Events

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 […]

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 […]