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Spring 2011 Press|Politics Sun Reporters Win Goldsmith Prize Wins he $25,000 Goldsmith Prize presentation of their findings investigative journalism with Career Award Tfor Investigative Reporting has resulted in consumers having imaginative and elegant been awarded to Marshall Allen access to quality-of-care data multimedia representation. and Alex Richards of the Las that will help them make more It is the future of news,” said Vegas Sun for their investigative informed decisions. Alex S. Jones, director of the report “Do No Harm: Hospital Shorenstein Center. Care in Las Vegas.” “This extraordinary piece of work demonstrates the Launched in 1991, the Goldsmith After a two-year investigation, power of teaming high quality Prize for Investigative Reporting including the review honors journalism of 2.9 million records, which promotes the Sun’s five-part more effective and multi-platform ethical conduct of series identified government, the Frank Rich, former New York the preventable making of public Times columnist, received the infections and policy, or the Goldsmith Career Award for injuries taking practice of politics Excellence in Journalism. place in Las Vegas by disclosing hospitals. Allen excessive secrecy, and Richards set impropriety and out to impose mismanagement. in this issue transparency on Salant Lecture, p. 3 Las Vegas hospitals Brian Greenspun (left), so they would be Alex S. Jones, Alex Richards Spring Fellows, p. 4 held accountable. and Marshall Allen. Photography by Martha Charles Gibson Study The multimedia Stewart. Group, p. 5 WikiLeaks Executive Session, p. 6 Rachel Maddow Delivers 21st Speaker Series, p. 7 Annual Theodore H. White Lecture

Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Mad- dow Show, gave the 2010 T.H. White Lecture on Press and Politics to a packed Forum on a crisp November evening.

In her lecture, Maddow described the current political situation in the as a consequence of a system that has “made a market in electioneering that has nothing to do with taking office. We have decoupled the process from the responsibility. And we are making a killing doing it.” Read more on page 2. executive speaks at HKS. See page 5. PRESS | POLITICS The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy T.H. White Lecturer Rachel Maddow Discusses the Impact of Opinion-Driven Media

protect us. We are not fragile. It is to protect politics....

...The press may now approximate what it is to run for office, but we approximate very, very poorly what it is to hold office. The conflation of those two things is good for TV. It is not necessarily bad for journalism....But I do think it’s bad for governance. Whether or not you believe that the mainstream press is slowly evaporating probably depends on how you feel about the word mainstream. It may also depend on whether or not you used to have a job in the old media and whether or not that job still exists.

Lamenting changes in the media is a little bit like lamenting changes in kids these days and that horrible modern music. The complaint is not much different than it was in the 1950’s and the pace of change is not Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones with T.H. White Lecturer The thing to worry about, because of that much affected by the lamentation. Missing Rachel Maddow. Photography by Martha Stewart. decision we have made, is what it does the unsustainable things that we feel moony n November 14, Rachel Maddow, host of to governing. There is a reason people in about in journalism but we’ve lost at this OThe Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, opinion driven news flirt with running for point is academic. Bad setting to make that delivered the 21st annual Theodore H. White claim, I know. But Lecture on Press and Politics at the John F. “The problem in turning politics into frankly the press Kennedy Jr. Forum. did not disappear. profitable and high-profile TV news right The press did not To watch the video of the Lecture, listen to now is not what it does to TV, not what it evaporate. The the audio recording or read the full tran- press changed. And script, visit the Shorenstien Center’s website does to journalism, not what it does to it is still changing. (www.shorensteincenter.org). An excerpt news, it is what it does to politics.” So far what it has from the Lecture follows: changed into is both office. It gives you a ratings spike. Duh. There dangerous and creative. It is both smart and The media in my view is going to be fine. is a reason though that people flirt with it but more than occasionally stupefying. It makes Journalism is going to be fine. The news don’t do it. There is a reason why the version people hate the press broadly and it also is going to be fine. The problem in turning of electioneering done for TV purposes, in my makes people find their heroes among the politics into profitable and high-profile TV view, should be divorced from actual fund- press. It is not brave, this new world, but it news right now is not what it does to TV, not raising and political donations. It is not to is new. what it does to journalism, not what it does to news, it is what it does to politics. When we made a market for mortgages that had nothing to do with houses the result was not good for houses. The result was not good for the baseline American need to keep people in houses. When we made a market for electioneering that had nothing to do with taking office, the thing to worry about that is taking office.

2 www.shorensteincenter.org The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy PRESS | POLITICS Post’s Marcus Brauchli Delivers 2010 Richard S. Salant Lecture n reflecting on today’s media world, 2010 Brauchli observed, but he insisted that the ISalant Lecturer Marcus Brauchli looked “oceans of information” on the Internet favor back to the roots of the organization he “islands of clarity” such as The Post. leads, . Founded in 1877, it was just one in a universe of left- and Before joining The Post, Mr. Brauchli was right-leaning publications. Now, Brauchli managing editor of , said, “we are once again on a frontier.” with responsibility for its newsrooms and editions in the United States and internation- As executive editor of The Post, Brauchli ally, in print and online. He also had editorial is directing the integration of its print and responsibility for MarketWatch, the financial- online newsrooms. “All of us today are part news website. He was appointed managing Marcus Brauchli delivers the third annual Richard S. Salant Lecture. of a digital ecosystem,” he said, noting that editor in April 2007 and resigned one year Photography by Martha Stewart. today stories can originate from a blog or later, after News Corp. acquired the Jour- national editor during the 2000 election, sites such as WikiLeaks as easily as they nal’s parent company, Dow Jones & Co. Mr. the corporate scandals of that era, and the can from mainstream news organizations. Brauchli spent 15 years as a correspondent in Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Journal’s “There’s a lot not to love about new media,” Asia and Europe. He served as the Journal’s coverage of which won a . T.H. White Seminar Explores Political, Media Changes he 2010 Theodore H. White Seminar on media and politics: “We are literally in a time TPress and Politics took place the morning when Americans are re-inventing how they after Rachel Maddow’s T.H. White Lecture. communicate with each other.” Milligan was The seminar panelists were Mindy Finn, GOP less hopeful: The dysfunction in Washington online political consultant; Charles Gibson, is “bad for democracy,” she said, something former ABC News anchor and Reidy Fellow that is “made worse by the media, which just at the Shorenstein Center; William Greider, focuses on the constant campaign.” For Gib- national affairs correspondent for son, the current media landscape was new, William Greider and recipient of the 2010 Nyhan Prize; but it wasn’t eternal: “The half-life of cable David King, Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy news is very short,” he said, envisioning a Receives David School; and Susan Milligan, former Boston coming world “where there are effectively an Globe reporter and current IOP Fellow. The infinite number of voices.” Nyhan Prize discussion was moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. Preceding the T.H. White Lecture on November 14, the 2010 David Nyhan To begin the discussion, Jones asked panel- Prize for Political Journalism was given ists to reflect on some of the issues raised to William Greider, national affairs cor- by Maddow in her T.H. White Lecture. King respondent for The Nation. In introduc- focused on the rise of the Tea Party, which ing Greider, Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein he felt wasn’t strictly an Internet-driven Center director, said that “despite phenomenon. “New media alone doesn’t do his critical perspective, Bill Greider anything,” he said. “Mobilization still takes has also maintained an endearing place person to person.” Greider agreed, optimism, something very much in the but saw promise in the current tumult in David Nyhan tradition.” David King and Charles Gibson (right) at the T.H. White Seminar. Photography by Martha Stewart.

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New Spring Fellows at the Shorenstein Center

, Senior bob calo , Lecturer at the Graduate School alexis gelber Goldsmith Fellow, supervised of Journalism at UC Berkeley, award-winning coverage of co-directs the video storytell- politics, social issues and ing and reporting program and international news as is the executive editor of Rich- magazine’s national affairs mond Confidential, one of three editor, assistant managing hyper-local news sites run by the editor and the managing editor school. Calo was a broadcast pro- of Newsweek International. ducer for NBC News in New York, As Director of Special Projects a producer for the ABC News from 2001 to 2008, she created program Prime Time Live and a special issues and new entrepreneurial projects. In 2004 and 2008 news and documentary producer at KQED-TV in . In Gelber edited Newsweek’s special presidential election project. 2008, he served as national coordinator for News21, the 12-univer- Both projects were published by Public Affairs, and the 2004 sity collaboration for innovative digital journalism sponsored by project won a National Magazine Award. In 2009, Gelber served as the Knight Foundation and Carnegie Corporation. He is currently the founding books editor of . She is an editorial the senior producer for Sound Tracks, a PBS series in development consultant based in Washington, DC and New York, where she is an about the intersection of music, culture and politics. His project adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her at the Shorenstein Center will look at cultural, political and demo- research will focus on women politicians in the new media age of graphic roots of news audience disengagement and mistrust. social networking and cable TV.

wajahat s. khan neil lewis, Goldsmith is a journalist who works for Fellow, was a correspondent Newsweek Pakistan and Aaj TV. with from He began his work in journalism 1985 until his retirement in 2009. as a reporter and editorial writer Before joining The Times, he for the University of Michigan worked for news agency student , The Michi- in Washington, London and gan Daily. He eventually became Johannesburg. He was Reuters’ a war correspondent and pho- White House correspondent and tographer covering post–9/11 served as senior correspondent Afghanistan and Pakistan for the in South Africa in the early 1980s. college daily. Khan returned to His work has appeared in several Pakistan to report for the English-based daily, The Dawn, as well magazines including , Washington Monthly, Roll- as its monthly, The Herald. Khan has worked for the country’s top ing Stone and The New York Times Book Review. He is co-author of TV networks — Geo, Dawn and Aaj — as a producer, editor, anchor the book, Betrayal: The Story of , an American Spy. and documentarian. Khan is investigating the Pakistani media’s Mr. Lewis was most recently a general assignment and investiga- shifting editorial stance on the , its inherent and engi- tive correspondent in the Washington bureau of The Times. He neered structural/systemic biases, and the role of external groups teaches media law at Duke Law School. His research will focus on like the military and the intelligence services in providing “optics” the American Jewish community and Israel, exploring lobbies, loy- for coverage of the restive combat zones of the country. alties and their influence on the press.

sandy rowe is the Knight Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She was editor of in Portland from 1993 until January 2010. In 2010, the American Society of Newspaper Editors awarded Rowe its National Leadership Award. Rowe chairs the Board of Visitors of The Knight Fellowships at and is a board member of the Committee to Protect Jour- nalists based in New York. She is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. From 1984 until April 1993, Rowe was executive editor and vice president of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is researching the local case for partner- ships and collaboration in investigative reporting. Rowe’s year-long fellowship is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Photography by Martha Stewart.

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The group met weekly and Study Group with traveled to . “The most remarkable Charlie Gibson thing about this experi- ence was the access we all 2010 Fellow Charlie Gibson led a got to people who know FShorenstein Center Study Group entitled, politics from the inside “Causes and Effects of Party Polarization on out,” said Melissa Galvez, American Politics.” Gibson’s research assis- tant who participated in “Polls show most Americans are moderate the study group. “First in their political views and want compromise and foremost we learned and results from their representatives in from Charlie, whose vast Washington, DC, and in state and local experience as a reporter government,” said Gibson, former ABC News and researcher gave us Harvard students in Charlie Gibson’s study group during the Fall semester. anchor. “Instead they get incivility, vitriol, insights into how politics and intransigence.” Gibson started the study and the media have changed over time. But dous amount of knowledge and experience group to look at the possible causes of politi- Charlie also generously arranged for us to within the group, from people who had been cal polarization: “redistricting, geographic speak with some giants in the field—we in the military, run for office, or worked in mobility leading to political homogene- had a close conversation George Stephano- the production side of media. Everyone was ity, party extremism, the media, negative polous, got to pick David King’s brain, and passionate about discussing polarization in advertising, and institutional change in the asked about the future of politics, and brought unique perspectives to Congress itself.” news television. But there was also a tremen- our conversations.”

 Elliot Schrage and Alex S. Jones. Facebook Execs Share Insight at HKS  David Gergen and Sheryl Sandberg. Adapted from an article by Patrick McKiernan, data from the Open Net Initiative. Photography by Center for Public Leadership. Syria, Schrage pointed out, which Tom Fitzsimmons. had banned the site, recently lifted Facebook executives Sheryl Sandberg its filter. and Elliot Schrage attracted nearly 200 Kennedy School students to an early- Sandberg was quick to note that Face- morning discussion on how social media book’s role in such sensitive international is transforming political organizing, the affairs is to provide a secure place for right to free speech, and corporate social people to share, while being mindful of the responsibility. The event was sponsored by laws of each country in which it operates. the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) and “[Facebook] does not—and should not— the Shorenstein Center. CPL Director David have a foreign policy,” added Schrage. Gergen and Shorenstein Center Director “The purpose of social media is not to Alex S. Jones served as co-moderators. create revolutions but to enlarge a public tion in leadership positions throughout all space that didn’t exist before. Ninety-nine sectors. More women need to “sit at the Sandberg and Schrage joined Facebook percent of the time, this is not threaten- table...both literally and figuratively,” she from where Sandberg saw the goal ing to governments. ...By expanding that said. However, until a more equitable divi- as “indexing the world’s information,” as sphere you increase discourse on democ- sion of domestic responsibilities occurs, opposed to Facebook where “technology racy and accountability.” “To the extent “we are not on track for the situation to be was going to empower us as individu- that we have a point of view,” Sandberg any better for my children’s generation.” It als.” Facebook now boasts more than 500 continued, “we are for individual voice. We is important to help young women develop million active users. Some governments want individuals to be able to connect and the confidence to put themselves forward around the world have reacted to the share anywhere in the world.” when leadership opportunities arise, power of its platform: Facebook has been Sandberg continued. Otherwise, “If you intermittently or permanently blocked in Sandberg ended her remarks by reiterating don’t think you deserve the credit for what countries such as Iran, Pakistan, , a message she shared at last year’s TED got accomplished, how do you raise your Bangladesh, and North Korea, according to conference: women’s underrepresenta- hand and keep it up?”

www.shorensteincenter.org 5 PRESS | POLITICS The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Executive Session Examines the Impact of WikiLeaks t an executive session sponsored by the build the molecules all along. From a techni- tional Relations at the Kennedy School and AShorenstein Center, a group of journal- cal standpoint, it wasn’t that surprising.” former U.S. Ambassador to Greece and NATO, ists, academics and media professionals responded: “Diplomacy among governments gathered to discuss the impact of WikiLeaks. To defend The New York Times’s publica- is built on trust among diplomats. Among Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones tion of material received from WikiLeaks, people. Among human beings. And that’s moderated the conversation. David Sanger, chief one good reason why Washington cor- “In a single blow...just we classify cables... Jonathan Zittrain, Professor at Harvard respondent at The because we can’t violate Law School and , Times, pointed out one person could change the trust of other people and co-founder of the Berkman Center for that “it is not as if we things, even though to whom we speak. And Internet and Society, observed that with the were simply writing if we violate that trust, revolution in Egypt and the publication of from individual docu- all of the atoms had then we engage in an material from WikiLeaks, “this has been an ments that WikiLeaks been there to build the exercise of negating extremely busy and watershed six months was doling out. The our own values, and for those of us who think about the Internet.” editorial decisions molecules all along.” negating our own objec- The WikiLeaks situation, he said, echoes about what was tives. So, preserving the the invention of Napster: “In a single blow... important...what was harmful to publish and integrity of discussions is really important to just one person could change things, even what was not, were entirely ours.” Nicholas the basic fabric of what diplomacy is.” though all of the atoms had been there to Burns, Professor of the Practice of Interna-

Micah Sifry and Shorenstein Center Fellow Sandy Rowe. Jonathan Zittrain. Nicholas Burns. Alex S. Jones (left) with Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Susan Crawford. Photography by Martha Stewart. News21 Internship Recipients Melissa Galvez | Mattea Kramer | Anne Mathews | Hely Olivares

Journalism schools at eight universities are designing innovative, hands-on journalism study and practice programs. The Harvard students will join the internship team in the summer. The student news products will be experimental in substance and style. Both mainstream and emerging news organizations are the target outlets.

Digital Workshops Policy Impact? Get Going with Your Online Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age Data Strategy! Allison Fine, writer and activist. for Students Chris Wolz, president and CEO, Forum Moderated by Aarti Shahani, MPP2. Download the videos from the One, Internet strategy and innovative Shorenstein Center website website development company. With Great Power Comes Great Moderated by Philipp Schrögel, MPP2. Responsibility: Utilizing Games for Social Social Activism for Global Change: Using Change social media to build social movements A Modest Proposition: Better Data Helps Asi Burak, co-president, Games for Wivina Belmonte, Deputy Director of Jim St. George, managing partner of Change. Communications at UNICEF. NGP VAN, Inc. Moderated by Yishay Sorek, MPA-MC and Moderated by Irene Hu, MPP2. Moderated by Carolyn McGourty, MPP2. Wexner Fellow.

6 www.shorensteincenter.org The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy PRESS | POLITICS Shorenstein Center Speaker Series Looks at Nuclear Power, Press Freedom and Online News David Sanger, Simon noted. One is that “Pakistan was the However, the brands of established news chief Washington world’s most deadly country for the press organizations “matter more today” than they correspondent for last year.” However, Simon pointed out, have before because “in a world where there The New York Times, “most of the journalists killed in Pakistan are a thousand voices, you have to know who defended the Times’s were victims of suicide attacks in which they to trust,” he said. decision to publish were not the direct targets.” material from the donna byrd, WikiLeaks cables. Otto Santa Ana, publisher of The Sanger said he would an associate profes- Root, shared her “hardly argue that WikiLeaks was the cause sor in the Depart- experience in grow- of the uprisings” in the Middle East, “but it ment of Chicana and ing and engaging an may have been one of the triggering events.” Chicano Studies at online community. The Times initially received the cables from UCLA, spoke about Providing new , which with the German paper the “covert power of content several times Der Spiegel, decided to publish “as a team,” political humor and a day is essential in Sanger explained. All three papers reviewed mock journalism.” increasing traffic to the site, she observed. the information and “decided what was In particular, he examined the roles of Jon Social media tools, such as Facebook and newsworthy,” he said. Stewart, and Jay Leno in , are “critical parts of growing commu- political comedic discourse. A sociolinguist nities online,” she said, because they share Ellen Miller, co- and critical discourse analyst, Santa Ana the news and commentary from the site with founder and execu- observed that laughter is a “human practice a community. have also proven to tive director of the that brings us closer together.” However, be very popular and a way to drive traffic. In Sunlight Foundation, political humor aimed at a large audience is addition, Byrd emphasized the importance of spoke about “Tools more complex: “In the guise of lighthearted SEO (search engine optimization): “It’s by far for Democracy: Infor- entertainment, mass media comedy actually the most important thing about a website.” mation for the Body configures — formally, conceptually — dis- Politic.” In introduc- criminatory hierarchies, and worse still, it “In the Shadow of ing Miller, Alex S. facilitates the spread of ignorance,” he said. the Japan Crisis: The Jones described the Sunlight Foundation Seesaw Coverage as “one of those journalistic enterprises… The Shorenstein of Nuclear Power,” that you can think of genuinely as moral in Center welcomed was part of the their creation, in their concept and in their Jeff Zucker, Clean Energy and execution over time.” The Sunlight Founda- former president and the Media series tion “has been designed to use the power of CEO of NBC Univer- cosponsored by the the Internet and new technology to catalyze sal, to a conversation Belfer Center and the greater government openness and transpar- with Alex S. Jones. Shorenstein Center and organized by Cristine ency,” Miller explained, “and it provides With the recent Russell. ABC News science correspondent tools so that anyone can have access to that announcement of Ned Potter compared television report- information.” AOL’s acquisition of the Huffington Post, the ing of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear discussion centered around the future of disaster to the current crisis in Japan, saying Joel Simon, news in online and television formats. Zucker that while television provides less informa- executive director said that for those who believe that news has tion than print “what does last is the impres- of the Committee to a successful future online, the merger is “an sion, the image.” Matthew L. Wald, Protect Journalists important step forward.” Zucker revealed national energy reporter for The New York (CPJ), looked at the that NBC had tried to buy the Huffington Times and one of the paper’s principal past year in press Post, but had not been able to negotiate a reporters on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, freedom. He focused price. Drawing a distinction between online was critical of some of the media coverage of on CPJ’s recent pub- news outlets and social media sites, Zucker the nuclear crisis as sometimes overly sim- lication of Attacks assured the audience that “journalism will plified or incorrect, in part because some of on the Press, a worldwide survey of the matter in the future.” The danger with social the reporters involved are “over their heads” mistreatment of journalists in 2010. In the media, Zucker warned, is that “people think in terms of the technical side of the nuclear survey, the CPJ discovered several trends, they are journalists because they can Tweet.” disaster. From an article by Joseph Leahy.

www.shorensteincenter.org 7 PRESS | POLITICS The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Goldsmith Seminar Looks at the Future of Reporting organizations. Gottlieb said that after the ’ report on the city of Bell, advertisers were eager to support the newspaper. However, Eisinger and Bernstein described investigative reports as the “peas and carrots” that are necessary but not popular among readers, and so should be funded by a nonprofit organization. Sul- livan stated that NPR is in “the fight of [its] life right now,” uneasy about the future of federal funding for public radio.

Laura Sullivan of NPR speaks at the Goldsmith Seminar. Photography by n the morning after the Goldsmith Awards Martha Stewart. Ceremony, the winners and finalists of the O enced in the series, and new rules are being Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting implemented from the financial reform bill. gathered to discuss the stories behind the stories: the dedication, work and hard ques- In “Sponsored Bills in Sacramento: How tions that went into each investigation. Our Laws Are Really Made,” Karen de Sá of Danielle, Lydia and Doug Shorenstein at the Goldsmith Awards. Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives of The the San Jose Mercury News provided the Los Angeles Times explained how their first comprehensive examination of the investigation,“Breach of Faith,” exposed influences of outside interests in California widespread corruption in the tiny city of lawmaking. As a result of her investigation, Bell, leading to multiple investigations, legislative leaders proposed rule changes, eight arrests, multimillion-dollar refunds for and outside groups are pushing for manda- taxpayers and greater transparency about tory disclosure of all meetings between law- government salaries across California. makers and lobbyists and greater disclosure of campaign contributions from sponsors. In their three-part series, “Behind the Bail There is also a ballot measure to repeal the Bond System,” National Public Radio’s Laura term-limit law. Sullivan and Steven Drummond illuminated the powerful U.S. bail-bond industry and The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and found that it hurts defendants, their victims William Arkin discussed how their series, and taxpayers. NPR’s reporting has been “Top Secret America,” described a mas- sive expansion of government created in Dana Priest (left) of The Washington Post and Karen de Sá of the San Jose cited in county commission meetings in Mercury News. Florida and in the Statehouses in Virginia, response to 9/11 that has become so large, Florida and North Carolina. unwieldy and secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of it employs or how many programs exist ProPublica discussed their collaborative within it. The two-year-long project resulted effort with Adam Davidson of NPR’s Planet in congressional investigations, a review of Money and and Alex Blumberg of all intelligence programs requested by the Chicago Public Radio’s on Defense Secretary, and the CIA’s reduction of their report “Betting Against the American contract workforce. Dream – The Wall Street Money Machine.” The series revealed how the recession of Much of the conversation centered on the 2008 was significantly deepened by the issue of funding for investigative report- machinations of Merrill Lynch, Citibank and ing. While the reporters all agreed that the Magnetar, a little-known hedge fund. As a work is important, they had different ideas result, the SEC is investigating deals refer- about how it could be provided for in news Ruben Vives (left) and Jeff Gottlieb of The Los Angeles Times.

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Goldsmith Book Prize The Goldsmith Book Prizes are awarded to the best academic and trade books that seek to improve the quality of government or poli- tics through an examination of press and politics in the formation of public policy. The Goldsmith Book Prize for best academic book was awarded to Tim Groeling for When Politicians Attack: Party Cohesion in the Media and Patrick J. Sellers for Cycles of Spin: Strategic Communication in the U. S. Congress. The Goldsmith Book Prize for best trade book went to Jack Fuller for What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism.

Book Prize winners Tim Groeling (left), Patrick J. Sellers and Jack Fuller. New Books by Former Fellows Seth Mnookin The Panic Virus David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides

Barbie Zelizer About to Die: How News Images james carroll Jerusalem, Move the Public Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World

How educators are using site’s sample syllabi into his teaching. “I’ve synthesized it liberally with other sources,” he tells the Shorenstein staff, “including a Journalist’s Resource syllabus from a Baruch colleague, and my own concepts from a in the classroom 45-year career at The New York Times.” Professor Janet Mizrahi, of UC-Santa Barbara, says she loves the site: “I organize my course Since 2009, Journalist’s Resource, part of the Carnegie-Knight around students finding their own study and research topic, and Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, has been under that’s where they look at what you have posted on your site.” And active development at the Shorenstein Center. The initial feedback at East Tennessee State University, Professor Mary-Alice Basconi during the site’s first full year of operation is now flowing in from has been using the site to deepen her journalism students’ critical coast to coast. It has been greatly encouraging. thinking skills. She says studies from Journalist’s Resource have proven “perfect as a guided entry to the research process.” The mission of Journalist’s Resource is no doubt ambitious: to furnish meaningful, research-based materials to the journalism After much labor and refinement, the site now features some marketplace, both academic and real-world. In this endeavor, 160 useful scholarly studies – across fields such as health care, the Shorenstein Center is taking the lead as the research and economics and energy – with its archive growing by the day. A site development arm of a broader movement propelled by the nation’s redesign has just been launched. Journalist’s Resource is being leading journalism schools. used robustly in over 100 schools nationwide, with many more educators planning to incorporate its material in fall 2011. Professor Ralph Blumenthal, of Baruch College, City University of New York, says that he’s a “happy user” who has incorporated the www.journalistsresource.org

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Spring 2011 Courses Press, Politics and Public Policy The Making of a Politician alex s. jones, Laurence . Lombard steve jarding, Lecturer on the Press and Public Policy Lecturer in Public Policy

Political Institutions and Public Policy: Election Polling and Public

American Politics Opinion HKS students at the thomas e. patterson, Bradlee patrick moynihan, Harvard beginning of the spring Professor of Government and the Press Department of Government semester.

Seminar: Democracy, Politics and 2020 Vision and Information Policy: Institutions (full year) Considering the Public Interest thomas e. patterson, Bradlee nolan bowie, Adjunct Lecturer Professor of Government and the Press in Public Policy Advanced Intensive Writing for Politics and Policy Presidents, Politics & Economic Growth The Arts of Communication greg harris, Adjunct Lecturer richard parker, Lecturer in Public marie danziger, Lecturer in Public Policy Policy Entrepreneurship in the Private and Social Sectors Running for Office and Managing Intensive Writing for Politics and Policy dick cavanagh, Adjunct Lecturer in Campaigns greg harris, luci herman, Public Policy steve jarding, Lecturer in Public Adjunct Lecturers Policy

NEWSMAKERS

Shorenstein Center Advisory Board Robert G. Picard, 2006 Shorenstein David Rohde, New York Times reporter member Roy A. Hammer received the Center Fellow, has been appointed the first and 2005 Shorenstein Center Fellow, is the Robert F. Drinan Award for Distinguished Director of Research at the University of inaugural recipient of the Frank McCulloch Service, presented by the ABA Section of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Courage in Journalism Award from the Individual Rights and Responsibilities. Journalism. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of , Reno.

Fall 2010 Fellows Papers Remembering David Broder Available at Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter David www.shorensteincenter.org Broder died on March 9, 2011 at the age of 81. His connection to Harvard dates back to his fellowship at charles gibson the Institute of Politics where he met Joan Shorenstein, a Restoring Comity to Congress graduate student at Harvard Divinity School. Broder was so impressed with Joan’s enthusiasm and ability that he karen Rothmyer recommended her for a job as a political researcher at The They Wanted Journalists to Say ‘Wow’: Washington Post the following year, in 1970. IOP Director How NGOs Affect U.S. Media Coverage Jonathan Moore invited Broder to serve on the advisory of Africa board for the proposed new Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, years before its Dietram A. Scheufele inauguration as the Shorenstein Center. He remained on the board and participated in Modern Citizenship or Policy Dead the activities of the Center in many ways—as T.H. White Lecturer in 1998, as panelist End? Evaluating the Need for Public at a DC conference on press coverage of health care reform in 2009, and as one of the Participation in Science Policy Making, architects of the Shorenstein Center’s 1988 Report on the State of the Presidential and Why Public Meetings May Not Be Press Conference. We shall miss him greatly. the Answer

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