March 17, 2004 —The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to the New York Times and Frontline by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for their award-winning investigative report “Dangerous Business: When Workers Die.” The Shorenstein Center is part of the John F. Kennedy School of Government […]
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October 28, 2003 — Robert A. Caro, biographer and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Power Broker and Master of the Senate delivered the 2004 Theodore H. White Lecture in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. His lecture was titled “Lyndon Johnson: Personality and Power.” The following morning Caro joined a panel of prominent media
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April 15, 2003 —On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, the Shorenstein Center co-sponsored a conference on corporate social responsibility in New York City. This nonpartisan conference brought together top business leaders, elected officials, investors, and academic representatives to discuss how to promote better corporate accountability and transparency and how to restore confidence in our institutions and
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March 11, 2003 —The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to the Boston Globe by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for its award-winning investigative report “Crisis in the Catholic Church.” Launched in 1991, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting honors journalism which promotes more effective and
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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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