A paper by Wajahat S. Khan, spring 2011 fellow, examines the media coverage following the assassination of Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer, from international journalists, oped writers, bloggers, social networkers, the governor’s friends and his critics. The paper charts the course of the follow-up reporting, analysis and campaigning on Pakistani media in the wake of one […]
November 1, 2011 — Dan Wasserman, editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe, describes himself as a “savage” and part of an “endangered species.” The reason there are “fewer than 50” editorial cartoonists today, he said at a Shorenstein Center event, is because of their “loss of habitat: a shrinkage in newspapers willing to put up
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October 26, 2011 — “Debates matter,” said Institute of Politics Director Trey Grayson, in introducing Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, at an event co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the IOP. Grayson cited the example of Texas Governor Rick Perry whose poll ratings have dropped after appearances in GOP presidential
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October 25, 2011 — To discuss the impact of technology on citizen and state dynamics, 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, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the Arab
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October 24, 2011 – 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
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October 15, 2011 – A conversation with Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico, and Mark McKinnon, global vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton and Public Strategies, and president of Maverick Media. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/gop-communications-strategist-mark-mckinnon-and-po Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 15, 2011 – Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, speaks with Joichi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/columbias-emily-bell-and-mits-joichi-ito Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 14, 2011 – Dan Okrent, writer and editor, spoke with Adam Moss, editor-in-chief, New York magazine, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/author-dan-okrent-and-ny-mags-adam-moss Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 14, 2011 – New York Times columnist David Carr speaks with Harvard/NYU’s danah boyd, also senior researcher at Microsoft Research, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. A full transcript of the conversation between Carr and boyd can be downloaded here. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/nytimes-david-carr-and-danah-boyd Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center.
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October 14, 2011 – Rebecca MacKinnon of the New America Foundation and Global Voices spoke with Abderrahim Foukara, Washington bureau chief, Al Jazeera, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/global-voices-rebecca-mackinnon-and-al-jazeeras Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
Global Voices/New America’s Rebecca MacKinnon and Al Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara Read More »
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