Events

March 8, 2011 — David Sanger said he would “hardly argue that WikiLeaks was the cause of the uprisings” in the Middle East, “but it may have been one of the triggering events.” At a Shorenstein Center event entitled “From WikiLeaks to Cairo: Six Months That Changed International Reporting,” Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The […]

March 8, 2011 — On the morning after the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony, the winners and finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting gathered to discuss the stories behind the stories: the dedication, work and hard questions that went into each investigation. The winners of the Goldsmith Prize, Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las […]

March 7, 2011 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las Vegas Sun by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for their investigative report “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas.” Watch the video. Read the transcript […]

March 1, 2011 — Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, spoke at a Shorenstein Center event about “Tools for Democracy: Information for the Body Politic.” In introducing Miller, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones described the Sunlight Foundation as “one of those journalistic enterprises…that you can think of genuinely as moral […]

February 28, 2011 – PON Film Series Presents: Knocking with a discussion with film producer and director Joel Engardio. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Joan Shorenstein Center.

February 23, 2011 – Clean Energy and the Media Series with Alan Boyle, MSNBC.com science editor, and Bryan Walsh, Time magazine environment reporter. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

February 22, 2011 — At a Shorenstein Center event, “From the Front Lines to Online,” Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), looked at the past year in press freedom. He focused on CPJ’s recent publication of Attacks on the Press, a worldwide survey of the mistreatment of journalists in 2010. […]

February 22, 2011 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media with Hoochang Chehabi, professor of international relations and history at Boston University, and Nazila Fathi, reporter for The New York Times and currently a Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, […]

February 16, 2011 – Clean Energy and the Media Series with environment reporters Beth Daley, The Boston Globe, and Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center; Discussant Henry Lee, Belfer ENRP Program. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Audio

February 15, 2011 — Otto Santa Ana, an associate professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the “covert power of political humor and mock journalism.” In particular, he examined the roles of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jay Leno in political comedic discourse. A sociolinguist […]