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 »
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
Facebook executives share insight at Harvard Kennedy School Read More »
March 8, 2011 — David Sanger said he would “hardly argue that WikiLeaks was the cause of the uprisings” in the Middle East, “but it may have been one of the triggering events.” At a Shorenstein Center event entitled “From WikiLeaks to Cairo: Six Months That Changed International Reporting,” Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The
David Sanger defends Times’ decision to publish WikiLeaks Read More »
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
Goldsmith Seminar looks at the future of reporting Read More »
March 7, 2011 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las Vegas Sun by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for their investigative report “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas.” Watch the video. Read the transcript
Las Vegas Sun’s Allen and Richards win Goldsmith Prize Read More »
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
Sunlight Foundation seeks transparency through technology Read More »
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.
Film Series: Knocking Read More »
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.
The Long Road to Electric Cars: Green Hope or Media Hype? Read More »
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.
CPJ’s Joel Simon: ‘Future of press freedom is online’ Read More »
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,
Understanding public protests in Egypt and Iran: What is similar, what is different Read More »
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
Wind Energy: Which Way Does the Media Wind Blow? Read More »
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
Sociolinguist says political humor ‘problematic for journalism’ Read More »
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
AOL purchase of Huff Post a ‘step forward,’ says former NBC head Read More »
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
Taking Stock of Cambodia 20 Years after the Paris Peace Agreement Read More »
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.
The Shorenstein Center announces its 2011 Spring Fellows Read More »
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