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December 1, 2009 — As ProPublica‘s editor of distributed reporting, Amanda Michel differentiated between “networked newsgathering” and “citizen journalism” at a Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk. According to Michel, “the term ‘citizen journalist’ has done a real disservice” to the journalism profession. It has “evoked a platonic ideal of someone who is a substitute good … someone […]

November 17, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-TN), gave an overview of a politician’s perspective of the media. Addressing the question of new media competing with traditional news organizations, Ford said that the advantage of new

November 16, 2009 – A conversation with Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and Democratic nominee for president in 1988, and Renee Loth, The Boston Globe. Moderated by Dan Okrent, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

November 10, 2009 – Kelman Lecture with Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

November 10, 2009 — U.S. managing editor of Financial Times, Chrystia Freeland, spoke at the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch on “Business and International Coverage for a Paying U.S. Audience.” Freeland began with a quote from Warren Buffett: “If cable and satellite broadcasting as well as the Internet had come along first, newspapers as we know

November 9, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Journalism’s Roving Eye: American Newsgathering Abroad,” John M. Hamilton, Dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, traced the historical and current state of foreign journalism. Hamilton said that “historically, foreign news has always, always been in short supply,” with the exception of

November 3, 2009 — Kathleen Parker spoke at the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch about “The Problem with Punditry,” drawing on her experience as a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Writers Group. Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones introduced Parker as one who “thinks for herself, writes like a dream,” but Parker called herself a

November 2, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Susan Crawford, Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, spoke about “Analog Policy to Digital Policy: Hope and Change.” Crawford noted how Obama’s November 2007 policy agenda on technology and innovation recognized the “essential nature of high-speed communications infrastructure to economic

October 29, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center presented an executive session on “How to Make Money in News: New Business Models for the 21st Century,” funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Read the Transcript (unedited) The first panel, “Reflections by Carnegie Researchers on New Business Models for News,” featured Robert Giles

October 27, 2009 — Politico editor-in-chief, John Harris, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch about “Barack Obama vs. the Freak Show: Politics and Media on the Wild Frontier.” Harris, a veteran of The Washington Post who founded Politico in 2007 together with Jim VandeHei, traced the shift from what he called the “old order”

October 26, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with David Hoffman, contributing editor, The Washington Post. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs.

October 20, 2009 — In a Shorenstein Center discussion, Jim Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs, referred to his own experiences at the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Daily News to talk about the future of the newspaper business. Hoge outlined two categories of essential news: accountability journalism, in which the “conduct of public affairs”

October 16, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with Dale Mezzacappa, award-winning education reporter and president of the Education Writers Association. Moderated by IOP Fellow Gina Glantz. Co-sponsored by the Communications and Media Professional Interest Council (PIC) and Education PIC.

October 14, 2009 —Time magazine columnist Joe Klein was introduced at the Shorenstein brown-bag lunch by Director Alex S. Jones as “deeply informed, outspoken, clear thinking,” in covering the “troublesome parts of world affairs.” Klein spoke on Obama’s foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iran, describing his own experiences in that part of the world as

October 13, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Major Garrett, senior White House correspondent for Fox News, discussed covering a historic campaign and presidency, and the “public feud” between the White House communications office and his network. The feud concerns a statement from White House communications director Anita Dunn about Fox News. Garrett

October 6, 2009 – Discussion with Ibrahim Barzaq, correspondent, The Associated Press and Nieman Fellow and Gabriella Blum, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.