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September 27, 2005 — Michael Isikoff, an investigative correspondent for Newsweek magazine, spoke at a brown-bag luncheon titled “Sourcing the News: Perils and Pitfalls.” Isikoff has written extensively on the war on terrorism, the Abu Ghraib scandal, campaign-finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues. He is also the co-author of the […]

September 19, 2005 — The Shorenstein Center kicked off its annual series of brown-bag lunches with “A Conversation with Judy Woodruff,” moderated by Shorenstein Center director Alex Jones. Woodruff is a broadcast journalist who has covered politics and breaking news for NBC, PBS, and CNN, and served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring

May 3, 2005: “A Multifaceted Discussion with the Spring 2005 Shorenstein Fellows.” Topics will include the political impact of technology, globalization of American opinion, effect of mass media on politicians, countering Islamic fundamentalism through introduction of free media, diversity in the media, and the changing role of the newspaper column in the public debate. Fellows include

April 27, 2005: “Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper.” Brown-bag lunch with Laurel Leff, associate professor of journalism, Northeastern University.

April 25, 2005: “Dynasty or Dinosaur? An Insider’s Perspective on Network News.” Brown-bag lunch with Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News.

April 18, 2005: “Iraq: Ground Truth.” Brown-bag lunch with Martha Raddatz, ABC News State Department correspondent.

April 12, 2005: “Covering the War on Terror: How Bias Can Creep into Reporting.” Brown-bag lunch with David Rohde, Shorenstein fellow and foreign correspondent at the New York Times.

April 7, 2005: “Liberals and the Press After 9/11.” Brown-bag lunch with Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic.

April 6, 2005: “Media Fragmentation and Food Fights: How Does a Newsweekly Compete?” Brown-bag lunch with Mark Whitaker, editor of Newsweek.

March 22, 2005: “What Went Wrong and Why: Explaining the Performance of U.S. Government Policy After the Invasion of Iraq.” Discussion with James Fallows and William Langewiesche, national correspondents for the Atlantic Monthly. They will discuss political failures as seen from Baghdad and Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Nieman

March 22, 2005: “Coverage of Corporate Malfeasance.” Brown-bag lunch with Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor at the New York Times. Morgenson writes the “Market Watch” column for the Sunday Money and Business section.

March 14, 2005: “The Media, Investing and Public Relations.” Brown-bag lunch with Geraldine Fabrikant, senior writer for media and investing, the New York Times.

March 9, 2005: “Blogs and Other News ‘Conditions’ of Interest.” Brown-bag lunch with Rick Kaplan, president of MSNBC, NBC news’ 24-hour cable channel.

March 2, 2005: “Asia: Caught in the Web of Nationalism.” Discussion with Nayan Chanda, director of publications, Yale University Center for the Study of Globalization.

February 24, 2005: “Propaganda, News and Politics.” A conversation with Frank Rich, columnist and associate editor, the New York Times. John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Kennedy School of Government Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics.

February 22, 2005: “The Polarization of Modern Politics and the Outlook for Change.” Brown-bag lunch with John Harwood, political editor, the Wall Street Journal.

February 15, 2005: “A British Journalist’s Reporting from Washington.” Brown-bag lunch with Julian Borger, U.S. bureau chief, the Guardian.