March 9, 2010 — The military and the media have a “complex relationship,” said Daphne Benoit, Pentagon correspondent for Agence France Press (AFP), at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event. They need each other but have “conflicting interests.” The media values transparency, facts that can be verified and a quick turnaround of stories. The military, on […]
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March 6, 2010 — The Gov 2.0 Camp New England went a long way toward proving that “spontaneous” and “organized” aren’t mutually exclusive terms. Described as an “unconference,” the event brought together a wide range of participants, including government employees, contractors, and officials; students from the Harvard Kennedy School, MIT, Tufts, and beyond; academics and
Gov 2.0 brings together students, government, technologists Read More »
March 4, 2010 — Not so long ago it appeared that a U.S. cap-and-trade bill was well on its way to becoming reality. But then came the “climategate” emails and increased political opposition, particularly in the Senate, to taking action. While public worries over the impacts of climate change had once been climbing, they’ve since
Panel: Climate coverage difficult, but journalists shouldn’t opt out Read More »
March 2, 2010 – John Heilemann and Mark Halperin discuss their new book, Game Change. Heilemann, a graduate of the Kennedy School, is national political correspondent and columnist for New York Magazine. Halperin, former IOP and Shorenstein Fellow, is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine. Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics.
March 2, 2010 — At a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event, Greg Zuckerman, senior writer and Heard on the Street columnist at The Wall Street Journal, shared lessons and observations from his book, The Greatest Trade Ever. Zuckerman presented a paradox that “it should have been the experts who saw this coming — the Wall Street
WSJ’s Zuckerman: ‘Outliers’ saw what Wall Street experts missed Read More »
February 25, 2009 – Discussion with reporters from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: Vanessa Gezari, Jason Motlagh and Nir Rosen. Moderated by Jon Sawyer, executive director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Co-sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and
Afghanistan: The Human Factor Read More »
February 23, 2009 – “Understanding Chavez.” Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict, and the News Media with Boris Munoz, editor in chief, Exceso Magazine and Nieman Fellow and Leonardo Vivas, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School of Government. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and
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February 23, 2010 — The Economist’s American business editor and New York bureau chief, Matthew Bishop, spoke at the Shorenstein Center on the media and the economic crisis. He opened with the statement that on September 15, 2008, the date Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, “capitalism as we knew it ended, and a debate ought to
Economist’s Bishop posits theories for media’s ‘procyclical tendency’ Read More »
February 16, 2010 — Deborah Amos, Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center and foreign correspondent for NPR, recounted the recent political history of Iraq at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event titled “Sectarianism and a Post-Election Iraq.” Amos decided to be a “stay-behind reporter and continue looking at Iraq” after much U.S. attention turned to
Iraq is ‘shedding its diversity,’ says NPR’s Deborah Amos Read More »
February 11, 2010 — To hold a conference on the future of journalism education, the Carnegie Corporation and Knight Foundation chose a stronghold of journalism, New York City. The venue was the Paley Center for Media and the occasion, “A Way Forward: Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier.” The conference brought together deans, educators
Carnegie-Knight conference looks at future of journalism education Read More »
February 5, 2010 — David Rohde, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times and a former Shorenstein Fellow, spoke to the Shorenstein Center on “Pakistan’s Role in the Rise of the New Taliban.” Having escaped from the Taliban after seven months of captivity in Pakistan, Rohde argued that the central problem is the
David Rohde says security is needed for progress in Pakistan Read More »
February 4, 2010 — The first of three Shorenstein Center/Belfer Center seminars on news coverage of climate change, “The Public Divide over Climate Change: Scientists, Skeptics and the Media,” was itself a lively debate. The panel featured Andrew C. Revkin of the New York Times‘ Dot Earth blog, Matthew Nisbet of American University, and Tom
Revkin: Climate change information must come from outside journalism Read More »
February 2, 2010 — “Why not?” is the question that lies at the foundation of Google’s engineering, said Ken Auletta in a Shorenstein Center discussion about his new book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. Auletta, who writes the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker, described a landscape where
‘Google’s success is based on trust,’ says Ken Auletta Read More »
Stephen Williams Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2009 Executive Editor, Asia Pacific Region, BBC Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Introduction “Well, of course you’re from MI6. You’re a spy.” … “Pass the pomegranate juice, please.” The accusation was made to the director of the BBC’s World Service, Nigel Chapman. He and I and the BBC’s
John G. Geer Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2009 Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Summary “Ads are about news coverage these days.” Mark McKinnon, November 2009 The rise of negativity in presidential campaigns is well documented. Few doubt that attacks ads are more common in campaigns today than
Bill Mitchell Sagan Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Fall 2009 Leader of News Transformation & International Programs, The Poynter Institute Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Summary This paper concludes that it’s too soon in journalism’s chaotic transition from analog to digital to settle on long-term business models. But it argues that the best path to discovering
Clues in the Rubble: A User-First Framework for Sustaining Local News Read More »
Loen Kelley Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2009 Television Producer Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt Introduction Ever since Google’s web spiders began crawling the Internet, people who care about the news have been trying to figure out how to save journalism. Most of the focus has been on the newspaper industry, but the broadcast television
Frenemies: Network News and YouTube Read More »
January 29, 2010 — Two winners of the Goldsmith Book Prize and six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The winner of the investigative reporting prize, which carries a cash award of
2010 Goldsmith book prizes, reporting finalists announced Read More »
January 26, 2010 – The fellows are Deborah Amos, NPR; Steven Dong, Tsinghua University; Gene Gibbons, Stateline.org; and Peter Maass, The New York Times Magazine. Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University, will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Press release
Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for spring 2010 Read More »
December 8, 2009 – Kelman Seminar with Eileen Babbitt, Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law
The Role of Track I Actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq Read More »
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