2011

Sunlight Foundation seeks transparency through technology

March 1, 2011 — Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, spoke at a Shorenstein Center event about “Tools for Democracy: Information for the Body Politic.” In introducing Miller, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones described the Sunlight Foundation as “one of those journalistic enterprises…that you can think of genuinely as moral […]

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CPJ’s Joel Simon: ‘Future of press freedom is online’

February 22, 2011 — At a Shorenstein Center event, “From the Front Lines to Online,” Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), looked at the past year in press freedom. He focused on CPJ’s recent publication of Attacks on the Press, a worldwide survey of the mistreatment of journalists in 2010.

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Understanding public protests in Egypt and Iran: What is similar, what is different

February 22, 2011 – 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,

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Sociolinguist says political humor ‘problematic for journalism’

February 15, 2011 — Otto Santa Ana, an associate professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the “covert power of political humor and mock journalism.” In particular, he examined the roles of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jay Leno in political comedic discourse. A sociolinguist

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AOL purchase of Huff Post a ‘step forward,’ says former NBC head

February 7, 2011 — The Shorenstein Center welcomed Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC Universal, to a conversation with Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director. With the recent announcement of AOL‘s acquisition of the Huffington Post, the discussion centered around the future of the news in online and television formats. Zucker said that

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Taking Stock of Cambodia 20 Years after the Paris Peace Agreement

February 1, 2011 – 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

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