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September 15, 2009 — To kick off the fall brown-bag speaker series, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Candy Crowley, CNN‘s senior political correspondent. Introducing Crowley, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones said that she “stands for a kind of journalism that is genuinely endangered but that she fulfills at its highest level.” The title of Crowley’s […]

September 8, 2009 – Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for fall 2009. Learn more; press release

May 6, 2009 — Zephyr Teachout, visiting assistant professor of law at Duke University, spoke at the Shorenstein Center about the crumbling barriers to the globalization of electioneering. Teachout began her talk, “The Future of ‘Internet Campaigning’: The Globalization of Local Elections,” by looking at the barriers that until recently have limited foreign influence in

May 5, 2009 – A conversation with Rory Stewart, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Hosted by the Shorenstein Center, the Nieman Foundation, the Weatherhead Center and the Program on Negotiation.

April 28, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center, together with the Knight Science Fellowship program and MIT, presented “The Future of Science Journalism,” a forum at the third-annual Cambridge Science Festival, held at the MIT Museum. Introductory remarks were given by Dr. Susan Hockfield, president of MIT. Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times,

April 28, 2009 — In a multimedia presentation at the Shorenstein Center, Philip S. Balboni demonstrated how his newest media venture is “transforming the coverage of international news in the digital age.” President and CEO of GlobalPost, Balboni is a “committed optimist” who asserts that we are “living in one of the great historic moments

April 21, 2009 — Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge magazine and contributor to The New York Review of Books, discussed “Who Caused the Crisis and What We Can Do” at the Center’s brown-bag lunch. The cause of the economic crisis, Madrick summarized, is that “we became prisoners of anti-government ideology” that was “beneficial to the

April 15, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with Richard Parker, Senior Shorenstein Fellow and Lecturer in Public Policy.

April 14, 2009 — At his Shorenstein Center talk, Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News, didn’t hide how important he felt health care reform was for America. “Up until about five years ago I spent almost all my time covering developments in clinical medicine — new breakthroughs,” Johnson said, addressing the standing-room-only crowd. “But

April 7, 2009 — Rick Kaplan kicked off his brown-bag talk, titled “The First 100 Days and the Press,” by seemingly minimizing the importance of the very thing he’d come to talk about. “There’s nothing magical about the first 100 days,” he said. “It’s a benchmark that journalists and writers have set up, because we

April 1, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer shared her experiences with “The Politics of Covering Regular People.” Reporting on ways that workers are exploited or mistreated, she has found that “most people want to make a difference, but they don’t know how.”

March 17, 2009 — The brown-bag talk by Robin Sproul, Washington bureau chief for ABC News, was titled “The New Administration and Change,” but it could have as easily been “The Next 50 days.” “The biggest change [in Washington] is velocity, the speed of change that’s happening,” said Sproul, a Shorenstein Center fellow in fall

March 13, 2009 – Discussion on the U.S. economic crisis with Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy.

March 10, 2009 — As Washington correspondent for the New York Times and self-decribed “profilist” of the Obama administration, Jodi Kantor chose “Covering Obama World” as the topic of her March 10 Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk. In her remarks, she described some of the people in the new administration. To illustrate the range of personalities,

March 3, 2009 — Judging from his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Fallen Sky: Finding a Way Forward After the Media Shakeout,” New York Times media columnist David Carr is equal parts pessimist and optimist. What did Carr think of the recently announced cancellation of the 2009 newspaper editors’ convention? “An extinction event,” he said in

February 24, 2009 — Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of Slate, looked at web media and the future of journalism at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Director Alex S. Jones launched the discussion with the observation that in today’s online environment, there is “gigantic success without profitability,” citing examples such as YouTube and Facebook. The challenge facing the media

February 19, 2009 — The Harvard Club of New York was the site of a briefing for journalists on the economy and New York, sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. The guests of honor at the event were the Honorable Jon S. Corzine, governor of New Jersey, and