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November 14, 2006 — At a Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, James Traub, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine discussed the subject of his latest book, The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. According to Traub, Annan’s media-friendly charm and charisma helped turn him into […]

November 13, 2006 — At a Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Jeanne Cummings, political reporter for the Wall Street Journal, offered a postmortem of last week’s midterm elections, dissecting the Democrats’ takeover of both chambers and prognosticating about presidential candidates. “This was a significant election, not your classic six-year cycle,” Cummings said. She attributed the Democrats’

November 9, 2006 – Marvin Kalb receives the 2006 Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club. The award, the NPC’s top honor, goes annually to an individual who has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contribution to American journalism. Acceptance speech PDF.

November 8, 2006 — At a Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Neil Budde, vice president and executive editor of Yahoo! News and founding editor of the Wall Street Journal Online, spoke about the seeming tension between traditional and new media. Budde asserted that a “sea change” has occurred in the industry over the last year. While

November 7, 2006 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center hosted a brown bag lunch with Washington, D.C.–based political reporter Tom Oliphant. Oliphant’s talk focused on the possible implications of a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate. Oliphant said that, in this election, a Democratic vote is essentially synonymous with a vote against

November 1, 2006 — At his Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, journalist Mickey Kaus chose to speak about the impact of the “blogosphere” on American politics. Kaus maintained that due to the rapid pace of political blogging, today, pieces of political news “rise faster and die faster” in the consciousness of voters. He referenced, as an

October 31, 2006 – “Lighthouse or Street Lamp? Illuminating Reporting in a Global World of Shrinking Bureaus.” Brown-bag lunch with Karen Elliott House, former senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company and former publisher of the Wall Street Journal.  

October 24, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Russian journalist Evgeni Kiselev discussed declining press freedom under Russia’s current president, Vladimir Putin. In 2001, Kiselev — then a reporter for NTV, Russia’s first independent television news organization — was summoned to the Kremlin, along with his NTV co-workers. There they were told of

October 18, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Peter D. Hart, one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States, offered a sneak preview of the numbers in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, which was embargoed until 6:30 p.m. Eastern time that day. Hart described the mood of the

October 16, 2006 — Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post and the author of Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, discussed the challenges and risks of reporting from a war zone, at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Chandrasekaran began reporting from Iraq in the beginning of 2002. “In

October 10, 2006 – “Big Media Meets Blogging.” Brown-bag lunch with James Taranto, editor of OpinonJournal.com and author of the “Best of the Web Today” column, Wall Street Journal.

October 3, 2006 — James Carroll, op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe and author of House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power discussed the effects of the military in America at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Carroll stated that the strength of America’s military bureaucracy requires the cooperation of “every

September 26, 2006 — Tom Edsall, reporter for the National Journal and the New Republic, and author of Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power, presented an overview of the Republican Party’s dominance in American government at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Edsall argued that in spite of the

September 19, 2006 – “Covering Conflict: Reporting from the Middle East.” Journalists from the region share their stories. Moderated by Alex S. Jones and John Shattuck.

May 25, 2006 – Fred Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, gave a lecture on freedom of expression in the context of the recent Danish cartoon controversy, as part of the Transatlantic Lecture Series of the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Transcript