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November 17, 2005 – “Creating and Framing the Message.” Talk by Mark McKinnon, President George W. Bush’s senior media advisor and strategist, who directed communications and advertising strategy for the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.

November 14, 2005 — Adam Nagourney, national political correspondentfor the New York Times and a current Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, led a discussion he called “The American Political Landscape: One Journalist’s Perspective.” In his remarks, Nagourney focused on the current pressures that journalists face, many of which can be attributed to

November 8, 2005 — Zanny Minton Beddoes, a Kennedy School graduate who is currently Washington economics editor for the Economist, returned to Cambridge on November 8 to discuss her experience working for the magazine in a talk titled “The Inside Outsider: Covering America’s Economic Policy for the Economist.” As one who has written extensively on

November 1, 2005 — Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, addressed concerns about reporting on the war in Iraq in a discussion titled “The Glaring Gap in the Press Coverage of Iraq.” The author of Now They Tell Us, a collection of articles about press coverage on the war, Massing described

October 25, 2005 — Roberta Baskin visited the Shorenstein Center to lead a discussion entitled “What’s Right with Journalism.” A former chief investigative correspondent for the CBS News program 48 Hours, Baskin is now executive director at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts investigative research and reports on public policy

October 18, 2005: “NPR: With Friends Like These…” Brown-bag lunch with Michael McCauley, former radio journalist, associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and author of The Triumphs and Trials of National Public Radio.

October 17, 2005: “Housing, the Economy and the ‘Bubble’: The Wall Street Journal.” Brown-bag lunch with Robert Haggerty, housing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

October 11, 2005 — Suzanne Malveaux, White House correspondent for CNN, spoke to students and other members of the Kennedy School community about her experiences covering the Bush administration. While unable to speak with complete candor about the inner workings of the administration, Malveaux — who has covered the Bush White House for four years