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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 […]

March 21, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Walter Pincus, veteran intelligence reporter at the Washington Post, gave a broad outline of his career so far and offered insights into how the news reporting industry has changed since his early days as a reporter. In particular, Pincus bemoaned what he felt amounted to

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.

March 7, 2006 – “Miller’s Malfeasance and Woodward’s Folly: The Crisis in Access Journalism.” Brown-bag lunch with Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University.

March 1, 2006 – “Covering the Bush White House.” Brown-bag lunch with David Sanger, New York Times White House correspondent. Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics.

February 27, 2006 – “Global Voices: Learning to Listen to the Rest of the World.” Brown-bag lunch with Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices, a nonprofit global citizens’ media project sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School.

February 21, 2006 – “Listening for the Story: A Columnist’s View.” Brown-bag lunch with Connie Schultz, columnist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

February 16, 2006 — The 2006 receipient of the Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia is journalist Melinda Liu. The Shorenstein Journalism Award honors a journalist for a distinguished body of work that contributes to our understanding about the complexities of Asia. Liu joined Newsweek in 1980 and opened the Beijing bureau the same year;