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Date and Location
Caroline Kracunas
In the wake of Vice President Harris’s official nomination as the Democratic candidate for President, issues about how the press covers female candidates running for public office (particularly when a candidate is also a woman of color) are again on full display, both obviously and subtly. The Shorenstein Center is hosting a timely panel discussion with journalists, campaign veterans, and scholars about how the media has seeded, promoted, and occasionally knocked down bias, sexism, and misogynoir in public discussions about female politicians, and what the research says about how this coverage has changed in recent years (if at all). Award-winning journalist and former Shorenstein Fellow Alison King (Spring ’24) will moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Women and Public Policy Program at HKS.
Speakers:
Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent for The 19th
Meredith Clark, Associate Professor of Race and Political Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brandi Collins-Dexter, Schuster Media and Technology Fellow at the Shorenstein Center
Jennifer Lawless, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor of Politics and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Virginia
Speakers and Presenters
Amanda Becker, Washington Correspondent for The 19th;
Brandi Collins-Dexter, Schuster Media and Technology Fellow at the Shorenstein Center;
Jennifer Lawless, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor of Politics and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Virginia;
Meredith Clark, Associate Professor of Race and Political Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill