Tag: Thomas Patterson
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Nation & World
Muting Trump’s ‘megaphone’ easier said than done
Political experts suggest ways media can blunt the former president’s skillful manipulation of coverage to spread falsehoods, divisiveness.
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Nation & World
How did Biden go from zero to hero in public arena so quickly?
Kennedy School’s Thomas Patterson on the political press’s sudden change of heart on Biden.
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Nation & World
Debating the debates
On the eve of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Harvard analysts discuss whether presidential debates offer citizens civic value anymore and how to improve them as the nation navigates its political differences.
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Nation & World
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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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.
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Nation & World
Academia, meet the press
With its increasingly popular website called Journalist’s Resource, the Shorenstein Center is putting academia’s insights at reporters’ fingertips, and making a broader case for knowledge-based reporting.
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Nation & World
Global warnings
Harvard Kennedy School panelists say that the slippage in mainstream media outlets means more voices argue about environmental issues, prompting the public to have difficulty sorting out the cacophony and even to doubt global warming.