Events

February 27, 2007 — Adam Nagourney, national political reporter for the New York Times, addressed a full house on the topic of the media and the 2008 presidential campaign at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. The talk was cosponsored with the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. Nagourney debunked several misconceptions about the upcoming primary and […]

February 21, 2007 — Eric Klinenberg, at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, discussed his book Fighting For Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media. A sociologist at New York University, Klinenberg described the book as a “sociological ethnographic study” that addresses a central question on the minds of many media scholars, news consumers, and particularly […]

February 20, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Renee Ferguson inspired lively conversation and debate over the justification of breaking journalistic taboos — in this case, naming and visually identifying a rape victim — under the auspices of telling a good story. Ferguson, a current Nieman Fellow with more than 30 years of […]

February 14, 2007 — At his Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Floyd Abrams, an attorney specializing in freedom of speech and press issues, spoke about the intersection of law and journalism. Co-counsel for the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, Abrams was also one of Judith Miller’s attorneys in the recent CIA leak investigation. […]

February 13, 2007 — Paul Barrett, assistant managing editor at BusinessWeek and author of American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, discussed the trends of news coverage of American Muslims across print and broadcast media, addressing the biases and stereotypes reinforced therein. In terms of print media, Barrett said that news coverage […]

February 12, 2007 — Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government took part in the first brown-bag lunch hosted by the Shorenstein Center of 2007. At the event Power spoke about the nexus of human rights, U.S. foreign policy, […]

February 5, 2007 – The Kalb Report: “Arab Journalists: Another Perspective.” Panel discussion on the differing perceptions and coverage of major news from the Middle East and around the world, including the war in Iraq and the Arab-Israeli peace process. Panelists include Mohamad Alami, Al Jazeera chief correspondent, Raghida Dergham, Al Hayat columnist and senior diplomatic […]

January 31, 2007 – Finalists announced for the 2007 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Press release

January 29, 2007 – Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for spring 2007. Learn more; Press release

January 11, 2007 – “China Bets on Its Future: Four Bets and the Future of the People’s Republic of China.” A panel discussion with Alex S. Jones, Director, Shorenstein Center; Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in Public Policy; Suzanne Ogden, Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University; Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research; John Pomfret, West Coast Correspondent and […]