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The Military and the Media: Two Perspectives—Iraq and Pakistan

March 29, 2011 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media with Wajahat Khan, Shorenstein Fellow and broadcast and print journalist in Pakistan; and Emma Sky, Institute of Politics Fellow and former political advisor to General Ray T. Odierno, in Iraq. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation […]

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Alterman: U.S. democracy obstructs progressive change

March 29, 2011 — The problematic American democratic system is the subject of a new book by Eric Alterman, Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama. Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; columnist for The Nation; and regular contributor to The Daily Beast, spoke at the

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The Root’s Donna Byrd: How to grow online communities

March 22, 2011 — At a Shorenstein Center event, Donna Byrd, publisher of The Root, shared her experience in growing and engaging an online community. Byrd opened with a brief history of The Root. It was the “brainchild” of Washington Post Company chairman Donald Graham and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates who in 2007 looked at

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Facebook executives share insight at Harvard Kennedy School

March 9, 2011 — Facebook executives Sheryl Sandberg and Elliot Schrage attracted nearly 200 Kennedy School students to an early-morning discussion on how social media is transforming political organizing, the right to free speech, and corporate social responsibility. With social networks arguably playing as significant a role in revolutionary movements in the Middle East as

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David Sanger defends Times’ decision to publish WikiLeaks

March 8, 2011 — David Sanger said he would “hardly argue that WikiLeaks was the cause of the uprisings” in the Middle East, “but it may have been one of the triggering events.” At a Shorenstein Center event entitled “From WikiLeaks to Cairo: Six Months That Changed International Reporting,” Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The

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Las Vegas Sun’s Allen and Richards win Goldsmith Prize

March 7, 2011 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las Vegas Sun by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for their investigative report “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas.” Watch the video. Read the transcript

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Sunlight Foundation seeks transparency through technology

March 1, 2011 — Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, spoke at a Shorenstein Center event about “Tools for Democracy: Information for the Body Politic.” In introducing Miller, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones described the Sunlight Foundation as “one of those journalistic enterprises…that you can think of genuinely as moral

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CPJ’s Joel Simon: ‘Future of press freedom is online’

February 22, 2011 — At a Shorenstein Center event, “From the Front Lines to Online,” Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), looked at the past year in press freedom. He focused on CPJ’s recent publication of Attacks on the Press, a worldwide survey of the mistreatment of journalists in 2010.

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