2011

NYU’s Clay Shirky Gives Lecture on Press Freedom

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October 14, 2011 – Clay Shirky, NYU professor of new media, delivers the 2011 Richard Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press for the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/nyus-clay-shirky-salant-lecture-at-harvard-kennedy Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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YouTube’s Steve Grove and Princeton’s Anne-Marie Slaughter

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October 14, 2011 – Steve Grove, head of News and Politics at YouTube, spoke with Anne-Marie Slaughter of Princeton University, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/youtubes-steve-grove-and-princetons-anne-marie-sla Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin and PBS’ Miles O’Brien

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October 14, 2011 – Xeni Jardin, founding partner and co-editor of Boing Boing, spoke with Miles O’Brien, science correspondent, PBS NewsHour, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/boing-boings-xeni-jardin-and-pbs-miles-obrien Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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New Yorker’s Ken Auletta with ex-US CIO Vivek Kundra

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October 14, 2011 – Ken Auletta, New Yorker columnist, spoke with Vivek Kundra, Former U.S. Chief Information Officer, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/shorenstein-25-new-yorkers-ken-auletta-with-exus-c Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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Kalb traces Vietnam influence on White House policy

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October 11, 2011 — The founding director of the Shorenstein Center, Marvin Kalb, author of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, revisited the Center to talk about how a lost war still influences White House war policy. Kalb’s book, which he co-wrote with his daughter Deborah Kalb, poses the question:

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Hart: Polling shows uncertainty, ‘revulsion’ among voters

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October 6, 2011 — “Times have never been tougher or bleaker,” said Peter Hart, chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, at an event sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and Institute of Politics. After 50 years of public opinion polling, Hart said that he has “never felt less certain of the outcome than I do

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Fineman describes HuffPost-AOL as ‘news community’

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October 4, 2011 — Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post-AOL Media Group and contributing news analyst to NBC and MSNBC, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “HuffPost, the Web and the Campaign of 2012.” “What AOL/Huffington Post wants to be,” Fineman explained, “is the best combination of news and community on the web.”

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Age of Greed blames Wall Street ‘in league’ with Washington

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September 27, 2011 — Wall Street and Washington share responsibility for the current economic crisis, according to Jeff Madrick, who discussed his new book Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, at the Shorenstein Center. Madrick, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and

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NPR’s new journalism: @acarvin as anchor, tweeps as newsroom

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Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist at NPR, spoke with Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones and took questions at a brownbag lunch at the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.

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CNN’s Yellin sees role as providing context and insight

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September 13, 2011 — At the first installment of the Fall semester speaker series, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Jessica Yellin, Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, to speak about “Covering the White House in a Bare-knuckled Media Culture.” Yellin outlined several “hazards” of working in cable news. First, the “rise of everyone as a reporter”

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