Events

November 21, 2011 — Diana Henriques, senior financial writer at The New York Times and author of The Wizard of Lies, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how the media covered Bernie Madoff’s family and Ponzi scheme victims. She said that those who invested in Madoff’s scheme are often perceived as guilty, and are portrayed […]

November 18, 2011 – Theodore H. White Seminar on the Press and Politics with Tad Devine, Democratic media consultant for presidential campaigns; founder, Devine Mulvey; IOP Fellow; Thomas Frank, 2011 Nyhan Prize recipient; author and columnist, Harper’s magazine; Nia-Malika Henderson, national political reporter, The Washington Post; Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard University; staff writer, […]

November 15, 2011 — In the final days of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, Missy Ryan was held against her will in a Tripoli hotel. Ryan, a military correspondent with Reuters, shared her experience at a Shorenstein Center event. In the initial days of the conflict, Ryan and about 30 foreign journalists were not allowed […]

November 9, 2011 – Screening of the documentary Miss Representation. Sponsored by the Shorenstein Center, KSSG and the Women and Public Policy Program.

November 8, 2011 – “Israeli Spring: The Unanswered Jewish Question.” Lecture with Roger Cohen, International Herald Tribune/New York Times columnist, and Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project. Co-sponsored by the Belfer Center.

November 8, 2011 — Cüneyt Ülsever, a freelance journalist in Turkey, said at a Shorenstein Center event that Turkey is on an “open path” headed toward the “rule of one man: Erdoğan.” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the current Prime Minister of Turkey and the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has provided his people […]

November 1, 2011 — Dan Wasserman, editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe, describes himself as a “savage” and part of an “endangered species.” The reason there are “fewer than 50” editorial cartoonists today, he said at a Shorenstein Center event, is because of their “loss of habitat: a shrinkage in newspapers willing to put up […]

October 26, 2011 — “Debates matter,” said Institute of Politics Director Trey Grayson, in introducing Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, at an event co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the IOP. Grayson cited the example of Texas Governor Rick Perry whose poll ratings have dropped after appearances in GOP presidential […]

October 25, 2011 — To discuss the impact of technology on citizen and state dynamics, Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the Arab […]