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JFK Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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September 25, 2007 – The Kalb Report: Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, joins veteran journalist and scholar Marvin Kalb to discuss democracy and the press in the first installment of the 2007–2008 Kalb Report series.
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September 25, 2007 – “Landscape for the White House 2008.” Brown-bag lunch with political analyst Amy Walter.
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September 18, 2007 – “Politics as Entertainment: The Softening of Presidential Campaign Coverage.” Brown-bag lunch with media critic Bill Powers, National Journal.
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September 10, 2007 – Shorenstein Center announces fall 2007 fellows. Learn more; Press Release
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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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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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