2011 Archive
December
12/5: "The Dark Side: Reporting on the War on Terror." Kelman Seminar with Roger Cohen, columnist, International Herald Tribune; Fisher Family Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; and Carlotta Gall, reporter covering Pakistan and Afghanistan for The New York Times; Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
11/29: "Inside the Mitt Machine: The Media and the Message." Speaker Series with Russell J. Schriefer, political consultant and media strategist, has worked on the last five presidential campaigns. He is a founding partner, with Stuart Stevens, of the Stevens & Schriefer Group, a strategic communications company. He is currently a senior advisor and media consultant to the Mitt Romney for President campaign.
Learn more11/28: "Fighting for human rights and press freedom in Bahrain: Possibilities and Limitations." Discussion with Dr. Mansoor al Jamri, editor-in-chief of Bahrain's Al Wasat. Co-sponsored by Harvard Law & International Development Society, HLS Human Rights Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Islamic Legal Studies Program, HKS Middle East Initiative, Shorenstein Center, Middle Eastern Law Students Association and The Prince al Waleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.
11/21: "A Media Lesson from the Financial Meltdown." Speaker Series with Diana Henriques, senior financial writer at The New York Times and the author of The Wizard of Lies.
Learn more | audio11/18: Theodore H. White Seminar on the Press and Politics with Tad Devine, Democratic media consultant for presidential campaigns; founder, Devine Mulvey; IOP Fellow; Thomas Frank, 2011 Nyhan Prize recipient; author and columnist, Harper's magazine; Nia-Malika Henderson, national political reporter, The Washington Post; Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard University; staff writer, The New Yorker; Mark McKinnon, Republican communications strategist; columnist, The Daily Beast; Reidy Fellow, Shorenstein Center; Andrew Sullivan, blogger and political commentator; The Daily Beast; 2011 Theodore H. White Lecturer; Alex S. Jones, moderator, Shorenstein Center Director.
Learn more | audio11/17: "Conservatism And Its Discontents." Theodore H. White Lecture on the Press and Politics by Andrew Sullivan, political commentator with The Daily Beast.
Learn more | video11/15: "Gaddafi's Last Guests: Witness to the Final Days of the Gaddafi Regime." Speaker Series with Missy Ryan, Military Affairs and Afghanistan-Pakistan correspondent, Reuters.
Learn more | audio11/9: Screening of the documentary Miss Representation. Sponsored by the Shorenstein Center, KSSG and the Women and Public Policy Program.
11/8: "Israeli Spring: The Unanswered Jewish Question." Lecture with Roger Cohen, International Herald Tribune/New York Times columnist, and Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project. Co-sponsored by the Belfer Center.
11/8: "Where Is Turkey Headed? The Politics and the Media." Speaker Series with Cüneyt Ülsever, freelance journalist, Turkey. Learn more | audio
11/1: "Out of Line: The Art of Editorial Cartooning." Speaker Series with Dan Wasserman, editorial cartoonist, The Boston Globe.
Learn more | audio10/26: "The Commission on Presidential Debates in 2012: Candidates, Conversation & Caffeine." Janet Brown, executive director, Commission on Presidential Debates. Co-Sponsored with the Institute of Politics.
Learn more10/25: "From Uprisings in the Arab World to Social Unrest in London: The New Media Ecology and Citizen/State Dynamics in the 21st Century." Speaker Series with Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Learn more | audio10/24: "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda." Seminar with Eric Schmitt, terrorism correspondent for The New York Times, and Thom Shanker, Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Moderators: Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Belfer Center.
10/15: Mark McKinnon, political communications strategist and columnist for the Daily Beast, spoke with Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico.
Learn more | audio10/15: Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, speaks with Joichi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab.
Learn more | audio10/14: Dan Okrent, writer and editor, and Adam Moss, editor-in-chief, New York magazine.
Learn more | audio10/14: New York Times columnist David Carr and Harvard/NYU's Danah Boyd, also senior researcher at Microsoft Research.
Learn more | audio10/14: Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation and Global Voices, and Abderrahim Foukara, Washington bureau chief, Al Jazeera.
Learn more | audio10/14: Clay Shirky, NYU professor of new media, delivers the 2011 Richard Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press.
Learn more | audio10/14: Steve Grove, head of News and Politics at YouTube, and Anne-Marie Slaughter of Princeton University.
Learn more | audio10/14: Xeni Jardin, founding partner and co-editor of Boing Boing, and Miles O'Brien, science correspondent, PBS NewsHour.
Learn more | audio10/14: Ken Auletta, New Yorker columnist, and Vivek Kundra, former U.S. Chief Information Officer.
Learn more | audio10/11: "Haunting Legacy: How a Lost War Still Influences White House War Policy." Marvin Kalb, founding director of the Joan Shorenstein Center and author of Haunting Legacy with Deborah Kalb. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs.
Learn more | audio10/6: "The Divided States of America: What the Voters Think." Peter Hart, chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates. Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics.
Learn more10/4: "HuffPost, the Web and the Campaign of 2012." Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffingrton Post-AOL Media Group and an NBC News analyst, contributing reports to the network and its cable affiliate MSNBC.
Learn more | audio9/27: "Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America." Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge magazine; Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
Learn more | audio9/21: "Social Media, Journalism and the Arab Spring." Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist, Social Media Desk, NPR.
Learn more | audio9/13: "Covering the White House in a Bare-knuckled Media Culture." Jessica Yellin, chief White House correspondent for CNN.
Learn more | audio5/17: "A Conversation on the Economy and our Fiscal Challenge." U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, moderated by Alex S. Jones.
Learn more | Video | Audio | Transcript (PDF) | Slideshow4/26: "South Africa: Press, Politics and Development in the Post-Apartheid Era." Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the Media with Bob Giles, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and Rob Rose, business reporter for South Africa's Sunday Times and 2011 Nieman Fellow.
4/20: "Adventures in Public Radio." Vivian Schiller, former president and CEO, National Public Radio.
Learn more | audio4/12: "Did Dodd-Frank Fix the Mess?" Speaker Series talk with Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and a columnist at The New York Times.
Learn more | audio4/7: "Undermining Our Own Security: U.S. Policies in the Middle East and Beyond." A discussion with Glenn Greenwald, constitutional lawyer; contributing writer at Salon.com, where he writes one of the most widely read political and legal blogs on the Internet. Co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative and the Harvard Kennedy School Progressive Student Caucus.
4/6: "The Changing Role of the Media: A View from Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street." Business & Government Seminar Series with Simon Lewis, Chief Executive, Association for Financial Markets in Europe; former official spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Queen. Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and the Shorenstein Center.
4/5: "Digital Citizens: The Internet and Politics." Caroline Tolbert, professor of political science, University of Iowa; co-author of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation.
Learn more | Audio4/4: "Making the Digital Fourth Estate: Redefining the Role of a Free Press for the 21st Century." Speaker Series talk with Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University; former director of digital content for Guardian News and Media.
Learn more | Audio3/29: "The Military and the Media: Two Perspectives—Iraq and Pakistan." Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media with Wajahat Khan, Shorenstein Fellow and broadcast and print journalist in Pakistan; and Emma Sky, Institute of Politics Fellow and former political advisor to General Ray T. Odierno, in Iraq. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
3/29: "Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama." Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; columnist for The Nation; regular contributor to The Daily Beast.
Learn more | audio3/23: "In the Shadow of the Japan Crisis: The Seesaw Coverage of Nuclear Power." Clean Energy and the Media Series with Ned Potter, ABC News science correspondent, and Matthew Wald, New York Times energy reporter. Discussant: Matthew Bunn, Belfer Center. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Learn more3/22: "Growing an Online Community." Donna Byrd, publisher of The Root.
Learn more | audio3/9: The "Leading through the Internet" Series with Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook. Moderated by David Gergen, CPL Director and Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center Director.
Learn more3/8: "From Wikileaks to Cairo: Six Months That Changed International Reporting." David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent, The New York Times.
Learn more | audio3/8: Goldsmith Seminar with the winner and finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center. Panelists include Marshall Allen and Alex Richards, The Las Vegas Sun; Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives, The Los Angeles Times; Laura Sullivan and Steven Drummond, National Public Radio; Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, ProPublica; Karen de Sá, San Jose Mercury News; Dana Priest and William Arkin, The Washington Post.
Learn more | transcript (PDF)3/7: Goldsmith Awards Ceremony with a keynote address by Frank Rich, former columnist, The New York Times; winner of the 2011 Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. Presentation of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Goldsmith Book Prizes.
Learn more | video | transcript (PDF)3/1: "Tools for Democracy: Information for the Body Politic." Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director, Sunlight Foundation.
Learn more | audio2/28: PON Film Series Presents: Knocking with a discussion with film producer and director Joel Engardio. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Joan Shorenstein Center.
2/23: "The Long Road to Electric Cars: Green Hope or Media Hype?" Clean Energy and the Media Series with Alan Boyle, MSNBC.com science editor, and Bryan Walsh, Time magazine environment reporter. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
2/22: "From the Frontlines to Online: A Year in Press Freedom." Joel Simon, executive director, Committee to Protect Journalists.
Learn more | audio2/22: "Understanding public protests in Egypt and Iran: What is similar, what is different." Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media with Hoochang Chehabi, professor of international relations and history at Boston University, and Nazila Fathi, reporter for The New York Times and currently a Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
2/16: "Wind Energy: Which Way Does the Media Wind Blow?" Clean Energy and the Media Series with environment reporters Beth Daley, The Boston Globe, and Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center; Discussant Henry Lee, Belfer ENRP Program. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Audio2/15: "Are Colbert, Stewart and Leno Just Kidding? The covert power of political humor and mock journalism." Otto Santa Ana, associate professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCLA.
Learn more2/7: A Conversation with Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC Universal.
Learn more | audio2/1: "Taking Stock of Cambodia 20 Years after the Paris Peace Agreement." Herbert C. Kelman Series on International Conflict with Kevin Doyle, editor-in-chief of The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh and 2011 Nieman Fellow; Stephen Marks, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Shorenstein Center.
1/19: The Shorenstein Center announces its 2011 Spring Fellows: Bob Calo, UC Berkeley; Alexis Gelber, formerly, Newsweek; Wajahat S. Khan, Dawn News TV (Pakistan); Neil Lewis, formerly, The New York Times; Sandy Rowe, formerly, The Oregonian.
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