Tag: National Public Radio

  • Nation & World

    Honored or not, these films won critic’s heart

    Ahead of the Academy Awards, David Edelstein ’81 talks up his favorite films of the past year.

    6 minutes
    William DeFoe in film
  • Nation & World

    Racial discrimination still rules, poll says

    A panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed a poll that found more than half of African-Americans reported being discriminated against in the workplace and in police interactions.

    4 minutes
    Panelists in last week's Chan School Forum "Discrimination in America: African American Experiences," were Dwayne Proctor (from left), Elizabeth Hinton, David Williams, and Robert Blendon.
  • Nation & World

    Keeping adults in the game

    In response to a recent poll that found most adults who played sports when they were younger stopped doing so as they aged, a panel of experts convened at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health explored how to keep adults in the game.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Radio revolution

    In a new paper, Shorenstein Fellow Steve Oney details the radical vision of NPR????s earliest days.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The mess left by stress

    A new report says many Americans are feeling high levels of stress, and a forum addressed how they might deal with it.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Following the story

    Melissa Block ’83, the host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” returned to campus to discuss her career and the changing landscape of digital media.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sorting immigration facts, fiction

    A conference on “The Futures of Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue” brought together academics and working reporters to hash out immigration topics such as the law, economics, and the future impact of the new arrivals’ children on U.S. labor markets and culture.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From A to Zeega

    Three Harvard affiliates nab a big new-media prize, and marvel at the University’s converging forces that mix the digital age with traditional scholarship.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ecosystems under siege

    Environmental panel discusses the problems facing the Earth, and what it would take to reverse the damaging trends.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Understanding health care reform

    With the debate on health care reform slowing after its passage, media outlets now turn to explaining how the massive legislation will be implemented.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard promotes area businesses this holiday season

    With sizzling hamburger sliders coming off the grill, steaming hot chocolate going into eager hands, and harmonious a cappella voices filling the background, organizers on Thursday (Dec. 3) launched a “Think Harvard Square” campaign to promote local businesses this holiday shopping season.

    2 minutes
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    Journey to D.C.

    Harvard Kennedy School graduate Sam Sanders ’09 writes about his experience as a public policy student and the road that led him to National Public Radio.

    3 minutes