Attend the 2026 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics with preeminent documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Shorenstein Center Director, Nancy Gibbs, will hold a fireside chat with Burns in the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School.
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JFK Jr. Forum, HKS
6:00 PM
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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April 14, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference: Youth Activism” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.
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April 11, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Carol Darr, director of the Institute of Politics, Democracy and the Internet at the George Washington University, offered her perspective on how new technologies are “democratizing democracy.” Darr asserted that the Internet has empowered a new group of political activists. “The Internet has lowered the […]
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Inaugurated in 1989, the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, politician or historian on a topic at the intersection of media and politics. Past lecturers include Jill Lepore, John Lewis, William Safire, and Walter Cronkite.
Theodore H. White Lecture
The Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, scholar or practitioner on a topic related to press freedom or freedom of speech.
Salant Lecture
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