Charles Gibson Shorenstein Center Reidy Fellow, Fall 2010 Former anchor, ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt It should not be surprising that long-time members of Congress talk nostalgically about “the old days” when friendships between Democrats and Republicans were commonplace, not the exception but the rule. They tell the […]
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Karen Rothmyer Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2010 Contributing Editor, The Nation Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: Seeing Africa Whole: An introduction And now for some good news out of Africa. Since 1995, the rate of poverty throughout the continent has been falling steadily, and much faster than previously thought, according to a study released
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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.
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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
The Afghan Challenge: What Will It Take for Them to Trust Their Own Security Forces? Read More »
December 7, 2010 — Husband and wife co-authors David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill joined the Shorenstein Center to discuss their new book, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides, an account of the couple’s experience during Rohde’s seven-month captivity by the Taliban. Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times
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November 30, 2010 — At a Shorenstein Center event, Cheryl Contee, partner at Fission Strategy and co-founder of the political blog Jack & Jill Politics, explored the “Rise of African-American Online Political Influentials.” Contee said that she sees herself not as a figure of the media or of politics, but as “a concerned citizen working toward
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November 22, 2010 — The Shorenstein Center hosted a special conversation with Brit Hume, senior political analyst for Fox News. Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, moderated the conversation. Hume, who previously worked with Shorenstein Center Fellow Charlie Gibson at ABC News, left ABC to join the Fox News Network, and he said it
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November 16, 2010 – Joined by Richard Todd, Kidder’s long-time editor. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director.
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November 16, 2010 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict with Guillermo Perry, Robert F. Kennedy visiting professor at Harvard University and research associate at Fedesarrollo, Colombia; and Pablo Corral, photojournalist from Ecuador and 2010–11 Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the
What Is It Costing the U.S. to Ignore Its Relationship with Latin America? Read More »
November 15, 2010 — The Shorenstein Center hosted an event for students to discuss the economy with Douglas W. Shorenstein, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Chairman and CEO of Shorenstein Properties LLC; and T. Gary Rogers, Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, former Chairman and
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November 15, 2010 – The Kalb Report with Douglas Brinkley, historian; Sam Donaldson, ABC News; and Martha Joynt Kumar, historian. Moderated by Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus. The series is produced jointly by the George Washington University Global Media Institute, the Shorenstein Center and the National Press Club.
Scoops and Scandals: Two Centuries of Presidents and the Press Read More »
November 15, 2010 — The 2010 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Rachel Maddow‘s T.H. White Lecture. The seminar panelists were Mindy Finn, GOP online political consultant; Charles Gibson, former ABC News anchor and Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center; William Greider, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and recipient
T.H. White Seminar panelists explore political, media changes Read More »
November 14, 2010 — Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, gave the 2010 T.H. White Lecture on Press and Politics to a packed Forum on a crisp November evening. In her lecture, Maddow described the current political situation in the United States as a consequence of a system that has “decoupled winning
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November 9, 2010 — David All, founder of TechRepublican.com and president of the David All Group, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “How to Reach, Engage and Empower Brand Activists.” As an early Republican blogger on Capitol Hill, All says he “learned quickly the power of earned media,” and found that he could “create media
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November 2, 2010 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist, to discuss this year’s midterm campaign’s particular influx of political attack ads. This has been “the most expensive midterm election in the history of the country,” said Loth, with more than $4 billion spent on advertising. There has been
Globe’s Renée Loth analyzes attack ads in the 2010 midterms Read More »
November 1, 2010 — In his Shorenstein Center discussion, “Twenty-first Century Statecraft,” Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sketched the impact of technology on the historical tension between open and closed societies. Ross said there is a “contest buried within” every historical society: “the struggle between open
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October 29, 2010 – A discussion of editorial choice in the context of a lack of coverage about the Pakistan floods and their aftermath. Co-sponsored with the South Asia Initiative, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and the Harvard Pakistan Student Group.
Face to Face with Riz Khan: What Is Newsworthy? Read More »
October 28, 2010 — In reflecting on today’s media world, 2010 Salant Lecturer Marcus Brauchli looked back to the roots of the organization he leads, The Washington Post. Founded in 1877, it was just one in a universe of left- and right-leaning publications. Now, Brauchli said, “we are once again on a frontier.” As executive
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October 26, 2010 – Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times. Moderated by R. Nicholas Burns. Co-sponsored with the Future of Diplomacy Project.
Can the Euro Survive? Europe’s Scorecard in the Financial Crisis Read More »
October 26, 2010 — Board president and former executive director of MoveOn.org, Eli Pariser presented his research on “Algorithms, the News and Democracy” at a Shorenstein Center event. Introducing Pariser, Clay Shirky, Visiting Murrow Lecturer, explained that while there are “a lot of people who understand the technology really well but don’t understand the society
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