A discussion with Alec Ross, Senior Adviser, Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Moderated by Susan Crawford, Visiting Stanton Professor. Co-sponsored by Tech{for}Change.
Alec Ross on Using Digital Skills for Careers in Government Read More »
April 3, 2012 – President Obama is less comfortable with exercising power publicly than privately, said David Ignatius, associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post, at a Shorenstein Center event. “As covert Commander-in-Chief, [Obama] has been quite effective,” he continued. While he is “reticent, reluctant to use the public political tools of power, in private…he
Post‘s Ignatius: Obama is ‘idealist learning to be realist’ Read More »
April 2, 2012 – Discussion with Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas. Moderated by Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership. Watch the video:
Leadership and the Internet with Jared Cohen Read More »
March 28, 2012 – Featuring panelists Susan Chira, assistant managing editor for news of The New York Times; Charlie Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost; Phil Bennett, managing editor of Frontline. Moderated by Alex Jones, Director of the Shorenstein Center. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy,
A Tribute to Anthony Shadid Read More »
March 26, 2012 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Kevin Ryan, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center; and Simon Saradzhyan, Fellow, Belfer Center. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Shorenstein Center.
Russia’s Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century Read More »
March 7, 2012 – Speaker Series with Scott Heiferman, CEO and a co-founder of Meetup.org. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/scott-heiferman-meetup-and-the-bottom-up-revolutio
Scott Heiferman: ‘Meetup and the Bottom-up Revolution in Politics’ Read More »
March 7, 2012 — The Goldsmith Seminar featured a panel discussion with Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian and Goldsmith Career Award winner, and the winners and finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/goldsmith-seminar-on-the-present-and-future-of-inv
Goldsmith Seminar on Present and Future of Investigative Reporting Read More »
At the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony on March 6, the winner of the Prize for Investigative Reporting was announced, and Alan Rusbridger of The Guardian delivered the keynote speech.
2012 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony Read More »
February 27, 2012 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Pir Zubair Shah, Reporter for the New York Times and Nieman Fellow; and David Greenway, Shorenstein Fellow and contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune and GlobalPost.
Pakistan and the U.S.: Ships Passing in the Night Read More »
February 24, 2012 – Wadah Khanfar, president of the Sharq Forum, an international think tank focused on political and economic development in the Arab world, and former director general of the Al Jazeera network. Learn more
One Year after Mubarak: The Past and Future of the ‘Arab Spring’ Read More »
February 14, 2012 — The Tea Party movement shares “striking similarities” to the online progressive movement of 2004–2005, said Matt Bai, chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. Bai spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how these two movements illustrate a decentralization in American politics. Technology has played a substantial role in both
‘Flash’ politics value outsiders over experts, says Matt Bai Read More »
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