How do newspapers affect civic life? Data and analysis on Seattle and Denver
2014 study from Portland State University published in Political Communication on how the loss of newspapers in two U.S. cities diminished civic life.
2014 study from Portland State University published in Political Communication on how the loss of newspapers in two U.S. cities diminished civic life.
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2013 research overview on the impact of automotive pollution on human health, by Doug Brugge of Tufts Medical School and the Scholars Strategy Network.
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2014 report by the Congressional Research Service on how U.S. corporate tax rates compare to those of the 31 member nations of the OECD; it also assesses the impact of reform proposals.
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2011 study from the University of Toronto and MIT Sloan School of Management on the effectiveness of contextual and high-visual online advertising campaigns.
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2014 study the Harvard School of Public Health on how the new school food standards of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have affected students’ meal choices and behavior.
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2014 review of the six finalists for the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Prize; the social impacts of each story is articulated by the reporters.
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February 2014 review of latest scholarship on topics such as Twitter networks, geolocation and privacy, and paying for news online.
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2013 research overview on the effects of term limits on the positions that politicians take, by Jennifer Hayes Clark and Robert Lucas Williams, University of Houston.
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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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2014 report from the Pew Research Center detailing how the economic divide between college-educated and those without a degree is rising.
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