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Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard University research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. It is part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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    Tom Wheeler: The FCC, Net Neutrality, and Platform Regulation

    Tue, Feb 27, 2018
    Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama and Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, discusses technological change, President Trump’s FCC, regulation of social platforms, and more during a talk at the Shorenstein Center. Image: [Shorenstein Center](https://shorensteincenter.org/tom-wheeler-fcc-net-neutrality-platform-regulation/ "Shorenstein Center")
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    Elizabeth Bruenig: Religion, Politics, and the Left

    Tue, Feb 20, 2018
    Elizabeth Bruenig, a columnist at _The Washington Post_, sat with Shorenstein Fellow Richard Parker and others to discuss the evolving dynamic between religion, politics, and the left at a time when the political climate is charged with alt-right racist declarations and President Trump's anti-immigrant sentiments. [![Bruenig](http://forum-network.org/media/lecture\_images/bruenig\_gopro.png)](https://news.wgbh.org/2018/03/05/politics-government/wapos-elizabeth-bruenig-intersection-religion-and-politics "") **» SEE ALSO:** [Elizabeth Bruenig's interview with WGBH News.](https://news.wgbh.org/2018/03/05/politics-government/wapos-elizabeth-bruenig-intersection-religion-and-politics"")
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    Garrett Graff: Trump, Mueller, and Russia

    Tue, Feb 13, 2018
    With more than a dozen years of experience as an author, magazine journalist, and historian, Garrett Graff presents a talk on the ongoing investigation into the alleged collusion between the Trump administration and Russia. [![Graff](http://forum-network.org/media/lecture\_images/graff300.jpg)](https://news.wgbh.org/2018/02/22/politics-government/muellers-method-understanding-course-russia-investigation "") **» SEE ALSO:** [Garrett Graff's interview with WGBH News.](https://news.wgbh.org/2018/02/22/politics-government/muellers-method-understanding-course-russia-investigation"")
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    Margaret Sullivan: The State of the Media in 2018

    Tue, Feb 6, 2018
    Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post, writing on journalism ethics, free speech, and the intersection of politics and the news media. She talks with Nicco Mele, Director of the Shorenstein Center, about the #MeToo Movement, Trump's affect on the media, and the troubling decline of local newspapers.
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    Alexandra Petri – Satire and Comedy in the Age of Trump

    Tue, Nov 7, 2017
    Alexandra Petri is a writer for _The Washington Post’s_ ComPost blog and she brings "a lighter take on the news and political in(s)anity of the day." In this talk with Shorenstein fellows and friends, Petri tackles an hour-long conversation on the importance of humor during the Trump era and the emergence of more women in satire writing.
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    Jackie Calmes: The Conservative Media's Influence on U.S. Politics

    Tue, Oct 17, 2017
    From her position as an editor for the Whitehouse bureau of the _L.A. Times_, Jackie Calmes shares what she has learned about covering the Trump administration and compares it to her 2015 Shorenstein paper on how conservative media has influenced politics. [![racism\_in\_boston](http://forum-network.org/media/lecture\_images/Jackie\_Calmes2017-300.png)](http://news.wgbh.org/2017/10/25/politics-government/power-conservative-media-u-s-politics "") **» SEE ALSO:**[ Jackie Calmes' interview with WGBH News.](http://news.wgbh.org/2017/10/25/politics-government/power-conservative-media-u-s-politics"") (Photos: "White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and WH Chief Strategist Steve Bannon shake hands at 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)" "Sean Hannity speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland" and "Newt Gingrich speaking at CPAC 2013 in Washington, DC." by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)
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    Bob Schieffer on Finding Real News in an Online Information Deluge

    Tue, Oct 10, 2017
    Bob Schieffer covered American politics as a correspondent from the Department of State, Congress, and even the White House for more than 40 years, and yet he finds following news from Washington D.C. today more challenging than ever. Shieffer's new book is _Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News_, which he discussed in the context of current politics during a visit to the Harvard University's Shorenstein Center. ![racism\_in\_boston](http://forum-network.org/media/lecture\_images/schieffer\_300.png) [Hear Bob Schieffer's interview with WGBH News on politics today.](http://news.wgbh.org/2017/10/16/politics-government/bob-schieffer-takes-long-view-washington-politics "")
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    Nancy Youssef: U.S. National Security vis-à-vis North Korea and the Middle East

    Tue, Sep 26, 2017
    Drawing from years of experience reporting on troop movement, war and diplomacy since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, _Wall Street Journal_ correspondent Nancy Youssef talked about national security under a Trump Administration during her recent visit to the Shorenstein Center in Cambridge. [![racism\_in\_boston](http://forum-network.org/media/lecture\_images/nancy\_youssef\_300.jpg)](http://news.wgbh.org/2017/09/29/news/nancy-youssef-talks-journalism-national-security-and-north-korea "") **» SEE ALSO:** [Nancy Youssef's interview with WGBH News.](http://news.wgbh.org/2017/09/29/news/nancy-youssef-talks-journalism-national-security-and-north-korea"")
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