Events

April 18, 2012 – “HBO in the 21st Century.” A conversation with Richard Plepler, co-president of HBO. Moderated by Alex Jones, Shorenstein Center Director.

April 17, 2012 – For a behind-the-scenes look at the 2012 presidential race, the Shorenstein Center invited Jake Tapper, Senior White House Correspondent for ABC News and a substitute host for ABC’s This Week, to speak about what the Obama and Romney campaigns need to do to win the election. Both campaigns, he said, are focused […]

April 12, 2012 – Discussion with Francis Ghiles, political scientist, former reporter with The Financial Times, reporting on international capital markets and North Africa. Moderated by Ishac Diwan, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative. Nye A, Taubman Building, Fifth Floor

April 10, 2012 – Maria Hinojosa, anchor and managing editor of NPR’s Latino USA, and anchor of Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One (WGBX-TV), spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the challenges journalists face when reporting objective facts through the mainstream media.

A discussion with Alec Ross, Senior Adviser, Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Moderated by Susan Crawford, Visiting Stanton Professor. Co-sponsored by Tech{for}Change.

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.