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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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April 27, 2006 — Rick Kaplan, president and general manager of MSNBC, NBC News’ 24-hour cable channel, discussed the network’s strategy for increasing ratings at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. A journalist for over 30 years, Kaplan says content is the key: “If there’s news, people watch…. Just marking time with tabloid stories doesn’t get […]
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April 18, 2006 – “‘O’ for Orwellian: Doublespeak and Its Effect on Democracy.” Brown-bag lunch with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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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