Tag: Nicco Mele

  • Nation & World

    Journalist, whistleblower, or dangerous security leak?

    Legal, intelligence, and news analysts discuss the arrest in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces conspiracy charges by U.S. federal prosecutors for the disclosure of classified national security documents stolen by Pfc. Chelsea Manning

    9 minutes
    Julian Assange in a police van.
  • Nation & World

    Big Tech’s power growing at runaway speed

    Harvard Kennedy School experts offer views on why the U.S. government continues to grapple with the power of technology and its impact on democracy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Try hard, find God, get rich

    The prosperity gospel, a strain of Christian belief that that links faith, positive thinking, and material wealth, is finding a foothold in American politics with the rise of President Trump, according to panelists at a Kennedy School forum.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Campaign ’16: How coverage rerouted

    A comprehensive report from the Berkman Klein Center found stark differences between what conservative media consumers read and shared online and what everyone else was doing.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pursuing veritas in a ‘post-truth’ era

    Top reporters and editors discuss the future of news, as well as the opportunities and the challenges the industry faces in what many observers call the “post-truth” era.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New national motto: You’re wrong, I’m right

    The Gazette asked Harvard scholars for thoughts on how communities across the U.S. might work toward post-election compromise.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    For journalism, the future is now

    In a sign of the times, political technologist Nicco Mele is taking the helm at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy. In a Q&A session, he discusses the issues that he and his center will face.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nicco Mele named director of Shorenstein Center

    Nicco Mele, the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California, is the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    An app aimed at transparency

    Super PAC App, the brainchild of recent Harvard Kennedy School graduate Jennifer Hollett and her MIT classmate, gives voters information on the big-money donors behind this season’s campaign ads in real time.

    5 minutes