Spring 2016

The Shorenstein Center Welcomes Distinguished Reporters and Scholars as Spring 2016 Fellows

BBC, Dan Kennedy, associate professor of journalism, Northeastern University and Marilyn Thompson, deputy editor, POLITICO. They joinBob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democ- racy Fellow, who remains in residence at the Shorenstein Center on a visiting basis throughout the 2016 election season. “We have a remarkably diverse and talented group of fellows for the spring semester,” said Thomas E. Patterson, the Center’s interim director. “They bring journalism and academic expertise to the Center across a broad range of topics. We’ll learn a great deal from having them in our midst.” Shorenstein Center Fellows spend the Shorenstein Center spring 2016 Fellows Joanna Jolly, Dan Kennedy, Johanna Dunaway, Marilyn Thompson (from left) academic semester researching, writing, participating in events and interacting with The Shorenstein Center is delighted to have Johanna Dunaway, associate professor students, faculty and the Harvard commu- its spring 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellows in of communication, Texas A&M, Joanna nity. Complete profiles of the spring 2016 residence: Jolly, South Asia editor and feature writer, fellows are on page 4. AP Wins Goldsmith Prize for "Seafood from Slaves" The Goldsmith Awards supermarkets, restaurants and food sup- Ceremony, held on March 3, pliers, such as Wal-Mart, , Sysco, 2016, recognized six outstand- Nestle, Whole Foods and Red Lobster. ing journalism teams as finalists Continued on page 2. for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The $25,000 prize was awarded to IN THIS ISSUE , Robin McDow- ell, and Goldsmith Awards...... 2 of The Associ- Fellow Profiles...... 4 ated Press for their investigative Recent Publications...... 5 report “Seafood from Slaves.” The uncov- Spring Speaker Series...... 5 ered extensive use of slave labor Remembering Doug Shorenstein...... 6 in the Thai seafood industry, which supplies major U.S.

Robin McDowell, reporter for The Associated Press and one of the winners of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for "Seafood from Slaves" 2 SHORENSTEIN CENTER ON MEDIA, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Goldsmith Awards Honor Journalistic Excellence Continued from page 1. database, special reports and The investigation led to the freeing of multimedia. After the pub- more than 2,000 enslaved fishermen from lication of “The Counted,” , , Cambodia and Laos, the FBI announced at the the jailing of perpetrators, congressional end of 2015 that it would hearings and the proposal of new laws. overhaul its system of count- The U.S. State Department used the series ing killings by police. The as part of its decision to give Thailand the Department of Justice also lowest rating for and has began testing a new program discussed the findings during diplomatic for recording arrest-related talks. deaths, drawing on Guard- “‘Seafood from Slaves’ is investigative ian data. journalism at its best,” said Thomas E. Neela Banerjee, John Patterson, the Shorenstein Center’s interim H. Cushman Jr., David director. “The story was extraordinarily Hasemyer and Lisa Song Robin McDowell accepts the Goldsmith Prize for The Associated Press from Thomas difficult to uncover and its impact on of InsideClimate News Patterson, Shorenstein Center interim director. people’s lives and public policy will last far for “Exxon: The Road Not into the future.” Taken.” InsideClimate News principles or by company-related arbitra- reported that Exxon conducted tors. Bills have since been introduced in climate research decades ago, Congress to prevent these practices. and then, without revealing to Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick shareholders and the public what and Lisa Gartner of it knew about climate change, for “Failure Factories.” The Tampa Bay worked to manufacture doubt Times exposed how the Pinellas County about the scientific consensus that School Board abandoned integration, then its own research had confirmed. deprived black schools in poor neighbor- New York’s attorney general has hoods of resources until they were awash since launched a probe of Exxon. in violence and academic failure, making Other lawmakers around the Pinellas County the most concentrated site country and environmental lead- of academic failure in the state of Florida. ers have also called for investiga- As a result of the series, officials enacted tions of Exxon. reforms including increased funding, Teams from The Guardian US (pictured) and investigated Jessica Silver-Greenberg, improved teacher training and the conver- police shootings, spurring change at the FBI. Michael Corkery and Robert sion of three of the affected schools into Gebeloff of magnets. Launched in 1991, the Goldsmith Prize for “Beware the Fine Print.” for Investigative Reporting honors journal- The New York Times inves- ism which promotes more effective and tigated clauses in numerous ethical conduct of government, the making consumer and employee of public policy, or the practice of politics contracts and reported that by disclosing excessive secrecy, impropri- they deprive Americans of ety and mismanagement. their ability to sue, insulat- The five finalists for the Goldsmith Prize ing companies whose busi- for Investigative Reporting were: ness practices are deceitful Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles or illegal. The Times revealed Lartey, Ciara McCarthy and the interac- how a coalition of credit tive team staff of The Guardian US for card companies and retail- “The Counted.” The Guardian docu- ers enshrined class-action mented the number of people killed by bans in contracts. They also police in the U.S., telling the stories of reported that some com- who they were, and establishing the hid- panies require disputes be Walter Isaacson received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism den trends in how they died, through a settled according to biblical and delivered the keynote address, "Technology and Journalism."

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which spurred H. de Vreese for Political Journalism in the agency to take Comparative Perspective. action to enact bet- The Goldsmith Book Prize for best ter federal record- trade book was awarded to Harold Holzer keeping. The FBI’s for Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The new approach will War for Public Opinion. reflect that of the The Goldsmith Career Award for Excel- Post’s, capturing lence in Journalism was awarded to Walter shootings and Isaacson, former chairman of CNN, for- violent incidents in mer editor of TIME, president and CEO of real time and log- the Aspen Institute, and author of bestsell- ging many of the ing books on Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein same details. and Benjamin Franklin. The Goldsmith The Goldsmith Awards Program is Book Prize is funded by an annual grant from the Gold- The conversation continued the following morning at the Goldsmith Seminar, where awarded to the smith Fund of the Greenfield Foundation. the winner and finalists discussed the making of their stories. academic and trade books The Washington Post staff for “Fatal that best fulfill the objec- Watch the videos online: Shooting by Police.” The Washington tive of improving democratic governance • shorensteincenter.org/goldsmith- Post launched an effort to tally every fatal through an examination of the intersection awards-2016 shooting in the U.S. by an on-duty police between the media, politics and public officer in 2015. Their database chronicled policy. • shorensteincenter.org/goldsmith- shootings in real time, using news reports The Goldsmith Book Prize for best aca- seminar-2016 and other public sources – compiling a demic book was awarded to Erik Albæk, record more extensive than that of the FBI, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril and Claes

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THEODORE H. WHITE LECTURE ON PRESS AND POLITICS The Press and the Polls Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper SALANT LECTURE ’41 Professor of American History at Free Expression: An Endangered Species Harvard University and staff writer on Campus? for The New Yorker, delivered the 26th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Press and Politics. The David Nyhan Harlan II Professor of Law at New Prize for Political Journalism was York Law School and former ACLU awarded to Gary Younge, columnist president, delivered the eighth for The Guardian. annual Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press, on October 19, 2015. She Watch the video: expressed concerns that the over- shorensteincenter.org/theodore-h- regulation of sexual expression on white-lecture-2015

@ShorensteinCtr 4 SHORENSTEIN CENTER ON MEDIA, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Joan Shorenstein Fellows, Spring 2016

JOHANNA DUNAWAY is a JOANNA JOLLY is the BBC’s newly appointed associate pro- South Asia editor, and was also fessor of communication at recently assigned to the BBC's Texas A&M University. She was Washington bureau as a feature on the faculty of Louisiana State reporter. Over the past decade she University from 2008 to 2015. has worked as a radio producer Over the course of her career she in London, Brussels and Jerusa- has written extensively on the lem. Jolly has also spent several relationship between the struc- years based in South Asia, first tural and contextual features of as the regional producer in Delhi media outlets and news content. and later as the BBC cor- Her current research examines the impact of the changing con- respondent. Jolly specializes in radio documentaries and long- temporary media environment across individuals, groups, and form journalism. She won the 2015 Amnesty International Award local communities. While at the Shorenstein Center, Dunaway (radio) for the BBC documentary “Red River Woman.” While at will write about Latino voters through the lens of the changing the Shorenstein Center, Jolly will explore how media campaigns media environment. around sexual violence shape public policy.

DAN KENNEDY is an associate MARILYN THOMPSON is a professor of journalism at North- deputy editor at POLITICO, eastern University who writes working to expand investiga- for the Nieman Journalism Lab, tive reporting capacities. Prior to WGBHNews.org and various her role at POLITICO she served other publications. His book as Washington bureau chief for The Wired City: Reimagining Reuters and as national editor for Journalism and Civic Life in the The Washington Post. She left the Post-Newspaper Age examines Post in 2003 to serve as editor and online local and regional jour- vice president of the Lexington nalism. Kennedy is also a former Herald-Leader, later returning to online columnist for The Guardian and was the media column- Washington as deputy bureau chief of the Times. In ist for The Boston Phoenix. His blog, Media Nation, covers issues addition to her career as an editor, Thompson has also worked as related to journalism, politics and culture. While at the a reporter for the , The Washington Post, and Shorenstein Center, Kennedy will write about strategies that The New York Times. While at the Shorenstein Center, Thompson could change the fortunes of the declining newspaper business. will examine money, politics and the press in 2016. Walter Shorenstein Media & Democracy Fellow BOB SCHIEFFER has been a reporter for more than half a century and was a part of CBS News for 46 years. He is one of the few reporters in Washington to have covered all four of the major beats: the Pentagon, the White House, Congress and the State Department. Schieffer anchored the Saturday edi- tion of the “CBS Evening News” for 23 years, became the network’s chief Washington correspondent in 1982 and was named the anchor and moderator of “Face the Nation” in 1991. Within these roles he has interviewed every president since Richard Nixon and moderated three presidential debates. Through- out his career Schieffer has written four books, won numerous awards and covered every presidential race and nominating convention since 1972. He will be in residence at the Shorenstein Center on a vis- iting basis for three semesters, throughout the 2016 election season. During his time on campus Schieffer will meet with students and faculty, speak at various events for the Harvard community and participate in Shorenstein Center activities.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS shorensteincenter.org/research-publications/papers DAVID ENSOR MARIE SANZ MICHAEL Exporting the The Persistent IGNATIEFF First Amendment: Advocate: The The United States Strengthening New York Times’ and the Syrian U.S. Soft Editorials and the Refugee Crisis: A Power through Normalization of Plan of Action Journalism U.S. Ties with Cuba

David Ensor, former director of the Marie Sanz, senior correspondent for A white paper by Michael Ignatieff, Voice of America, makes the case for Agence France Presse, examines The Edward R. Murrow Professor of protecting and strengthening VOA as New York Times’ editorials on U.S.-Cuba Press, Politics and Public Policy at an independent journalistic voice in relations over the past five decades, and the Shorenstein Center, and Harvard order to increase American soft power. the role of the press in the restoration students, argues that it is in America’s Ensor argues that VOA is a valuable of relations between the two countries. national interest to help Europe manage national security asset and could do Since 1961, The New York Times editorial and overcome the refugee crisis by more for the U.S. if given additional board consistently opposed the break lending strong political support to resources. The way forward, Ensor in U.S.-Cuba relations. Sanz covers the its major European allies, particularly writes, is to continue to build the trust Times' positions on key events during Germany, and by re-asserting its of international audiences by providing each presidential administration, Fidel leadership role in refugee resettlement honest coverage and partnering Castro’s relationship with the media, and integration. The paper proposes with local media – rather than simply how U.S. public opinion toward Cuba a detailed plan of action that renews advocating for U.S. policies. Ensor also changed over time, and the secret American leadership and supports compares VOA to other state-sponsored talks between the U.S. and Cuba that Europe while strengthening the media, such as the BBC World Service, led to the normalization of relations in national security of the United States. CCTV, Al Jazeera and Russia Today. December 2014.

"The Iowa "Spotlight on “Election Caucuses, the Investigative 2016: Is There New Hampshire Reporting" Enough Quality Primaries and WALTER V. Campaign Beyond" ROBINSON, Coverage?" BOB SCHIEFFER, Boston Globe JILL Walter editor at large ABRAMSON, Shorenstein former New Media & Democracy Fellow York Times executive editor

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Douglas W. Shorenstein, 1955-2015

stein graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA, and from the Hastings College of the Law with a JD. In 2011, Shorenstein was inducted into the Bay Area Coun- cil’s Business Hall of Fame, which recognizes the extraordinary achievements of individuals and families who have advanced San Francisco Bay Area–based businesses to positions of national and international prominence and who have enriched the civic life of the community. He was also a past chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a board member of the Environmental Defense Fund, a member of the executive council of the UCSF Medical Center and co-chair of the Shorenstein Center’s advisory board. The Shorenstein Center was founded in 1986 with a major gift from Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein. Their daughter Joan Shorenstein Barone, Doug Shorenstein’s sister, was a prominent political reporter and producer at CBS News who died of breast cancer in 1985. The Shorenstein family has been actively sup- Doug Shorenstein. Photo by Richard Seagraves. porting the work of the Shorenstein Center for the past three decades. Douglas Shorenstein, a longtime supporter of the Shorenstein In 2013, Douglas Shorenstein and his wife, Lydia, established Center, died of cancer on November 24, 2015. He had a vision the Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellowship for the center that was realized through his ideas and generosity. through a generous gift to the school. The fellowship brings In his passing, the Center and the Harvard Kennedy School high-profile figures at the forefront of media, politics and public have lost a great friend, adviser and benefactor. policy to the Shorenstein Center to work with students, faculty, Shorenstein was the leader of one of San Francisco’s most scholars and the public on important issues of the moment. The prominent real estate development families. He transformed fellows spend varying periods of time at Harvard and focus on Shorenstein Properties from a local developer to a national real important policy areas. Bob Schieffer, former moderator of Face estate group that invested in projects in 24 markets across the the Nation and longtime anchor and reporter for CBS News, is country, including Chicago’s John Hancock Tower and New the current Walter Shorenstein Fellow. York’s Park Avenue Tower. He joined the family business in 1983 Douglas Shorenstein is survived by his wife, Lydia; his chil- and became chairman and chief executive officer in 1995. Prior dren, Brandon, Sandra, and Danielle Shorenstein; and his sister to joining Shorenstein, he worked as a real estate attorney with Carole Shorenstein Hays. the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York. Shoren-

Danielle, Lydia and Doug Shorenstein at the 2011 Goldsmith Awards Doug Shorenstein and former Harvard Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood

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Faculty and Staff

THOMAS E. PATTERSON, Interim Director and Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Advisory Board NANCY PALMER, Executive Director TIM BAILEY, Events Manager MEMBERS MATTHEW BAUM, Kalb Professor of Global Communications Ambassador Hushang Ansary LISA CROSSMAN, Financial Manager Philip S. Balboni MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Richard Cavanagh Politics and Public Policy Michael C. Hill MAXINE ISAACS, Associate Jonathan Karush STEVE JARDING, Lecturer in Public Policy Kevin Klose MARION JUST, Associate MARVIN KALB, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice Nicco Mele Emeritus (Washington) Matthias Chika Mordi KRISTINA MASTROPASQUA, Faculty and Program Assistant William J. Poorvu LESLIE MACMILLAN, Research Reporter/Editor, Journalist’s Shirley Lord Rosenthal Resource Cristine Russell NILAGIA MCCOY, Communications Manager Paul Sagan KATIE MILES, Fellows Program Manager JONATHAN MOORE, Associate Saul Skoler PIPPA NORRIS, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics DAN OKRENT, Associate HONORARY MEMBERS DENISE-MARIE ORDWAY, Research Reporter/Editor, Journalist’s Marvin Kalb Resource U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson RICHARD PARKER, Lecturer in Public Policy NICK SINAI, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy BRANDON WARD, Faculty Assistant JOHN WIHBEY, Consultant, Journalist’s Resource

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