Thoughts on the media future: N.Y. Times’ David Carr, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell
2014 roundup of recent Harvard Shorenstein Center events with the New York Times‘ David Carr, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
2014 roundup of recent Harvard Shorenstein Center events with the New York Times‘ David Carr, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
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Semester-long course on how to fairly and ethically cover diverse communities, which can often include not only race and ethnicity, but also religion, sexual orientation, national origin and more.
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2013 highlights from talks by journalists and media thinkers, including Bart Gellman, Maggie Haberman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ethan Zuckerman, Chuck Todd and Joan Walsh.
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2013 essay from BU professor Chris Daly’s book Covering America. He reviews the economics of the news business and key historical turning points.
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Semester-long course on digital media and its impact on society, politics, journalism, privacy, law and the economy.
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2013 study from Ohio State University published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics on the effects of coal mining and poverty in the Appalachia region.
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Tip sheet on formulating, researching, writing and editing news opinion articles.
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2012 overview of Stephen Hess’ book and research project, Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978-2012, exploring journalists’ career paths.
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Semester-long course on science reporting, including the environment, technology and medicine. There will be lessons on social media, online writing, and news and feature writing.
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Guide from the Citizen Media Law Project providing an overview of FOIA and other techniques for finding documents at different levels of government.
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