Brian Stelter to lead talks on 'threats to democracy' at Harvard after being dropped by CNN
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (TND) — Former CNN host Brian Stelter, who was ousted from the network last month, is slated to host a series of talks about "threats to democracy" at Harvard, the university announced.
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School made the announcement Monday that Stelter would become the latestWalter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, which Harvard says "brings high-profile figures at the forefront of media, politics, and public policy to Harvard’s Kennedy School to work with students, faculty, scholars and the public on important issues of the moment."
Stelter will host "a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media," the university's announcement stated. "These discussions with media leaders, policy makers, politicians, and Kennedy School students, fellows, and faculty will help deepen public and scholarly understanding about the current state of the information ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance."
Just last month, Stelter was fired from CNN amid a shift in the network's coverage following a merger between CNN's Warner Media and Discovery.
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Upon entering, new CNN CEO Chris Licht began looking at whether CNN's personalities and programming, which became very polarized during the Trump-era, could fit within the network's new goal to be less partisan, Axios reported.
Roughly a month later, Stelter was gone.
Prior to joining CNN in 2013, Stelter spent time as a media reporter at The New York Times. He has also been a fellow at Georgetown's Institute of Politics and Public Service, taught as a journalism adjunct at New York University and has written numerous books that have made the New York Times best-seller list.
In 2014, Forbes named Stelter to their "30 Under 30" for members of the media.
When approached for comment, Harvard directed The National Desk (TND) to a webpagebriefly describing the Walter Shorenstein fellowship, as well as to the announcement mentioned earlier in this article.
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