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March 9, 2011 — Facebook executives Sheryl Sandberg and Elliot Schrage attracted nearly 200 Kennedy School students to an early-morning discussion on how social media is transforming political organizing, the right to free speech, and corporate social responsibility. With social networks arguably playing as significant a role in revolutionary movements in the Middle East as […]

March 8, 2011 — On the morning after the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony, the winners and finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting gathered to discuss the stories behind the stories: the dedication, work and hard questions that went into each investigation. The winners of the Goldsmith Prize, Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las

February 28, 2011 – PON Film Series Presents: Knocking with a discussion with film producer and director Joel Engardio. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Joan Shorenstein Center.

February 23, 2011 – Clean Energy and the Media Series with Alan Boyle, MSNBC.com science editor, and Bryan Walsh, Time magazine environment reporter. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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,

February 16, 2011 – Clean Energy and the Media Series with environment reporters Beth Daley, The Boston Globe, and Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center; Discussant Henry Lee, Belfer ENRP Program. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Audio

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

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

January 19, 2011 – The Shorenstein Center announces its 2011 Spring Fellows: Bob Calo, UC Berkeley; Alexis Gelber, formerly, Newsweek; Wajahat S. Khan, Dawn News TV (Pakistan); Neil Lewis, formerly, The New York Times; Sandy Rowe, formerly, The Oregonian. Learn More; Press release.

December 9, 2010 – Screening of Inside Job followed by a discussion with Charles Ferguson, director and producer; founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

December 7, 2010 – Herbert C. Kelman Series on International Conflict with Paul Bricker, Colonel in the United States Army and Weatherhead Center Fellow; and Abdul Waheed Wafa, reporter for The New York Times in Kabul, Afghanistan and Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law