[Sci-tech-public] REMINDER: STS Circle, March 31 - Rochelle Sharpe (Please RSVP)

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STS Circle at Harvard
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Rochelle Sharpe
Freelance Journalist

on
Sex, Lies, and Technology: A Journalist's Encounter with Bioethics and Big Data

Monday, March 31
12:15-2:00 pm
Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts<mailto:sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<mailto:sts at hks.harvard.edu> by 5pm Today, Wednesday, March 26.

Abstract: With his remarkable stories on the race riots in Detroit in the 1960s, Philip Meyer helped create a new form of newsgathering called precision journalism, which applies social science research methods to reporting. Rochelle Sharpe will describe how precision journalism has influenced her work covering such social issues as abortion, child abuse, and surrogate parenting. She will also discuss how she’s used large datasets for investigative stories about public health and explain how in this era of big data, collaborations between journalists and academics are creating groundbreaking stories that can better inform the public.


Biography:  Rochelle Sharpe is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. Now a freelance writer in Brookline, MA, she’s worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, Business Week and USA Today. She was a reporter in Washington, D.C. for 13 years, writing extensively about health, labor and various social issues.  A pioneer in database journalism, she has used computers to show how the nation’s medical examiners failed to detect child abuse murders and to explore why millions of Medicare recipients have undergone cancer screenings that experts consider medically unnecessary. She’s a graduate of Yale University, and has written stories that have led to Congressional hearings and been discussed on Oprah and David Letterman. Last year, she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.




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