February 15, 2011 — Otto Santa Ana, an associate professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the “covert power of political humor and mock journalism.” In particular, he examined the roles of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jay Leno in political comedic discourse. A sociolinguist […]
Sociolinguist says political humor ‘problematic for journalism’ Read More »
February 7, 2011 — The Shorenstein Center welcomed Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC Universal, to a conversation with Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director. With the recent announcement of AOL‘s acquisition of the Huffington Post, the discussion centered around the future of the news in online and television formats. Zucker said that
AOL purchase of Huff Post a ‘step forward,’ says former NBC head Read More »
February 1, 2011 – Herbert C. Kelman Series on International Conflict with Kevin Doyle, editor-in-chief of The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh and 2011 Nieman Fellow; Stephen Marks, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Co-sponsored with
Taking Stock of Cambodia 20 Years after the Paris Peace Agreement Read More »
January 19, 2011 – The Shorenstein Center announces its 2011 Spring Fellows: Bob Calo, UC Berkeley; Alexis Gelber, formerly, Newsweek; Wajahat S. Khan, Dawn News TV (Pakistan); Neil Lewis, formerly, The New York Times; Sandy Rowe, formerly, The Oregonian. Learn More; Press release.
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Charles Gibson Shorenstein Center Reidy Fellow, Fall 2010 Former anchor, ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt It should not be surprising that long-time members of Congress talk nostalgically about “the old days” when friendships between Democrats and Republicans were commonplace, not the exception but the rule. They tell the
Restoring Comity to Congress Read More »
Karen Rothmyer Shorenstein Center Fellow, Fall 2010 Contributing Editor, The Nation Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: Seeing Africa Whole: An introduction And now for some good news out of Africa. Since 1995, the rate of poverty throughout the continent has been falling steadily, and much faster than previously thought, according to a study released
They Wanted Journalists to Say ‘Wow’: How NGOs Affect U.S. Media Coverage of Africa Read More »
December 9, 2010 – Screening of Inside Job followed by a discussion with Charles Ferguson, director and producer; founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Screening of Inside Job followed by a discussion with Charles Ferguson Read More »
December 7, 2010 – Herbert C. Kelman Series on International Conflict with Paul Bricker, Colonel in the United States Army and Weatherhead Center Fellow; and Abdul Waheed Wafa, reporter for The New York Times in Kabul, Afghanistan and Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law
The Afghan Challenge: What Will It Take for Them to Trust Their Own Security Forces? Read More »
December 7, 2010 — Husband and wife co-authors David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill joined the Shorenstein Center to discuss their new book, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides, an account of the couple’s experience during Rohde’s seven-month captivity by the Taliban. Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times
Rohde and Mulvihill share two sides of a Taliban kidnapping Read More »
November 30, 2010 — At a Shorenstein Center event, Cheryl Contee, partner at Fission Strategy and co-founder of the political blog Jack & Jill Politics, explored the “Rise of African-American Online Political Influentials.” Contee said that she sees herself not as a figure of the media or of politics, but as “a concerned citizen working toward
Cheryl Contee describes ‘Harlem Renaissance 2.0’ Read More »
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