Events

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 […]

November 17, 2005 – “Creating and Framing the Message.” Talk by Mark McKinnon, President George W. Bush’s senior media advisor and strategist, who directed communications and advertising strategy for the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.

November 14, 2005 — Adam Nagourney, national political correspondentfor the New York Times and a current Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, led a discussion he called “The American Political Landscape: One Journalist’s Perspective.” In his remarks, Nagourney focused on the current pressures that journalists face, many of which can be attributed to […]

November 8, 2005 — Zanny Minton Beddoes, a Kennedy School graduate who is currently Washington economics editor for the Economist, returned to Cambridge on November 8 to discuss her experience working for the magazine in a talk titled “The Inside Outsider: Covering America’s Economic Policy for the Economist.” As one who has written extensively on […]

November 1, 2005 — Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, addressed concerns about reporting on the war in Iraq in a discussion titled “The Glaring Gap in the Press Coverage of Iraq.” The author of Now They Tell Us, a collection of articles about press coverage on the war, Massing described […]

October 28, 2005 – Theodore H. White Seminar: “New Media, Old Media and the Future of Liberalism.” Panel discussion with Peter Beinart, the New Republic; John Leo, U.S. News and World Report; Thomas Patterson, Harvard University; Dorothy Rabinowitz, the Wall Street Journal; Jeanne Shaheen, director of the Institute of Politics and former governor of New Hampshire; […]

October 27, 2005 — A new generation of liberals, galvanized by Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, are using the “blogosphere” to generate support and formulate tactics, and may soon make their impact felt on national politics. This was the message of Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic, who delivered the Theodore H. White Lecture […]

October 25, 2005 — Roberta Baskin visited the Shorenstein Center to lead a discussion entitled “What’s Right with Journalism.” A former chief investigative correspondent for the CBS News program 48 Hours, Baskin is now executive director at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts investigative research and reports on public policy […]

October 18, 2005: “NPR: With Friends Like These…” Brown-bag lunch with Michael McCauley, former radio journalist, associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and author of The Triumphs and Trials of National Public Radio.