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Why Church Committee alums urged new House panel to avoid partisanship
Fritz Schwarz, former chief counsel of the 1975-76 U.S. Senate panel known as the Church Committee, discusses what it was like to undertake the largest, most consequential investigation of U.S. intelligence in American history.
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Seeing like anthropologist through camera’s lens
Ryan Christopher Jones brings an anthropologist’s eye to his work as a freelance journalist. After finishing his liberal arts degree at the Extension School, he’ll be pursuing a Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard this fall.
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Defending The Times in a perilous age
Lead newsroom attorney details changes since 9/11, dangers facing reporters, and rise in hostility against media led by White House.
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Martin ‘Marty’ Baron to speak at Commencement
Martin “Marty” Baron, widely regarded as one of the leading newspaper editors of his era, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 369th Commencement on May 28.
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Twitter and the birth of the 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. discuss the newspaper’s landmark 1619 Project, which commemorates the 400th anniversary of slavery and reconsiders the historical record.
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Inside the Mueller inquiry and the ‘deep state’
New York Times and New Yorker writer James B. Stewart discusses President Trump’s ongoing war with federal law enforcement agencies and how his effort to label anyone who challenges him as the “deep state” will have damaging repercussions for the nation.
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The story behind the Weinstein story
Two years after journalists exposed movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s stunning history of sexual assault against women, which ushered in a tidal wave of sexual harassment and assault accusations against similarly powerful men and the public social media recollections of assaults known as the #MeToo movement, New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor discusses her work on…
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Champions of the press
New Yorker investigative reporter Jane Mayer and former New York Times editor Jill Abramson will deliver the 29th Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday evening.
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Isms stalk the land, but David Brooks hasn’t lost hope
New York Times columnist David Brooks touched on tribalism, community, and more in a discussion at the Ash Center.
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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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Not easily persuasive
Visiting professor and Washington Post political columnist E.J. Dionne on how he started as a journalist, self-editing, and the art of persuasion.
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Life in wartime, etched in sound
Radcliffe Fellow and Boston Globe critic Jeremy Eichler is working on two books examining music and memory against the backdrop of World War II.
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Unhand that comma!
Harvard wordsmiths Jill Abramson and Steven Pinker answered questions from the Gazette to mark National Punctuation Day.
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A prize of a weekend
The 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes brought leading lights from journalism and the arts to Harvard to reflect on accountability and the abuse of power.
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No hearing for Garland, but plenty of noise
Harvard analysts discuss the politics at work behind the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland ’74, J.D. ’77.
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Election spotlight turned on media
Veteran political journalists Jill Abramson, formerly of The New York Times, and CNN’s Sam Feist discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2016 presidential election coverage.
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Crossing a line
Former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse spoke at Harvard about the boundaries between journalism and citizenship and why she has crossed that line more than once.
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Reforming criminal justice
A new program at Harvard Law School aims to help reform the criminal justice system in the United States with assistance from Harvard students and faculty, says executive director Larry Schwartztol.
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Straight dealing
As Congress prepares to vote on a deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program, Harvard Kennedy School experts consider its merits and shortcomings and look to what’s next.
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Seeding journalism’s future
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson on coaching the next generation of journalism leaders.
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Three strong women
IOP Fellows Martha Coakley, Kay Hagan, and Christine Quinn talk candidly about their battle-scarred campaign days and advise students on what it really takes to make it in politics.
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Evaluating the Oscars
Film critic A.O. Scott spoke with the Gazette about the current crop of Oscar contenders, and Hollywood’s trends.
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A.O. Scott reviews himself
In a question-and-answer interview, New York Times film critic and Harvard alumnus A.O. Scott explains his craft, and how he came to it.
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A ‘sitdown’ with Snowden
By videoconference on Monday, Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who last year leaked more than 200,000 classified documents about U.S. surveillance efforts.
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Women at war
Three veteran war correspondents talk about the increasingly dangerous job of reporting from conflict zones.
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Power suits
Harvard President Drew Faust convened a panel of top female leaders in media, business, and government to talk about the evolving role of women, and the challenges as well as opportunities facing women today.
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Men on a mission
The Women’s Student Association at HBS finds some effective new ambassadors to negotiate gender issues on campus — men.
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Hard-pressed
In a new polemic, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Thomas Patterson calls for sweeping changes to the education of journalists and the practice of journalism.
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When things changed for women
During a Radcliffe address, New York Times columnist Gail Collins offered her perspective on why how and why the rights and expectations of American women changed so dramatically between 1960 and today.
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Cooperating in educating
The Harvard Campaign will help support growing advancements in interdisciplinary collaboration and integrated knowledge across the University.
