Leading in the age of influence
As media power shifts from newsrooms to algorithms and influencers, Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center helps public leaders navigate partisanship, rebuild trust, and reach audiences where they are.
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Paywalls
Over the past two decades, local newspapers have overwhelmingly adopted subscription paywalls, restricting access to those willing and able to pay.
Local Experience, National Media, and Misperceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper examines conditions under which under- and overestimations about the scale of nationwide COVID-19 deaths attenuate.
Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA
Scientists provide important information to the public. Whether that information influences decision-making depends on trust.
Conspiratorial thinking in a 50-state survey of American adults
Conspiratorial thoughts as a cognitive aspect are understudied outside small clinical cohorts.
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