Hacking: What journalists need to know. A conversation with Bruce Schneier
A primer on the tech issues behind the cyberattacks that have roiled the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Reporting on crisis, disaster, homeland security: Tips from Juliette Kayyem
2015 conversation with Juliette Kayyem, a Harvard University lecturer and national leader in homeland security. She offers advice on how journalists can better cover disasters and hold accountable the government agencies that respond to and manage emergency events.
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Exploring the worldviews of young black men in America: Research chat with sociologist Alford A. Young, Jr.
2015 interview with University of Michigan sociologist Alford A. Young Jr., whose work has explored the lives and outlooks of young African-American males.
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Remembering David Carr of the New York Times: A meta-level conversation about power, networks and media
After the 2015 death of the New York Times media critic, we highlight his 2011 conversation with scholar danah boyd on the nature of media in the era of WikiLeaks and Occupy Wall Street.
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Research chat: U.T. Austin’s Talia Stroud on how to de-polarize news audiences
2013 research chat with Natalia “Talia” Jomini Stroud, assistant director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Harvard’s José Gómez-Ibáñez: Key insights on the future of transportation and infrastructure
Harvard professor Gómez-Ibáñez talks about research on subjects as diverse as transit in the developing world, electric vehicles in urban areas and high-speed rail.
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Research chat: Sarah Cohen of the New York Times on the state of data journalism and what reporters need to know
2014 conversation with a leading practitioner of data journalism. Cohen is editor of computer-assisted reporting at the New York Times and board president of Investigative Reporters & Editors.
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Harvard’s Tom Patterson on knowledge-based journalism: Video research chat
Recent interviews with Journalist’s Resource research director Thomas Patterson. Patterson is author of the forthcoming book Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-based Journalism.
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Media bias, partisanship and what it means for democracy: Research chat and reading list
Highlights and audio from a series of 2014 seminars held at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a reading list of related work by the scholars, selected by Journalist’s Resource.
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Research chat: Peter Singer on cybersecurity and what the media needs to know
2014 discussion with the senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution’s Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.
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