2011 Report on the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education
Report produced by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the progress shown in journalism schools participating in a nationwide reform movement
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Research chat: Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic talks icebergs, Google Scholar and his process
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal reflects on his sequence of Web-based research for an online article, “The Many Failures and Few Successes of Zany Iceberg Towing Schemes.”
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Political change in the digital age: The fragility and promise of online organizing
2010 paper by the Berkman Center at Harvard University on frameworks for evaluating activism in the Internet age, particularly in repressive environments.
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Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers
2011 World Bank study on the effects of globalization pressures on wages and employment opportunities for American workers between 1982 and 2002.
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Arousal increases social transmission of information
2011 study by the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in Psychological Science on the underlying factors that drive people to share news
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Information needs of communities: The changing media landscape in a broadband age
2011 FCC report on the changing information environment in the 21st century and the challenges for both the press and democracy.
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United Nations IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change
U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report presenting the latest consensus science on temperature rise, its causes and future implications
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Cognitive control in media multitaskers
2009 study by Stanford University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on mental effects of consumption of several media streams at once.
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Debt and debt ceiling issues: Research roundup
Range of reports, studies and working papers on the implications of the United States’ carrying a large public debt.
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Changes in diet and lifestyle and long-term weight gain
2011 study in the New England Journal of Medicine on patterns of food consumption and exercise and their lifetime effects on body weight.
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