Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection^{[clarification needed]} and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice.^[1]

Among other activities, the center organizes dozens of yearly events for journalists, scholars and the public, many of which take place at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.^[2][3] Courses taught by Shorenstein Center professors are also an integral part of the Harvard Kennedy School's curriculum.

Since its founding in 1986, the center has also emerged as a source for research on US campaigns, elections and journalism.^[4] The center hosts visiting fellows each semester, who produce research on a broad range of topics.^[5] Papers have included "Riptide: What Really Happened to the News Business," by John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz and Paul Sagan;^[6][7] "Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?" by Peter Hamby of CNN and Snapchat;^[4][8] and "Digital Fuel of the 21st Century," by Vivek Kundra, who was the first chief information officer of the United States from March 2009 to August 2011 under President Barack Obama.^[9][10] In 2016, the center produced a series of four reports analyzing media coverage of the 2016 US presidential election, authored by Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press.^[11]

The Shorenstein Center also awards the annual Goldsmith Awards Program, which includes the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Goldsmith Book Prize.^[12][13] Past winners have included James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times;^[14] Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune;^[15] and Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of The Washington Post.^[16] Other prizes and lectures given by the Shorenstein Center include the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism,^[17] the T.H. White Lecture on Press and Politics^[18] and the Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press.^[19]