Events

October 11, 2011 — The founding director of the Shorenstein Center, Marvin Kalb, author of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, revisited the Center to talk about how a lost war still influences White House war policy. Kalb’s book, which he co-wrote with his daughter Deborah Kalb, poses the question: […]

October 6, 2011 — “Times have never been tougher or bleaker,” said Peter Hart, chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, at an event sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and Institute of Politics. After 50 years of public opinion polling, Hart said that he has “never felt less certain of the outcome than I do […]

October 4, 2011 — Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post-AOL Media Group and contributing news analyst to NBC and MSNBC, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “HuffPost, the Web and the Campaign of 2012.” “What AOL/Huffington Post wants to be,” Fineman explained, “is the best combination of news and community on the web.” […]

September 27, 2011 — Wall Street and Washington share responsibility for the current economic crisis, according to Jeff Madrick, who discussed his new book Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, at the Shorenstein Center. Madrick, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and […]

Andy Carvin, Senior Strategist at NPR, spoke with Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones and took questions at a brownbag lunch at the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.

September 13, 2011 — At the first installment of the Fall semester speaker series, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Jessica Yellin, Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, to speak about “Covering the White House in a Bare-knuckled Media Culture.” Yellin outlined several “hazards” of working in cable news. First, the “rise of everyone as a reporter” […]

May 17, 2011 — Congress must adopt a “balanced strategy” to address the country’s long-term fiscal health and avert the looming crisis over the national debt limit, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner at an event hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Watch the video. Read the transcript (PDF). […]

April 26, 2011 – “South Africa: Press, Politics and Development in the Post-Apartheid Era.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the Media with Bob Giles, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and Rob Rose, business reporter for South Africa’s Sunday Times and 2011 Nieman Fellow.

April 20, 2011 — Vivian Schiller, former CEO and president of National Public Radio, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how public and commercial news organizations can learn from each other to be successful and relevant in the future. As veteran of both for-profit and non-profit media, and currently “on the sidelines,” Schiller offered advice […]

April 12, 2011 — Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times assistant business and financial editor and columnist, has some good things to say about the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation act, but the list is short. Enacted after the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the bill’s stated intent is to reform Wall Street and protect consumers. The resulting legislation is far […]