October 29, 2002 — The idea that history has something valuable and useful to teach us has been seriously questioned by academic historians in recent years, and a new and often bewildering set of theories justifying the historical enterprise has been proposed in its stead. David McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for history, whose […]
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March 12, 2002 — Christiane Amanpour, this year’s winner of the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism, gave the keynote address at the awards ceremony. Amanpour, chief international correspondent at CNN, spoke about the trials, tribulations — and rewards — of being a war correspondent in these difficult days. The Forum talk was a
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November 1, 2001 — Ever since those horrifying moments when two passenger jetliners smashed into the World Trade Center towers seven weeks ago, Americans have been glued to their television sets with a seemingly insatiable appetite for information. And the TV networks have responded with a steady stream of around-the-clock coverage that has usurped the
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June 28, 2001 — In an effort to stimulate discussion about the way important racial-related news stories are reported in the American media, the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy sponsored a Conference on Race and the Press on Thursday, June 28, in Washington, D.C.
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March 13, 2001 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to Karen Dillon off the Kansas City Star for “To Protect and Collect,” which examined a controversial police practice of keeping money seized during drug raids. Watch the Video The finalists for the prize were: – Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills
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February 26, 2001 — Tom Brokaw, anchor of the NBC Nightly News since 1983, delivered the 11th Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics tonight. The journalist’s subject was “So Much Information, So Little Time.” Speaking to a Forum crowd of 800 people, Brokaw discussed the pressures on broadcast journalists today, commenting pointedly that
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August 13, 2000 — The day before the Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles’s Regal Biltmore Hotel was the site of a panel on the impact of the Internet on democracy, hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. During the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, much attention was paid to
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July 30, 2000 — On the occasion of the 2000 Republican National Convention, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy hosted a panel on convention television coverage. The event took place at Philadelphia City Hall, and featured numerous news-organization and political leaders. Shorenstein Center report, Is There a Future for On-the-Air
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April 19, 2000 — Alex S. Jones, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and host of PBS’s Media Matters, has been named the new director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, announced Dean Joseph S. Nye, Jr. today. “Alex Jones brings a breadth
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March 9, 2000 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to journalists from Time magazine by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. In last night’s ceremony, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele were presented the Prize for their series,
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March 11, 1999 — 60 Minutes co-editor and CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl received this year’s Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. The award is given annually by the Joan Shorenstein Center to recognize and honor a journalist whose work has enriched our political discourse and our society. Watch the Video “Lesley Stahl has done
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