Events

February 14, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Ken Auletta, “Annals of Communication” columnist for the New Yorker, discussed for whom the journalist works. Broadly speaking, Auletta said, the news media serve two groups: the general readership, on the one hand; their corporate owners, on the other. The interests of these two groups […]

February 13, 2006 – “We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open-Source Journalism, and the Coming Era of the Citizen Activist.” A talk with Dan Gillmor, founder and director of the Center for Citizen Media. Part I of Berkman Center’s (Harvard Law School) Citizen Media Series, a series of five talks centering on recent developments in […]

February 8, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor for the Washington Post, considered the implications of a highly partisan political culture and an increasingly fractured media environment on opinion journalism. As editor of the Post‘s editorial, op-ed and letters section, he said he is intent on presenting a […]

February 7, 2006 – Press Freedom, Journalists’ Safety, and the Conflict in Iraq.” Brown-bag lunch with Ann Cooper, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the global defense of press freedom.

December 15, 2005 — The Shorenstein Center is delighted to announce that we will host the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, a position for distinguished journalists who will study, analyze and comment on the future of journalism in America and around the world. John S. Carroll, former editor of The Los Angeles Times, is the first […]

December 12, 2005 – “Press, Politics and Public Policy: The Domestic and International View.” Symposium with Shorenstein Fellows: David Anable, Christian Science Monitor; Diane Francis, National Post; Sunshine Hillygus, Harvard University; Zhengrong Hu, Communication University of China; and Kevin Ryan, Brigadier General (Ret.).

December 6, 2005 – “Coming Home from the ‘War on Terror.’ ” Brown-bag lunch with Charles Sennott, 2006 Nieman Fellow.

December 5, 2005 — Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who as young reporters broke the Watergate scandal wide open, came together again for a Kennedy School Forum discussion on anonymous sources and journalistic integrity. Described by moderator Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, as “the most celebrated and admired reporting team in history,” both […]

November 29, 2005 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, General Vincent Brooks, U.S Army chief of public affairs at the Pentagon and a 1998 Kennedy School National Security Fellow, shared his views on what constitutes effective communications in today’s global information environment. As he lamented how the military’s mission-focused culture often leads to reticence, […]

November 22, 2005 — Roger Rosenblatt, the Shorenstein Center’s Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of the Practice of Press and Public Policy, discussed what entices people to write in a brown-bag lunch lunch titled “Why Write?” A satirist by trade, Rosenblatt began his talk by positing that writers — “an inherently awkward group” — are […]