also becoming track by year’s end a leader in bridging to approach 1,000 the gap between academic scholarship and up-to-date studies and reports on impor- Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas the mobile phone space, as the site has tant news topics. Indeed, the database is and former advisor to Condoleezza been mobile-optimized for reading and poised to become a premier reporting and Rice and Hillary Clinton, spoke to searching on smaller screens. Moreover, information tool, as it adds significant HKS students at an event co-spon- the project’s research team now has the efficiency to Internet research aimed at sored by the Shorenstein Center and assistance of nine Kennedy School gradu- state-of-knowledge understanding about the Center for Public Leadership. ate students, who leverage their policy subjects, from race and digital media to Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Pub- expertise in specific areas. climate change and political campaigns. lic Policy, moderated the discussion. journalistsresource.org | @journoresource | www.facebook.com/journalistsresource Google execs Discuss Data-Driven Policy The power of the Internet to influence and Chris Woods, Head of Global Industry public policy and economic growth was Relations and former HKS student. the topic discussed by a panel of Google Chou identified Google’s objectives as policy experts at a special event for Har- coordinating worldwide efforts, and look- vard Kennedy School students hosted by ing at long-term perspectives of copyright, the Shorenstein Center, HKS Communi- privacy and other issues. Google “advo- Dorothy Chou, Google Policy Analyst cations Program, HKS Office of Career cates for data-driven policy,” she said, and Advancement and the HKS student group is focused on “how to turn products into grounds.” Encouraging students to think Tech{for}Change on January 26. The panel policy solutions...and push the bounds of about working at Google, Ramaswami said included Dorothy Chou, Google Policy policy to ensure creative flexibility.” that the majority of Google employees “feel Analyst; Carley Graham Garcia, Manager Google is hiring, said Woods. “We are a certain passion and belief in the power of Global Industry Relations; Prem Ramas- looking for people who are smart, intel- of information and the Internet...and truly wami, former Google Project Manager; lectually curious...[and] from diverse back- believe it’s doing good for the world.”

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SpringfellowS NiNa EaStoN is Nazila Fathi is a a Goldsmith Fellow journalist, translator at the Shorenstein and commentator on Center. She is Iran. She reported out Fortune magazine’s of Iran for nearly two Washington columnist decades until 2009 and senior editor, when she was forced covering politics and to leave the country economics in the because of government ninaeaston nation’s capital. She Nazilafathi threats against her. is a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday and Special Report, and She was based in Tehran from 2001 for The New York Times until has provided analysis for numerous other shows, including Meet she left, and during that time she wrote over 2,000 articles for the Press, Face the Nation, This Week and Charlie Rose. She is the the Times. Prior to that, she wrote for Time magazine, Agence author of Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative France-Presse and the Times. She translated a book, History and Ascendancy, which chronicled the rise of modern conservatism. Documentation of Human Rights in Iran, by the Nobel Peace Prize As the Washington deputy bureau chief for , Laureate, Shirin Ebadi, into English in 2001. She has written for she co-authored the book John F. Kerry: A Complete Biography The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Nieman Reports, and helped oversee the paper’s 2004 election coverage. During a and the online publication, openDemocracy. She received her decade-long career at the , Easton’s articles won MA in political science from the University of Toronto in 2001. numerous national awards. Easton serves as co-chair of Fortune’s In 2003 she was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship at annual Most Powerful Women Summit. She is a Phi Beta Kappa Lund University. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010-11. graduate of U.C. Berkeley. Her research project at the Shorenstein Fathi’s project at the Shorenstein Center, as part of a book on Iran, Center will examine how Americans’ view of the rich is affected will trace the influence of satellite television, the Internet and the by growing income inequality. press on Iranian civil society from 1993 to 2003.

DaviD GREENway RoN SuSkiND is is a contributing the A.M. Rosenthal columnist for Writer-in-Residence. The Boston Globe, One of the country’s The International most celebrated Herald Tribune and non-fiction writers, GlobalPost. He was Suskind was The Wall the editorial page Street Journal’s senior editor of The Boston national affairs writer davidgreenway Globe, and before that ronsuskind from 1993 to 2000, its national editor, and foreign editor tasked with setting up the where he won the for Feature Writing and wrote A Globe’s foreign news bureaus. As a foreign correspondent for The Hope in the Unseen, a critically acclaimed 1998 bestseller which Washington Post, he was posted to Jerusalem, Saigon and Hong followed inner-city honor students in their struggles to learn and Kong; and for Time magazine, London, Washington, Saigon, survive. He has since written four New York Times bestsellers: The Bangkok, Hong Kong and the United Nations. He has reported Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World, from 96 countries, and covered conflicts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and his most recent book Confidence Men, which revealed the Bangladesh, Lebanon, Israel, , the former Yugoslavia, Burma, internal struggles of the Obama White House in responding to the Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. He served in the U.S. Navy, and nation’s economic collapse. He currently contributes to The New was educated at Yale and Oxford. Greenway was a Nieman Fellow York Times Magazine and Esquire and is a frequent commentator at Harvard in 1971. In 2009 he was awarded the Edward Weintal for the electronic media. As the Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence, Prize for Diplomatic Reporting from Georgetown’s Institute he conducted four workshops for students about the process for the Study of Diplomacy. He will be researching the conflict of reporting and writing entitled, “Truth and Consequences: between governments and the press over keeping secrets. Crafting Powerful Narratives in the Age of Message.”

Photography by Martha Stewart.

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Amendment at the sifry Public Policy. Since Kennedy School and 2004, he has been a Visiting Professor at co-founder, editor Harvard Law School. and curator of the She is a professor Personal Democracy at Cardozo Law School in and a columnist for Forum (PdF), a website and annual conference that covers the Bloomberg View. She served as Special Assistant to the President ways technology is changing politics. He is also the editor of for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and TechPresident.com, PdF’s award-winning on how politicians co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama are using the web and how the web is using them. TechPresident administrations. Ms. Crawford was formerly a professor at the received the 2007 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in University of Michigan Law School. She is one of Fast Company’s Journalism. Sifry has been a senior technology adviser to the Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); an IP3 Awardee Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006. He also joined (2010); and one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Ten Brains of the the board of directors of Consumers Union in October 2010. He Digital Future (2011). Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. is the author or editor of six books, most recently WikiLeaks and from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond the Age of Transparency. He is the former associate editor of The J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Nation magazine. Sifry graduated from Princeton University with New York. In 2012 Yale University Press will publish her book a B.A. in politics in 1983 and received an M.A. in politics from about the crisis in American communications. She is teaching a New York University in 1989. He is teaching “The Politics of the Kennedy School course entitled “Solving Problems Using Digital Internet” at the Kennedy School. Technology.”

Spring 2012 Courses Digital Communications Media/Politics

digital Media/Politics

Advanced Digital Studies in Politics, Policy and Media Press, Politics, and Public Policy nICCo Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy alex S. JoneS, Shorenstein Center Director; Laurence M. The Politics of the Internet Lombard Lecturer on the Press and Public Policy MICah SIfry, Visiting Murrow Lecturer Seminar: Democracy, Politics and Institutions (full year) Solving Problems Using Digital Technology Political Institutions and Public Policy: American Politics SuSan Crawford, Visiting Stanton Professor ThoMaS e. PaTTerSon, Bradlee Professor of Government and Vision and Information Policy: Considering the Public Interest the Press nolan BowIe, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Political Institutions and Public Policy: American Politics MaTThew BauM, Kalb Professor of Global Communication Communications The Media, Energy and Environment: Global Policy and Politics CrISTIne ruSSell, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Advanced Intensive Writing: Columns and Opinion Writing Election Polling and Public Opinion Jeffrey SeglIn, Lecturer in Public Policy PaTrICk MoynIhan, Preceptor in Government (FAS); Assistant The Arts of Communication Director, Program on Survey Research; HKS Adjunct Faculty luCI herMan, Lecturer in Public Policy Challenges of Democratization The Arts of Communication PIPPa norrIS, Paul. F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics TIMoThy MCCarThy, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Presidents, Politics, and Economic Growth: From World War II to Introduction to Writing for Policy and Politics Obama Advanced Intensive Writing for Policy and Politics Religion, Politics, and Public Policy greg harrIS, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy rIChard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy

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“Outsiderness has become Spring Speaker Series a critical part of our political culture...and technology has “The GOP primary “We must be citizens of the afforded newcomers to the couldn’t have Internet, and not just users of the process and genuine outsiders gone better for the Internet.” some very real influence over Democrats.” reBeCCa MaCkInnon the political debate and the MelInda Bernard L. Schwartz Senior fortunes of both parties.” henneBerger Fellow, New America MaTT BaI Political reporter Foundation; co-founder, Chief political correspondent, and blogger, The GlobalVoices Online; former The New York Times Magazine Washington Post Shorenstein Center Fellow “There is a massive shift in geopolitical power from “A development we didn’t anticipate is the entry of hierarchies to citizens and millionaires whose new toy is a presidential campaign, networks of citizens.” and the way that they have managed to, quite publicly, aleC roSS float candidates longer than any political, Darwinian Senior“ Adviser, Innovation in theory would have allowed them to survive.”” the Office of Secretary of State Jeanne CuMMIngS Hillary Clinton Government Team Deputy Editor, Bloomberg News

“Only two percent of the new “The “If you’re a journalist and you really Egyptian Parliament will be impossible will believe in something, you sometimes comprised of women. Two take a while.” have to stick with it against all odds.” percent. That’s shockingly SCoTT rayMond Bonner low by anyone’s standards.” heIferMan Former investigative reporter and lourdeS garCIa- CEO and a foreign correspondent, The New York navarro co-founder, Times and the International Herald Foreign correspondent, NPR Meetup.com Tribune.

Alex Jones, Shorenstein Center Director, “ moderated the discussion. Power Politics in the Age of Google Micah Sifry illustrated the widespread attention that the issue drew. On Janu- ary 18, an Internet “blackout” was called for by activists, and Wikipedia, Google and many other websites participated. In fact, Sifry said, “an estimated 115,000 websites participated in the SOPA blackout.” Susan Crawford emphasized the impor- tance of Internet freedom: “This is the way A digital power play stopped the SoPA and ” democracy is supposed to work,” she said. PIPA legislation. What are the implications? “The Internet is making it easier for people to be heard.” Nicco Mele pointed out the In the aftermath of a stand-off between Alexis ohanian, nicco Mele, Micah Sifry, Susan Crawford, elaine power of online communities: “The Inter- lawmakers and Internet activists over Kamarck and Alex Jones. Photography by Heather McKinnon. net gives small things the ability to destroy proposed legislation to alter online copy- big things,” he said. Sifry concluded that right rules (the Stop Online Piracy Act, Crawford, Visiting Stanton Professor; the SOPA event was a “cultural moment of or SOPA), the Shorenstein Center hosted Micah Sifry, Visiting Murrow Lecturer; discontinuity.” a discussion about the implications of the Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer; Elaine watch the video: www.hks.harvard.edu/ legislation and the pushback from online Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy; and presspol/news_events/archive/2012/ communities. The panel included Susan Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit. sopa_02-09-12.html

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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 Janell SIMS, Communications nanCy PalMer, Executive Director Professor of Practice Emeritus Coordinator (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 MICah SIfry, Visiting Murrow Lecturer Public Policy alISon koMMer, Staff Assistant MargareT weIgel, Web Journalist dICk Cavanagh, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy krISTIna MaSTroPaSqua, Staff John wIhBey, Web Journalist Assistant SuSan Crawford, Visiting Stanton Professor of the First Amendment heaTher MCkInnon, Staff Assistant aSSoCIaTeS JaMeS fleMIng, Financial nICCo Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Administrator Policy Maxine Isaacs, Marion Just, Jonathan Moore, daniel okrent, luCIana herMan, Lecturer in Public PIPPa norrIS, Paul F. McGuire nguyen anh Tuan Policy Lecturer in Comparative Politics edITh holway, Fellows and Programs rIChard Parker, Lecturer in Public Administrator Policy Stay up to date Advisory board with the Hushang Ansary Elizabeth Drew Walter Isaacson Donald S. Rice Shorenstein Center Philip S. Balboni Howard Gardner Marion Just Shirley Lord Rosenthal Lance Bennett Arthur Gelb Bernard Kalb Paul Sagan Ann Blinkhorn Loren Ghiglione Marvin Kalb Douglas Shorenstein Mabel Cabot Doris Graber Rick Kaplan Marissa Shorenstein Richard Cavanagh Roy Hammer Richard Lambert Sen. Alan K. Simpson Philip Cavanaugh Carole Shorenstein Hays Jonathan Moore Richard Tofel John DeLuca Stephen Hess Dan Rather Linda Wertheimer http://www.hks.harvard.edu/ E. J. Dionne Jr. Albert Hunt John S. Reidy presspol/rss/index.html

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