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Spring 2012 celebrating 2525 years Associated Press 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, Adam Goldman, 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 the Guardian’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 Julian Assange 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 Matt Apuzzo 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, Eileen Sullivan Katie Koch. Published on March 13 in the Harvard Gazette. and Anna Schecter. www.shorensteincenter.org JOAN SHORENSTEIN CENTER ON THE PRESS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY 3 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 the New York Times 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 blogs 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 Twitter 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.