April 1, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer shared her experiences with “The Politics of Covering Regular People.” Reporting on ways that workers are exploited or mistreated, she has found that “most people want to make a difference, but they don’t know how.” […]
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March 18, 2009 — Stories of workplace horrors, dishonest mayors, regulatory negligence and seedy landlords were shared by the six finalists for the 2009 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting the day after the awards ceremony. Read the Transcript In the Goldsmith seminar, titled “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting,” journalists from the Charlotte Observer,
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March 17, 2009 — The winners of the Shorenstein Center’s annual Goldsmith career award are by definition accomplished. But in listing all the achievements of this year’s recipient, Gwen Ifill, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones chose to focus on something that is unlikely to find its way onto her resume. Watch the Video Read
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March 17, 2009 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post for their investigative report “Forced Out.” The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy administers the award. Watch the Video Read the Transcript Cenziper and Cohen’s investigation revealed
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March 17, 2009 — The brown-bag talk by Robin Sproul, Washington bureau chief for ABC News, was titled “The New Administration and Change,” but it could have as easily been “The Next 50 days.” “The biggest change [in Washington] is velocity, the speed of change that’s happening,” said Sproul, a Shorenstein Center fellow in fall
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March 13, 2009 – Discussion on the U.S. economic crisis with Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy.
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March 10, 2009 — As Washington correspondent for the New York Times and self-decribed “profilist” of the Obama administration, Jodi Kantor chose “Covering Obama World” as the topic of her March 10 Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk. In her remarks, she described some of the people in the new administration. To illustrate the range of personalities,
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March 3, 2009 — Judging from his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Fallen Sky: Finding a Way Forward After the Media Shakeout,” New York Times media columnist David Carr is equal parts pessimist and optimist. What did Carr think of the recently announced cancellation of the 2009 newspaper editors’ convention? “An extinction event,” he said in
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February 24, 2009 — Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of Slate, looked at web media and the future of journalism at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Director Alex S. Jones launched the discussion with the observation that in today’s online environment, there is “gigantic success without profitability,” citing examples such as YouTube and Facebook. The challenge facing the media
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February 19, 2009 — The Harvard Club of New York was the site of a briefing for journalists on the economy and New York, sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. The guests of honor at the event were the Honorable Jon S. Corzine, governor of New Jersey, and
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