Events

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 […]

April 7, 2011 – A discussion with Glenn Greenwald, constitutional lawyer; contributing writer at Salon.com, where he writes one of the most widely read political and legal blogs on the Internet. Co-sponsored with the Middle East Initiative and the Harvard Kennedy School Progressive Student Caucus.

April 6, 2011 – Business & Government Seminar Series with Simon Lewis, Chief Executive, Association for Financial Markets in Europe; former official spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Queen. Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and the Shorenstein Center.

April 5, 2011 — Caroline Tolbert has been researching and tracking digital literacy in the United States. As professor of political science at the University of Iowa, she studies the divide between the availability of Internet access and use of the Internet. Tolbert presented her research at the Shorenstein Center, and revealed the many barriers […]

April 4, 2011 — Emily Bell previously worked at the Guardian News and Media as director of digital content and has recently taken a position at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism as director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. She spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the importance of bringing in experts outside […]

March 29, 2011 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media with Wajahat Khan, Shorenstein Fellow and broadcast and print journalist in Pakistan; and Emma Sky, Institute of Politics Fellow and former political advisor to General Ray T. Odierno, in Iraq. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation […]

March 29, 2011 — The problematic American democratic system is the subject of a new book by Eric Alterman, Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama. Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; columnist for The Nation; and regular contributor to The Daily Beast, spoke at the […]