[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.
[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.
Kennedy School dean Graham Allison and Harvard president Derek Bok supported the concept, and an advisory board and committee were formed.
[23] Those consulted included political scientist Richard Neustadt; attorney and educator David Riesman; journalists James C. Thomson Jr., David S. Broder, J. Anthony Lukas and Dan Rather; newspaper executives Otis Chandler, Katharine Graham and William O. Taylor II; researcher Stephen H. Hess; Foreign Affairs editor James F. Hoge, Jr.; and television executive Frank Stanton .
Her parents, Walter H. and Phyllis J. Shorenstein, were interested in creating an initiative that would honor their daughter's passion for journalism and politics, and spoke with Edward M. Kennedy, Allison, Bok and Moore.
[25] He worked to raise the center's profile, and under his leadership the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics was established, followed by the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
[26] Kalb directed the center until 1999, and during that time formalized its fellowship program; developed the introductory course on press, politics and public policy; and expanded the Kennedy School's curriculum.