Events

February 26, 2013 – Political analyst Michael Tomasky, who writes for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about President Obama’s legacy, and how it compares to Reagan’s. There is not a clear comparison yet, Tomasky said, but he acknowledged that as Reagan shifted the “political gravity” to the right, Obama has shifted […]

February 19, 2013 – Julia Angwin, senior technology editor for The Wall Street Journal, discussed the implications of surveillance and privacy online. What is the definition of privacy, how has that definition changed, and what is the legal side? Below is the complete recap. Click here to view in Storify. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/julia-angwin-privacy-in-the-digital-age

February 14, 2013 – Amid news of Time Warner possibly selling off most of its print magazines, Nancy Gibbs, deputy managing editor of Time magazine, told the Shorenstein Center that she is “enormously optimistic” about the future of the publication, and the journalism industry as a whole. Gibbs began by looking back at Time‘s history, with […]

February 12, 2013 – Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of The New York Times, outlined two opposing sides on the issue of how social media is changing traditional reporting and objectivity. To illustrate the distinction, Sullivan used examples written by two thought-leaders in journalism:  Tom Kent, standards editor for the Associated Press, Jay Rosen, a journalism professor […]

February 5, 2013 – “A Close Look at the Loss of Freedom of the Press and Deterioration of Human Rights in Turkey.” A discussion with Ferai Tinc, Former foreign news editor of Hürriyet, one of Turkey’s leading daily newspapers.

Tuesday, February 5, 12 p.m. Speaker Series with Chris Hughes, publisher and editor-in-chief, The New Republic; co-founded and served as spokesman for Facebook.

January 31, 2012 – Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which carries a cash award of $25,000, will be announced at an […]

January 24, 2014 – The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is pleased to announce its 2013 Spring Fellows. “We have an all-star group of fellows from the heights of journalism and politics and the pinnacle of digital technology, and it promises […]

December 3, 2012 – “Unilateral Initiatives in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Yaakov Katz, military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and the Israel Correspondent for Jane’s Defense Weekly; and Robert Mnookin, Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, chair of the Executive Committee at the […]

November 27, 2012 – The Shorenstein Center welcomed Cheryl Contee, co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics; co-founder and partner of Fission Strategy, to discuss the “End of the Digital Divide” and the impact it has on the U.S.