Events

September 18, 2007 – “Politics as Entertainment: The Softening of Presidential Campaign Coverage.” Brown-bag lunch with media critic Bill Powers, National Journal.

September 10, 2007 – Shorenstein Center announces fall 2007 fellows. Learn more; Press Release

May 5, 2007 — The Shorenstein Center contributed to the Kennedy School’s annual spring conference on May 5 by hosting a panel discussion titled “The Role of the Media in the Discussion of Global Warming.” The panel fit into the larger theme of the conference, titled “The Looming Crises: Can We Act in Time?” The […]

April 30, 2007 — At a brown-bag lunch sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, focused on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Sanger recalled his early encounters with Bush, stating that “it did not strike me at the […]

April 28, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference — Beijing Olympics 2008.” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

April 23, 2007 — Sylvia Poggioli, Senior Foreign Correspondent for NPR’s foreign desk and former Shorenstein Fellow, spoke at the center’s brown-bag lunch about European media reactions to foreign news and U.S. policies. She also discussed some of the differing philosophical attitudes on gun control, immigration, terrorism, the death penalty (which is banned in the […]

April 21, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference — Soldier Media.” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

April 18, 2007 — Mike McCurry, former press secretary for President Clinton, offered his perspective as a former White House spokesman at a brown-bag lunch hosted by the Shorenstein Center. McCurry qualified his remarks at the outset by stating that “the job has no bearing now” to the position he held more than 10 years […]

April 17, 2007 — At a brown-bag lunch sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Women and Public Policy Program, E.J. Graff, a senior researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, focused on debunking the “opt-out myth,” which refers to a woman’s decision to give up her career in favor of full-time […]

April 16, 2007 – “Following President Bush.” Brown-bag lunch with Brooks Kraft, a photojournalist based in Washington, D.C., assigned to photograph President Bush and the White House staff for Time magazine.