Events

November 7, 2006 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center hosted a brown bag lunch with Washington, D.C.–based political reporter Tom Oliphant. Oliphant’s talk focused on the possible implications of a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate. Oliphant said that, in this election, a Democratic vote is essentially synonymous with a vote against […]

November 1, 2006 — At his Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, journalist Mickey Kaus chose to speak about the impact of the “blogosphere” on American politics. Kaus maintained that due to the rapid pace of political blogging, today, pieces of political news “rise faster and die faster” in the consciousness of voters. He referenced, as an […]

October 31, 2006 – “Lighthouse or Street Lamp? Illuminating Reporting in a Global World of Shrinking Bureaus.” Brown-bag lunch with Karen Elliott House, former senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company and former publisher of the Wall Street Journal.  

October 24, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Russian journalist Evgeni Kiselev discussed declining press freedom under Russia’s current president, Vladimir Putin. In 2001, Kiselev — then a reporter for NTV, Russia’s first independent television news organization — was summoned to the Kremlin, along with his NTV co-workers. There they were told of […]

October 18, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Peter D. Hart, one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States, offered a sneak preview of the numbers in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, which was embargoed until 6:30 p.m. Eastern time that day. Hart described the mood of the […]

October 16, 2006 — Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post and the author of Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, discussed the challenges and risks of reporting from a war zone, at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Chandrasekaran began reporting from Iraq in the beginning of 2002. “In […]

October 13, 2006 – Panel: “New Media and News: Peering Over the Horizon.” Moderator: Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com, City University of New York; Michael Kinsley, Slate and the Guardian; Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices Online, former Shorenstein Fellow; Martin Nisenholtz, the New York Times Company; Paul Sagan, Akamai, […]

October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Traditional News Media: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism.” Moderator: Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: John Carroll, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, Knight Visiting Lecturer; Rick Kaplan, formerly of MSNBC and CNN-US; Bill Marimow, National Public Radio; Robin Sproul, ABC News; Evan Thomas, Newsweek, Visiting Murrow Professor. Audio

October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Media and Democracy.” Moderator: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Main presenter: Nik Gowing, BBC World, former Shorenstein Fellow. Panelists: Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker, former Shorenstein Fellow; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Bill Kovach, formerly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Committee of […]

October 13, 2006 – Panel: “Newspapers and Industry Transformation.” Introduction by Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment. With Scott Anthony, Innosight, and co-author of Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Audio