Tag: Media
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Fanning the flames on ‘Succession’
Harvard Extension School faculty member Thomas M. Nichols played an analyst on a recent episode of HBO’s dark satire “Succession.”
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Why ‘The Exorcist’ is really more of zombie thing
English course offers kaleidoscopic, cross-disciplinary look at horror classic as film, potential play, cultural artifact with long shadow.
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How Russians see Russia
Pockets of worry and anger, says ex-Moscow Times journalist, but anti-West sentiment won’t yield easily to Ukraine reality.
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A key inflation index leaps. Getting worried?
Economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses how consumers’ perceptions about inflation are an important factor that influences inflationary cycles.
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Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’
Analysts in public health, politics, and technology discuss the “pandemic” of COVID-19 misinformation being shared around the world.
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Media columnist surveys the landscape
Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for The Washington Post, talks about the turmoil in journalism, the difficulties of covering the Trump administration, and the landscape ahead.
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A concentration’s first growth spurt
As Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media specialty turns 2 this spring, it graduates its first concentrators.
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Tips on guiding parents through media maze
As part of the Harvard Ed Portal Faculty Speaker series, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Joe Blatt shared his research on ever-changing technology and media’s impact on children.
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The election’s over, the ire isn’t
Three weeks after a remarkably nasty presidential election, emotions remain raw, as was evidenced when the Trump and Clinton camps met for the first time at Harvard Kennedy School for a debriefing conference this week.
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The making of the campaign, 2016
New analysis by Harvard Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson finds the conflicted motivation of news outlets covering the 2016 election has resulted in significantly lopsided and disparate attention paid to the Republican and Democratic candidates.
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Prospects for digital humanities
THATCamp forum allows practitioners of digital humanities to define their concerns, devise solutions for them.
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Beneath the ‘Surface’
Keynote speaker Professor Giuliana Bruno will launch the Harvard Film and Visual Studies Department’s inaugural graduate conference, April 10-12 at the Carpenter Center, with a discussion of her new book, “Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.”
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Science vs. politics
The ongoing debate over climate change is a political one, not a scientific one, panelists at the Harvard Kennedy School said.
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All kinds of content
Gary Knell, CEO of NPR, described the station’s efforts toward a multimedia future in a talk at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
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Lights, cameras, reaction
Harvard Kennedy School students train to be leaders in the public sector — with the emphasis on public. A popular program makes the spotlight, whether in front of a camera, an audience, or a keyboard, less intimidating.
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The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered
Fifty years ago, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously shocked the nascent television industry out of complacency, calling American television a “vast wasteland.” On Sept. 12, he joined an all-star lineup at Harvard Law School to discuss the problems and potential of the vaster wasteland that now includes elements of the Internet.
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Working with WikiLeaks
In the age of WikiLeaks and other web whistleblowers, traditional journalists still have an important role to play in publishing government secrets in an effective and responsible way, said Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times. He was joined at the Nieman Foundation on Dec. 16 by a group of concerned journalists and…
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Renewing Harvard’s library system
Setting a fresh course for the future of the Harvard library system, University leaders have embraced a series of recommendations from the Library Implementation Work Group to establish a coordinated management structure and increasingly focus resources on the opportunities presented by new information technology.
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In brief
@HARVARDRESEARCH debuts on Twitter; Live Webcast information for Commencement and HAA Meeting; Harvard Extension School to host information session
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Matt Lauer anchors Class Day festivities
Matt Lauer, co-anchor of NBC News’ “Today,” delivered the 2009 Senior Class Day speech in Tercentenary Theatre on Wednesday (June 3) under a canopy of green leaves and slightly overcast skies. With a joke-filled address that had the large crowd frequently in stitches, the accomplished journalist proved he is also an accomplished stand-up comedian.
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Nieman Foundation chooses 24 for its 72nd class of Nieman Fellows
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has selected 24 journalists from the United States and abroad to join the 72nd class of Nieman Fellows. The group includes print and multimedia reporters and editors; radio and television journalists; photographers; book authors; a filmmaker; and a columnist.
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Gates’ ‘Lives 2’ receives Parents’ Choice Award
Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s PBS documentary “African American Lives 2” has won the Parents’ Choice Gold Award for Television, awarded last month by the Parents’ Choice Foundation.
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Gwen Ifill of ‘Washington Week’ wins Goldsmith Award
The winners of the Shorenstein Center’s annual Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism are by definition accomplished. But in listing all the achievements of this year’s recipient, Gwen Ifill, Shorenstein Center director Alex Jones chose to focus on something that is unlikely to find its way onto her resumé.
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In the ether of radio waves, indigenous talk finds its place
Amid the pop music countdowns, the nightly news, and the laugh-show programs, radio waves across the world crackle softly with the voices of indigenous peoples. Their stories — too often unheard — tell of struggles for recognition, enfranchisement, territory, and cultural preservation. For these communities, radio does far more than entertain.
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Marla Frederick talks about faith, God, and money
Not long ago, Harvard cultural anthropologist Marla Frederick sat on a wooden bench in a slum of Kingston, Jamaica. She was interviewing local churchgoers about the Christian “prosperity gospel” often promoted by American televangelists. It offers up a simple (and controversial) idea: The more you give, the more you receive.