'Pay barrier' in campaign financing a threat

Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-TN), said that "people don't like opinion unless it's theirs."

News coverage for a paying U.S. audience

Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor of Financial Times, said at the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch that "the end of the oversupply of journalism … might actually be good thing."

Journalism's roving eye

In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, John M. Hamilton, Dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, traced the historical and current state of foreign journalism.

Fall 2009 newsletter

The Shorenstein Center announces the release of the fall 2009 newsletter, with features on the fellowship program, research and publications, student activities, and popular events such as our weekly brown-bag talks.

The American public and the next phase of the health care debate

A new paper by Shorenstein faculty member Robert Blendon looks at public opinion on the debate over health care reform.

Can nonprofits save journalism?

Marion Fremont-Smith's new Shorenstein Center paper evaluates the role of nonprofit organizations in journalism.

Losing the News

A new book by Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones explores the vital role of journalism in democracy.

Former Shorenstein Fellow Michael Tomasky in The Guardian: "Obama Wasn't on the Ballot"

The Shorenstein Center hosted a discussion on "The Future of News" as reported in the Harvard Gazette

Kathleen Parker writes a Washington Post column about Alex S. Jones's new book Losing the News: "The Good-News Story"

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Shorenstein Center presented La Repubblica editor Ezio Mauro with a citation for leading the fight for press freedom in Italy: Press Release

Spring 2009 Fellow Jim O'Shea starts news organization: "Chicago News Venture to Sell Content to New York Times"

Jack Nelson, former Shorenstein Center Fellow and Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, dies at 80: "Journalist Helped Raise L.A. Times to National Prominence"

Former Shorenstein Center Fellow David Rohde in a five-part New York Times series: "Held by the Taliban"