Events

October 17, 2005: “Housing, the Economy and the ‘Bubble’: The Wall Street Journal.” Brown-bag lunch with Robert Haggerty, housing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

October 11, 2005 — Suzanne Malveaux, White House correspondent for CNN, spoke to students and other members of the Kennedy School community about her experiences covering the Bush administration. While unable to speak with complete candor about the inner workings of the administration, Malveaux — who has covered the Bush White House for four years […]

October 4, 2005 — Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for Time magazine, visited the Shorenstein Center to share her views in a talk she called “The New Cronyism: How Many More Mike Browns are Out There?” As New Orleans continues to roil from the shock of Hurricane Katrina, many have begun to question the credentials […]

October 3, 2005: “Housing in Boston: The View from the Globe.” Brown-bag lunch with Kim Blanton, housing reporter for the Boston Globe. Co-sponsored with the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

September 30, 2005: “Land of the Settlers: From the Notebook of an Israeli TV Journalist.” Presentation by Chaim Yavin, news anchor at Channel 1 (Israel), who has had a distinguished career in broadcast news covering a wide range of topics from Israeli society and politics to the Arab Israeli conflict and efforts at peace. Segments from […]

September 29, 2005: “Democracy: The Human Cost.” Brown-bag lunch with Michael Goldfarb, former senior correspondent of WBUR’s Inside Out. Goldfarb covered major conflicts from Bosnia to Iraq, conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, and covered British politics and culture. A 2002 Shorenstein fellow, Goldfarb won a DuPont-Columbia Award for his report, Surviving Torture: Inside Out, and, this […]

September 27, 2005 — Michael Isikoff, an investigative correspondent for Newsweek magazine, spoke at a brown-bag luncheon titled “Sourcing the News: Perils and Pitfalls.” Isikoff has written extensively on the war on terrorism, the Abu Ghraib scandal, campaign-finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues. He is also the co-author of the […]

September 19, 2005 — The Shorenstein Center kicked off its annual series of brown-bag lunches with “A Conversation with Judy Woodruff,” moderated by Shorenstein Center director Alex Jones. Woodruff is a broadcast journalist who has covered politics and breaking news for NBC, PBS, and CNN, and served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring […]

May 3, 2005: “A Multifaceted Discussion with the Spring 2005 Shorenstein Fellows.” Topics will include the political impact of technology, globalization of American opinion, effect of mass media on politicians, countering Islamic fundamentalism through introduction of free media, diversity in the media, and the changing role of the newspaper column in the public debate. Fellows include […]

April 27, 2005: “Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper.” Brown-bag lunch with Laurel Leff, associate professor of journalism, Northeastern University.