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Egypt: From Tahrir Square to Today

February 2, 2012 – A panel conversation with Mona Eltahawy, Columnist, Toronto Star, The Jerusalem Report and Politiken; Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS; and Charles Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and Co-founder, GlobalPost. Moderator: Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Cosponsored by HKS Middle East Initiative; The Open Hands Initiative; The Shorenstein Center on the […]

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Israel in The New York Times Over the Decades: A Changed Narrative and Its Impact on Jewish Readers

Neil Lewis Shorenstein Center Fellow, Spring 2011 Formerly, The New York Times Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A survey of nearly 3,000 articles in The Times about Israel over the decades from the 1960’s to recent years provides a long-range view that shows that it is a narrative with, in the broadest sense, two

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White House reporter looks at Obama’s term in office

January 31, 2012 — Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent for RealClearPolitics, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about President Obama and his administration. Simendinger outlined four areas that the president himself has identified as needing improvement: communicating effectively, focusing on what people care about, portraying a centrist image and using executive power. What he was so

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Google execs say Internet is powerful tool for data-driven policy

January 26, 2012 — The power of the Internet to influence public policy and economic growth was the topic discussed by a panel of Google policy experts at a special event for Harvard Kennedy School students hosted by the Shorenstein Center, HKS Communications Program, HKS Office of Career Advancement and the HKS student group Tech{For}Change.

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Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect

Vivek Kundra Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2011 Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets, Salesforce.com; Former U.S. Chief Information Officer Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: A Shift in Power In the information economy, data is power and we face a choice between democratizing it and holding on to it for an asymmetrical advantage. For example,

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Gone Rogue: Time to Reform the Presidential Primary Debates

Mark McKinnon Shorenstein Center Reidy Fellow, Fall 2011 Political Communications Strategist; Vice Chairman Hill+Knowlton Strategies Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: How would the course of history been altered had P.T. Barnum moderated the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858? Today’s ultimate showman and on-again, off-again presidential candidate Donald Trump invited the Republican presidential primary contenders

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The Dark Side: Reporting on the War on Terror

December 5, 2011 – Kelman Seminar with Roger Cohen, columnist, International Herald Tribune; Fisher Family Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; and Carlotta Gall, reporter covering Pakistan and Afghanistan for The New York Times; Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Joan

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Campaign 2012 transformed by GOP debates, social media, decline of TV ads, says Romney adviser

November 29, 2011 — The dynamics and landscape for campaigns in the 2012 presidential primary have shifted significantly since the last presidential election cycle in 2007–08, forcing candidates to rethink traditional strategies and uses of their resources, according to Russell J. Schriefer, senior adviser and media consultant to the Mitt Romney for President campaign. A longtime Republican

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Fighting for human rights and press freedom in Bahrain: Possibilities and Limitations

November 28, 2011 – Discussion with Dr. Mansoor al Jamri, editor-in-chief of Bahrain’s Al Wasat. Co-sponsored by Harvard Law & International Development Society, HLS Human Rights Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Islamic Legal Studies Program, HKS Middle East Initiative, Shorenstein Center, Middle Eastern Law Students Association and The Prince al Waleed bin Talal Islamic

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Media unfairly portrayed Madoff’s victims, says Times reporter

November 21, 2011 — Diana Henriques, senior financial writer at The New York Times and author of The Wizard of Lies, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how the media covered Bernie Madoff’s family and Ponzi scheme victims. She said that those who invested in Madoff’s scheme are often perceived as guilty, and are portrayed

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