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Brian Stelter, who was dumped by CNN final month, has discovered a brand new gig discussing “threats to democracy” and the way the press can reply.
Stelter has been named a Harvard Kennedy Faculty’s Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellowship, and he’ll work with each college students and school in the course of the Fall of 2022.
“Because the Walter Shorenstein Fellow, Stelter will convene a collection of discussions about threats to democracy and the vary of potential responses from the information media. These discussions with media leaders, coverage makers, politicians, and Kennedy Faculty college students, fellows, and school will assist deepen public and scholarly understanding concerning the present state of the knowledge ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance,” the varsity famous.
Harvard Kennedy Faculty, which is the general public coverage faculty inside the prestigious college, famous in its announcement that Stelter was the anchor of “Dependable Sources” till August 2022, however didn’t make any word of why he left the community.
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Stelter’s present was canceled, and he was proven the door as new CNN CEO Chris Licht has put an emphasis on “information,” versus the liberal opinion programming that the community turned identified for underneath Jeff Zucker’s administration, notably in the course of the Trump administration.
In what many assumed was an try and appease new administration, Stelter not too long ago had an epiphany concerning the severity of the Hunter Biden scandal, which turned out to not be a dismissable “right-wing media story” just like the liberal pundit insisted in 2020.
However the last-ditched effort didn’t save his CNN present and Stelter, who developed a repute as a left-wing pundit and spent a lot of his airtime criticizing conservative media, has reportedly been telling folks he was primarily a “sacrificial lamb.”
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He was referred to as out in a report earlier this yr that famous he was the “face of the community’s liberal shift” within the eyes of conservatives, however continued to insist he was nonpartisan till the very finish.
“I do know I did not have all of the solutions, I did not even all the time have all the suitable questions… This is what I do know. I do know it isn’t partisan to face up for decency and democracy and dialogue,” Stelter advised CNN viewers throughout his final look. “It is not partisan to face as much as demagogues. It is required, it is patriotic. We should ensure that we do not give a platform to those that are mendacity to our faces. However we additionally should ensure that we’re representing the complete spectrum of debate and representing what is going on on on this nation and on this world.”
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In April, Stelter was visibly uncomfortable when confronted by a university freshman about his community being an alleged “purveyor of disinformation” throughout a panel dialogue on the Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy convention in Chicago.
The Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellowship “brings high-profile figures on the forefront of media, politics, and public coverage to Harvard’s Kennedy Faculty to work with college students, school, students and the general public on vital problems with the second,” in keeping with the varsity’s web site. Previous fellows embody legendary CBS reporter Bob Schieffer, former TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and Obama-era FCC chairman Tom Wheeler.
Fox Information’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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