Past Events
Blogs cause stories to ‘rise faster and die faster,’ says Kaus
November 1, 2006 — At his Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, journalist Mickey Kaus chose to speak about the impact of the “blogosphere” on American politics. Kaus maintained that due to the rapid pace of political blogging, today, pieces of political…
Lighthouse or Street Lamp? Illuminating Reporting in a Global World of Shrinking Bureaus
October 31, 2006 – “Lighthouse or Street Lamp? Illuminating Reporting in a Global World of Shrinking Bureaus.” Brown-bag lunch with Karen Elliott House, former senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company and former publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
Russian journalist Kiselev moves from TV to online news
October 24, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Russian journalist Evgeni Kiselev discussed declining press freedom under Russia’s current president, Vladimir Putin. In 2001, Kiselev — then a reporter for NTV, Russia’s first independent television news organization —…
Peter Hart offers sneak peek at latest election poll
October 18, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Peter D. Hart, one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States, offered a sneak preview of the numbers in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, which…
Chandrasekaran reports on war zone in Iraq
October 16, 2006 — Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post and the author of Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, discussed the challenges and risks of reporting from a war zone, at the…
Panel: “New Media and News: Peering Over the Horizon.”
October 13, 2006 – Panel: “New Media and News: Peering Over the Horizon.” Moderator: Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com, City University of New York; Michael Kinsley, Slate and the Guardian; Rebecca MacKinnon, Global…
Panel: “Traditional News Media: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism.”
October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Traditional News Media: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism.” Moderator: Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: John Carroll, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, Knight Visiting Lecturer; Rick Kaplan, formerly of MSNBC and CNN-US; Bill Marimow, National Public…
Panel: “Media and Democracy.”
October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Media and Democracy.” Moderator: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Main presenter: Nik Gowing, BBC World, former Shorenstein Fellow. Panelists: Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker, former Shorenstein Fellow; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg…
Panel: “Newspapers and Industry Transformation.”
October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Newspapers and Industry Transformation.” Introduction by Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment. With Scott Anthony, Innosight, and co-author of Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Audio
Shorenstein Center celebrates 20th anniversary
October 13–14, 2006 — How the media impacts politics and policy decision-making has been the subject of intense conjecture and debate for decades. The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy was founded in 1986 to address…