research-chat

Journalist’s Resource aims to bridge the gap between the media and scholarly worlds. We come at the problem from the media end of things. But our friends at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s “Impact of Social Sciences” blog are encouraging more scholars themselves to engage directly in the wider communications space.

Renée Loth, a columnist for the Boston Globe, is the newspaper’s former editorial page editor. In that capacity, Loth was the highest-ranking woman at the Globe for nine years. Having covered presidential campaigns and served in various oversight capacities as editor, she’s spent a career both sorting through spin and practicing the art of informed opinion.

How much access is there to cutting-edge research online? The reality is that access to the world’s deepest knowledge — that produced by professional researchers — remains contested in the digital space.

Salant Lecture for the Shorenstein Center

By Clay Shirky

October 2011