October 16, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with Dale Mezzacappa, award-winning education reporter and president of the Education Writers Association. Moderated by IOP Fellow Gina Glantz. Co-sponsored by the Communications and Media Professional Interest Council (PIC) and Education PIC.
Obama’s Education Agenda: Is It an Extension of Bush? Read More »
October 14, 2009 —Time magazine columnist Joe Klein was introduced at the Shorenstein brown-bag lunch by Director Alex S. Jones as “deeply informed, outspoken, clear thinking,” in covering the “troublesome parts of world affairs.” Klein spoke on Obama’s foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iran, describing his own experiences in that part of the world as
Joe Klein: Diplomacy ‘crucial’ in Iran and Afghanistan Read More »
October 13, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Major Garrett, senior White House correspondent for Fox News, discussed covering a historic campaign and presidency, and the “public feud” between the White House communications office and his network. The feud concerns a statement from White House communications director Anita Dunn about Fox News. Garrett
Garrett ‘feels weight’ of feud between Fox and White House Read More »
October 6, 2009 – Discussion with Ibrahim Barzaq, correspondent, The Associated Press and Nieman Fellow and Gabriella Blum, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Israel and Palestine: Making Connections Across a Deep Historical Divide Read More »
October 6, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Media Cloud and Quantitative Analysis,” Ethan Zuckerman, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and co-founder of Media Cloud, explained how his new project attempts to track news coverage over time. Media analysis in its current state is “really easy to do
Zuckerman’s Media Cloud focused on thorough media analysis Read More »
October 5, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with Iason Athanasiadis, photojournalist and former Nieman Fellow. Moderated by Stephen Williams, Shorenstein Fellow; BBC producer responsible for the creation of BBC Persian TV. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
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September 30, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center sponsored a briefing for journalists on health care reform at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The event featured two panels moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy: The first panel was “News Coverage of Health Reform: Metanarratives
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September 29, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “How Do We Grow From Here? The American Economy After the Great Recession,” New York Times Economic Scene columnist David Leonhardt stressed the importance of maintaining economic growth in the United States and suggestions for increasing it. It’s the “worst recession in a generation,” Leonhardt said,
Leonhardt looks at how to raise long-term economic growth Read More »
September 22, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Internet Issues Facing Newspapers,” Clay Shirky described the changing news landscape that has put accountability journalism at risk, and he outlined a “journalistic ecosystem” that is needed to preserve essential watchdog role of the press. Shirky, who writes on social and economic effects of Internet
‘Accountability journalism’ is at risk, says Clay Shirky Read More »
September 15, 2009 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict with Susan Hackley, managing director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and James Reynolds, China correspondent for BBC News and Nieman Fellow. Moderator: Donna Hicks, Associate of the Weatherhead Center. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation
In the Global Village, Can War Survive? Read More »
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