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April 15, 2010 – “Oil and Conflict: A View from the Front Lines.” Discussion and media presentation with Peter Maass, Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center; and photographer Ed Kashi. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

April 15, 2010 – “Health Care Reform through the Eyes of the Media.” Shorenstein Speaker Series event with David Broder, political correspondent and columnist, The Washington Post; Fellow, Institute of Politics (Fall ’69–Spring ’70); Shorenstein Center Advisory Board member. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics.

April 14, 2010 – Discussion with Tracy Van Slyke, author and director of the Media Consortium. Co-sponsored by the Media & Communications PIC, Gov 2.0 PIC and the Progressive Caucus.

April 13, 2010 – Kelman Seminar Series with Peter Galbraith, former ambassador to Croatia and former Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Afghanistan and an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the

April 13, 2010 — At a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event, Michael Tackett, Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News, spoke about the “need for quality” while being “bombarded with information.” In his talk, “News a Third Way: Substance and Speed in a World of Tweets,” Tackett provided a brief background of Bloomberg’s history. It began

April 5, 2010 — What role does new media play in covering health care reform? To answer this question, a panel including Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and management at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard School of Public Health; Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor at ABC News; Ezra Klein, blogger on economic and domestic policy for

April 1, 2010 – Deborah Amos, the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Fellow and NPR’s Iraq correspondent, discusses her book, Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store.