Tag: Thomas Patterson

  • 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.

    8 minutes
    Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters .
  • 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.

    8 minutes
    President Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act.
  • 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.

    16 minutes
  • 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.

    13 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

    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.

    5 minutes
  • 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.

    5 minutes