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 […]
Hart: Polling shows uncertainty, ‘revulsion’ among voters Read More »
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.”
Fineman describes HuffPost-AOL as ‘news community’ Read More »
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
Age of Greed blames Wall Street ‘in league’ with Washington Read More »
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.
NPR’s new journalism: @acarvin as anchor, tweeps as newsroom Read More »
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”
CNN’s Yellin sees role as providing context and insight Read More »
Bob Calo Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2011 Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: Journalists, by and large, regard the “crisis” as something that happened to them, and not anything they did. It was the Internet that jumbled the informational sensitivities of their readers, corporate ownership that raised suspicions
Disengaged: Elite Media in a Vernacular Nation Read More »
May 17, 2011 — Congress must adopt a “balanced strategy” to address the country’s long-term fiscal health and avert the looming crisis over the national debt limit, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner at an event hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Watch the video. Read the transcript (PDF).
Geithner: Confidence more expensive to recover than keep Read More »
April 26, 2011 – “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.
South Africa: Press, Politics and Development in the Post-Apartheid Era Read More »
Alexis Gelber Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2011 Formerly, Newsweek magazine Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama emerged as the champion of new media by using social networking tools in innovative ways to turn on and turn out young voters. Since then, some of most visible and creative
Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network Read More »
Sandy Rowe Shorenstein Center Knight Fellow, Fall 2010 & Spring 2011 Former editor, The Oregonian, Portland Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: Anyone who thinks there’s an easy rescue in sight for rebuilding local investigative reporting capacity is wrong. Newspapers, traditionally the source of most investigative coverage in communities, will not be able to restaff
Partners of Necessity: The Case for Collaboration in Local Investigative Reporting Read More »
April 20, 2011 — Vivian Schiller, former CEO and president of National Public Radio, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how public and commercial news organizations can learn from each other to be successful and relevant in the future. As veteran of both for-profit and non-profit media, and currently “on the sidelines,” Schiller offered advice
Schiller urges commercial media to ’embrace audience as partners’ Read More »
April 12, 2011 — Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times assistant business and financial editor and columnist, has some good things to say about the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation act, but the list is short. Enacted after the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the bill’s stated intent is to reform Wall Street and protect consumers. The resulting legislation is far
Morgenson: With Dodd-Frank, next crisis will come sooner, not later Read More »
April 7, 2011 – 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.
Undermining Our Own Security: U.S. Policies in the Middle East and Beyond Read More »
April 6, 2011 – 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.
The Changing Role of the Media: A View from Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street Read More »
April 5, 2011 — Caroline Tolbert has been researching and tracking digital literacy in the United States. As professor of political science at the University of Iowa, she studies the divide between the availability of Internet access and use of the Internet. Tolbert presented her research at the Shorenstein Center, and revealed the many barriers
Tolbert traces digital inequality to lack of skills and money Read More »
April 4, 2011 — Emily Bell previously worked at the Guardian News and Media as director of digital content and has recently taken a position at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism as director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. She spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the importance of bringing in experts outside
Emily Bell looks outside the field to ‘remake fourth estate’ Read More »
March 29, 2011 – 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
The Military and the Media: Two Perspectives—Iraq and Pakistan Read More »
March 29, 2011 — The problematic American democratic system is the subject of a new book by Eric Alterman, Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama. Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; columnist for The Nation; and regular contributor to The Daily Beast, spoke at the
Alterman: U.S. democracy obstructs progressive change Read More »
March 23, 2011 – 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 more
In the Shadow of the Japan Crisis: The Seesaw Coverage of Nuclear Power Read More »
March 22, 2011 — At a Shorenstein Center event, Donna Byrd, publisher of The Root, shared her experience in growing and engaging an online community. Byrd opened with a brief history of The Root. It was the “brainchild” of Washington Post Company chairman Donald Graham and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates who in 2007 looked at
The Root’s Donna Byrd: How to grow online communities Read More »
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