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October 4, 2007 – Liberian journalists visit Shorenstein Center.

October 2, 2007 – Brown-bag lunch with Peter Kann, formerly with Dow Jones.

September 25, 2007 – The Kalb Report: Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, joins veteran journalist and scholar Marvin Kalb to discuss democracy and the press in the first installment of the 2007–2008 Kalb Report series.

September 25, 2007 – “Landscape for the White House 2008.” Brown-bag lunch with political analyst Amy Walter.

September 18, 2007 – “Politics as Entertainment: The Softening of Presidential Campaign Coverage.” Brown-bag lunch with media critic Bill Powers, National Journal.

September 10, 2007 – Shorenstein Center announces fall 2007 fellows. Learn more; Press Release

May 5, 2007 — The Shorenstein Center contributed to the Kennedy School’s annual spring conference on May 5 by hosting a panel discussion titled “The Role of the Media in the Discussion of Global Warming.” The panel fit into the larger theme of the conference, titled “The Looming Crises: Can We Act in Time?” The

April 30, 2007 — At a brown-bag lunch sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, focused on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Sanger recalled his early encounters with Bush, stating that “it did not strike me at the

April 28, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference — Beijing Olympics 2008.” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

April 23, 2007 — Sylvia Poggioli, Senior Foreign Correspondent for NPR’s foreign desk and former Shorenstein Fellow, spoke at the center’s brown-bag lunch about European media reactions to foreign news and U.S. policies. She also discussed some of the differing philosophical attitudes on gun control, immigration, terrorism, the death penalty (which is banned in the

April 21, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference — Soldier Media.” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

April 18, 2007 — Mike McCurry, former press secretary for President Clinton, offered his perspective as a former White House spokesman at a brown-bag lunch hosted by the Shorenstein Center. McCurry qualified his remarks at the outset by stating that “the job has no bearing now” to the position he held more than 10 years

April 17, 2007 — At a brown-bag lunch sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Women and Public Policy Program, E.J. Graff, a senior researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, focused on debunking the “opt-out myth,” which refers to a woman’s decision to give up her career in favor of full-time

April 16, 2007 – “Following President Bush.” Brown-bag lunch with Brooks Kraft, a photojournalist based in Washington, D.C., assigned to photograph President Bush and the White House staff for Time magazine.

April 14, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference: Youth Activism” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

April 11, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Carol Darr, director of the Institute of Politics, Democracy and the Internet at the George Washington University, offered her perspective on how new technologies are “democratizing democracy.” Darr asserted that the Internet has empowered a new group of political activists. “The Internet has lowered the

April 9, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Mark Halperin, political analyst for ABC News and joint visiting fellow with the Shorenstein Center and Institute of Politics, spoke on the mainstream media’s coverage of the upcoming election cycle. Halperin said he holds two fundamental beliefs about political press coverage: first, “the press plays

April 4, 2007 — Through an interactive multimedia presentation at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, George Caudill, former director of advance for President Clinton, and Greg Jenkins, former director of advance for President George W. Bush, recalled their experiences of stage managing events for the world’s most powerful people. Calling himself “the man behind the

April 3, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown bag-lunch, Matt Baum, visiting associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, addressed the central question of what drives public opinion in times of foreign crises and wars. Baum asserted that public opinion tends to reflect elite rhetoric — whether of politicians themselves or the

March 19, 2007 — Michael Gerson, former policy adviser and speechwriter for President George W. Bush, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch about the moral trajectory of the Republican Party during Bush’s term of office. Gerson, who will become an op/ed writer for the Washington Post in May 2007, recounted that his first self-described