Media & Journalism

Mar 1, 2020; Champaign, Illinois, USA; Indiana Hoosiers guard Al Durham (1) shoots against the Illinois Fighting Illini during the first half at State Farm Center. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports

Up Front

March Madness and college basketball’s racial bias problem

Steven Foy and Rashawn Ray

Friday, March 6, 2020

2020

Mar

Past Policy 2020 Event

CANCELED — Educating for democracy: Lessons from the teaching profession

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

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Order from Chaos

The lessons of the Afghanistan Papers

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Kevin Huggard

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris speaks during the fifth 2020 campaign debate at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - HP1EFBL08V31G

FixGov

MSNBC debate moderators largely ignored people of color

John Hudak

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Reports

The Journal de Morges newspaper is being printed in the KBA rotary press at the Lausanne Printing Center (Centre d'Impression Lausanne), owned by Tamedia, in Bussigny, Switzerland, May 3, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse - RC1A045A9390

Media & Journalism

Local journalism in crisis: Why America must revive its local newsrooms

Clara Hendrickson

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015 (SPIEF 2015) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 19, 2015. Putin said on Friday Russia was doing well in tackling its economic crisis, aggravated by Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and a fall in global oil prices. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor - GF10000133125

Technology & Innovation

Weapons of the weak: Russia and AI-driven asymmetric warfare

Alina Polyakova

Thursday, November 15, 2018

A trader watches, as a television displays the news about former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn, at the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) in New York, U.S., December 1, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC18062BEA70

Media & Journalism

How to combat fake news and disinformation

Darrell M. West

Monday, December 18, 2017

Telecommunications & Internet

Did technology kill the truth?

Tom Wheeler

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Journalists take pictures during a news conference

Report

What the post-Trump debate over journalism gets wrong

Tom Rosenstiel

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Blog Posts

Detroit News and Detroit Free Press paper boxes sit in front of the papers building in Detroit, Michigan December 16, 2008. The Newspapers Partnership announced a plan to reduce home-delivery of the papers to three days a week and a push for their on-line editions. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES) - GM1E4CH0A2K01

FixGov

How the Gannett/GateHouse merger could deepen America’s local news crisis

Clara Hendrickson

Monday, November 18, 2019

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience on "the challenges of protecting free speech while combating hate speech online, fighting misinformation, and political data privacy and security," at a forum hosted by Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) and the McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso - RC1CB9578F30

TechTank

Can social media ‘targetcasting’ and democracy coexist?

Tom Wheeler

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

A news stand outfitted with "Fake News" headlines as a stunt pulled off by the Columbia Journalism Review is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S., October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - RC1A03704C60

TechTank

4 steps to stop the spread of disinformation online

Lisa Kaplan

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

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Experts

Jonathan Rauch

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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Multimedia

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Podcast Episode

What does the Gannett-GateHouse merger mean for local journalism?

Clara Hendrickson and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a news conference.

Media & Journalism

Trump’s war on the press

Marvin Kalb, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 7, 2018

An Interior Ministry member stands guard on Red Square with parts of the Kremlin seen in the background.

Russia

Marvin Kalb’s stories from Russia

Marvin Kalb, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

Friday, March 9, 2018

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Reports

Enemy of the people

The consequences of misinformation: A symposium on media and democracy

Media Freedom in the Middle East: Part II

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Vice President and Director - Governance Studies

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