Events

April 3, 2012 – President Obama is less comfortable with exercising power publicly than privately, said David Ignatius, associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post, at a Shorenstein Center event. “As covert Commander-in-Chief, [Obama] has been quite effective,” he continued. While he is “reticent, reluctant to use the public political tools of power, in private…he […]

April 2, 2012 – Discussion with Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas. Moderated by Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership. Watch the video:

March 28, 2012 – Featuring panelists Susan Chira, assistant managing editor for news of The New York Times; Charlie Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost; Phil Bennett, managing editor of Frontline. Moderated by Alex Jones, Director of the Shorenstein Center. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, […]

March 27, 2012 – Rebecca MacKinnon, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, co-founder of GlobalVoices Online and former Shorenstein Center Fellow, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the importance of Internet freedom worldwide.

March 26, 2012 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Kevin Ryan, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center; and Simon Saradzhyan, Fellow, Belfer Center. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Shorenstein Center.

March 20, 2012 – Super PACs (political action committees) and large donors have impacted the 2012 presidential race in surprising ways, said Jeanne Cummings, Government Team Deputy Editor for Bloomberg News, at a Shorenstein Center event. An unexpected result of changes in campaign financing, Cummings said, is that candidates in the GOP primary race each […]

March 7, 2012 – Speaker Series with Scott Heiferman, CEO and a co-founder of Meetup.org. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/scott-heiferman-meetup-and-the-bottom-up-revolutio

March 7, 2012 — The Goldsmith Seminar featured a panel discussion with Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian and Goldsmith Career Award winner, and the winners and finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/goldsmith-seminar-on-the-present-and-future-of-inv

At the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony on March 6, the winner of the Prize for Investigative Reporting was announced, and Alan Rusbridger of The Guardian delivered the keynote speech.

March 6, 2012 — On Super Tuesday, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Melinda Henneberger, political reporter and blogger for The Washington Post, to discuss the presidential primary race. “The GOP primary couldn’t have gone better for the Democrats,” Henneberger began. The surprising thing about the race, she said, is that what began as a campaign focused […]