Events

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 […]

February 28, 2012 — After nearly 12 years of obstacles, Raymond Bonner‘s book, Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong, was published by Knopf. Bonner spoke to the Shorenstein Center about his journalistic process in writing the book and getting it published in spite of difficulties. Bonner, a former investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for […]

February 27, 2012 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Pir Zubair Shah, Reporter for the New York Times and Nieman Fellow; and David Greenway, Shorenstein Fellow and contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune and GlobalPost.

February 24, 2012 – Wadah Khanfar, president of the Sharq Forum, an international think tank focused on political and economic development in the Arab world, and former director general of the Al Jazeera network. Learn more

February 15, 2012 — Information consumption should be treated like a public health issue, said Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, at a Shorenstein Center event moderated by Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. “We are wired for what was good for us, rather than what is good […]

February 14, 2012 — The Tea Party movement shares “striking similarities” to the online progressive movement of 2004–2005, said Matt Bai, chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. Bai spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how these two movements illustrate a decentralization in American politics. Technology has played a substantial role in both […]

A digital power play stopped the SOPA and PIPA legislation. What are the implications?
A discussion with Susan Crawford, Micah Sifry, Nicco Mele, Elaine Kamarck and Alexis Ohanian .

February 7, 2012 — The revolutions during the Arab Spring have yielded disappointing results for women, said NPR foreign correspondent Lourdes Garcia‑Navarro at a Shorenstein Center event. While the events of Tahrir Square and across the Middle East provided women with unprecedented opportunities, she said, when the smoke cleared, women once again found themselves underrepresented in […]

February 2, 2012 – A panel conversation with Mona Eltahawy, Columnist, Toronto Star, The Jerusalem Report and Politiken; Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, HKS; and Charles Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and Co-founder, GlobalPost. Moderator: Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek. Cosponsored by HKS Middle East Initiative; The Open Hands Initiative; The Shorenstein Center on the […]

January 31, 2012 — Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent for RealClearPolitics, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about President Obama and his administration. Simendinger outlined four areas that the president himself has identified as needing improvement: communicating effectively, focusing on what people care about, portraying a centrist image and using executive power. What he was so […]