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For MSNBC’s Rick Kaplan, content is the key for increasing ratings

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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Jurkowitz discusses bloggers’ impact on celebrity status

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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McManus encouraged by demand for foreign affairs coverage

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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Conference looks at Supreme Court nomination process

March 24, 2006 — What roles do the press, political parties and interest groups play in the Supreme Court nomination process? To answer the question, the Shorenstein Center brought together some of the country’s most prominent political activists, journalists, academics and government officials to discuss the ways in which a nominee’s candidacy for the nation’s

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The U.S.-Islamic Media Challenge: Twenty Versions of One Event — Similarities and Differences

March 14, 2006 – “The U.S.-Islamic Media Challenge: Twenty Versions of One Event — Similarities and Differences.” Brown-bag lunch with Marvin Kalb, senior fellow and founding director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and Carol Saivetz, lecturer in Harvard’s Department of Government.

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Journalists serve two bosses, says Ken Auletta of the New Yorker

February 14, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Ken Auletta, “Annals of Communication” columnist for the New Yorker, discussed for whom the journalist works. Broadly speaking, Auletta said, the news media serve two groups: the general readership, on the one hand; their corporate owners, on the other. The interests of these two groups

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We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open-Source Journalism, and the Coming Era of the Citizen Activist

February 13, 2006 – “We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open-Source Journalism, and the Coming Era of the Citizen Activist.” A talk with Dan Gillmor, founder and director of the Center for Citizen Media. Part I of Berkman Center’s (Harvard Law School) Citizen Media Series, a series of five talks centering on recent developments in

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Post’s Hiatt looks at journalism in partisan political culture

February 8, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor for the Washington Post, considered the implications of a highly partisan political culture and an increasingly fractured media environment on opinion journalism. As editor of the Post‘s editorial, op-ed and letters section, he said he is intent on presenting a

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