Events

April 11, 2006 — Mark Jurkowitz, media critic for the Boston Phoenix, discussed how bloggers impacted the celebrity status of Jill Carroll at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Jurkowitz suggested that the initial response of many bloggers to the Christian Science Monitor reporter’s condemnation of the U.S. military presence in Iraq — remarks Carroll made […]

April 4, 2006 — Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch on what he called his “first love”—covering foreign policy. Focusing on the allocation of scarce resources as a way of explaining the quantity and quality of foreign affairs coverage done by major news outlets […]

March 24, 2006 — What roles do the press, political parties and interest groups play in the Supreme Court nomination process? To answer the question, the Shorenstein Center brought together some of the country’s most prominent political activists, journalists, academics and government officials to discuss the ways in which a nominee’s candidacy for the nation’s […]

March 21, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Walter Pincus, veteran intelligence reporter at the Washington Post, gave a broad outline of his career so far and offered insights into how the news reporting industry has changed since his early days as a reporter. In particular, Pincus bemoaned what he felt amounted to […]

March 15, 2006 – Goldsmith Awards Panel Discussion: “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting.” Participating will be the finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Alex S. Jones, moderator. Learn more

March 14, 2006 — The 2006 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for their investigative report “Domestic Spying.” Watch the Video Read the Ceremony transcript Read the Seminar transcript The […]

March 14, 2006 – “The U.S.-Islamic Media Challenge: Twenty Versions of One Event — Similarities and Differences.” Brown-bag lunch with Marvin Kalb, senior fellow and founding director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and Carol Saivetz, lecturer in Harvard’s Department of Government.

March 7, 2006 – “Miller’s Malfeasance and Woodward’s Folly: The Crisis in Access Journalism.” Brown-bag lunch with Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University.

March 1, 2006 – “Covering the Bush White House.” Brown-bag lunch with David Sanger, New York Times White House correspondent. Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics.

February 27, 2006 – “Global Voices: Learning to Listen to the Rest of the World.” Brown-bag lunch with Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices, a nonprofit global citizens’ media project sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School.