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.
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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
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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
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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
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October 13, 2006 – Panel: “New Media and News: Peering Over the Horizon.” Moderator: Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com, City University of New York; Michael Kinsley, Slate and the Guardian; Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices Online, former Shorenstein Fellow; Martin Nisenholtz, the New York Times Company; Paul Sagan, Akamai,
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October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Traditional News Media: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism.” Moderator: Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: John Carroll, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, Knight Visiting Lecturer; Rick Kaplan, formerly of MSNBC and CNN-US; Bill Marimow, National Public Radio; Robin Sproul, ABC News; Evan Thomas, Newsweek, Visiting Murrow Professor. Audio
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October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Media and Democracy.” Moderator: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Main presenter: Nik Gowing, BBC World, former Shorenstein Fellow. Panelists: Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker, former Shorenstein Fellow; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Bill Kovach, formerly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Committee of
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October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Newspapers and Industry Transformation.” Introduction by Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment. With Scott Anthony, Innosight, and co-author of Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Audio
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October 13–14, 2006 — How the media impacts politics and policy decision-making has been the subject of intense conjecture and debate for decades. The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy was founded in 1986 to address these very questions. Named for the late CBS Evening News producer Joan Shorenstein Barone and
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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May 4, 2006 – Brown-bag lunch with Louis Uchitelle, New York Times economics reporter and author of The Disposable American.
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May 2, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Susan Chira, foreign editor at the New York Times, explained that journalists in Iraq are restricted by security concerns in their efforts to do in-depth reporting. Reporters face “an ever-tightening circle of where they can go and what they can see for themselves,” Chira said.
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April 27, 2006 — Rick Kaplan, president and general manager of MSNBC, NBC News’ 24-hour cable channel, discussed the network’s strategy for increasing ratings at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. A journalist for over 30 years, Kaplan says content is the key: “If there’s news, people watch…. Just marking time with tabloid stories doesn’t get
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April 18, 2006 – “‘O’ for Orwellian: Doublespeak and Its Effect on Democracy.” Brown-bag lunch with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation.
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April 11, 2006 — Mark Jurkowitz, media critic for the Boston Phoenix, discussed how bloggers impacted the celebrity status of Jill Carroll at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Jurkowitz suggested that the initial response of many bloggers to the Christian Science Monitor reporter’s condemnation of the U.S. military presence in Iraq — remarks Carroll made
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April 4, 2006 — Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch on what he called his “first love”—covering foreign policy. Focusing on the allocation of scarce resources as a way of explaining the quantity and quality of foreign affairs coverage done by major news outlets
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