October 14, 2011 – Dan Okrent, writer and editor, spoke with Adam Moss, editor-in-chief, New York magazine, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/author-dan-okrent-and-ny-mags-adam-moss Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 14, 2011 – New York Times columnist David Carr speaks with Harvard/NYU’s danah boyd, also senior researcher at Microsoft Research, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. A full transcript of the conversation between Carr and boyd can be downloaded here. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/nytimes-david-carr-and-danah-boyd Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center.
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October 14, 2011 – Rebecca MacKinnon of the New America Foundation and Global Voices spoke with Abderrahim Foukara, Washington bureau chief, Al Jazeera, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/global-voices-rebecca-mackinnon-and-al-jazeeras Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 14, 2011 – Clay Shirky, NYU professor of new media, delivers the 2011 Richard Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press for the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/nyus-clay-shirky-salant-lecture-at-harvard-kennedy Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 14, 2011 – Steve Grove, head of News and Politics at YouTube, spoke with Anne-Marie Slaughter of Princeton University, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/youtubes-steve-grove-and-princetons-anne-marie-sla Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 14, 2011 – Xeni Jardin, founding partner and co-editor of Boing Boing, spoke with Miles O’Brien, science correspondent, PBS NewsHour, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/boing-boings-xeni-jardin-and-pbs-miles-obrien Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 14, 2011 – Ken Auletta, New Yorker columnist, spoke with Vivek Kundra, Former U.S. Chief Information Officer, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/shorenstein-25-new-yorkers-ken-auletta-with-exus-c Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.
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October 11, 2011 — The founding director of the Shorenstein Center, Marvin Kalb, author of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, revisited the Center to talk about how a lost war still influences White House war policy. Kalb’s book, which he co-wrote with his daughter Deborah Kalb, poses the question:
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October 6, 2011 — “Times have never been tougher or bleaker,” said Peter Hart, chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, at an event sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and Institute of Politics. After 50 years of public opinion polling, Hart said that he has “never felt less certain of the outcome than I do
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October 4, 2011 — Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post-AOL Media Group and contributing news analyst to NBC and MSNBC, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “HuffPost, the Web and the Campaign of 2012.” “What AOL/Huffington Post wants to be,” Fineman explained, “is the best combination of news and community on the web.”
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September 27, 2011 — Wall Street and Washington share responsibility for the current economic crisis, according to Jeff Madrick, who discussed his new book Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, at the Shorenstein Center. Madrick, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and
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Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist at NPR, spoke with Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones and took questions at a brownbag lunch at the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
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