Prizes & Lectures
Theodore H. White Lecture with David Brooks
November 15, 2012 – Theodore H. White Lecture with David Brooks, columnist, The New York Times. The David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism was awarded to Cynthia Tucker, Pulitzer Prize–winner and columnist for Universal Press Syndicate.
Salant Lecture delivered by Anne-Marie Slaughter
October 10, 2012 – “Open v. Closed: Media, Government and Social Organization in the Information Age.” Fifth annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press delivered by Anne‑Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International…
T.H. White Seminar explores conservatism, third party and GOP candidates
November 18, 2011 – Theodore H. White Seminar on the Press and Politics with Tad Devine, Democratic media consultant for presidential campaigns; founder, Devine Mulvey; IOP Fellow; Thomas Frank, 2011 Nyhan Prize recipient; author and columnist, Harper’s magazine; Nia-Malika Henderson, national political reporter, The…
Andrew Sullivan delivers 22nd annual Theodore H. White Lecture
November 17, 2011 — Andrew Sullivan, political commentator and blogger with The Daily Beast, gave the 2011 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. In his Lecture, “Conservatism and Its Discontents,” Sullivan…
NYU’s Clay Shirky Gives Lecture on Press Freedom
October 14, 2011 – Clay Shirky, NYU professor of new media, delivers the 2011 Richard Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press for the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/nyus-clay-shirky-salant-lecture-at-harvard-kennedy Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims,…
Taylor Branch: Journalism allowed trivialization of public debate
November 12, 2009 — In introducing Taylor Branch, the 2009 T.H. White Lecturer, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones began by describing Branch’s youth in the segregated south of the 1950s. It was a place of “whites only” entrances, of Lester Maddox…
Jonathan Zittrain delivers 2009 Richard S. Salant Lecture
October 22, 2009 — Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, began the second annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press with a tour of…
