Attend the 2026 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics with preeminent documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Shorenstein Center Director, Nancy Gibbs, will hold a fireside chat with Burns in the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School.
Event
JFK Jr. Forum, HKS
6:00 PM
Newest
February 7, 2011 — The Shorenstein Center welcomed Jeff Zucker, former president and CEO of NBC Universal, to a conversation with Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director. With the recent announcement of AOL‘s acquisition of the Huffington Post, the discussion centered around the future of the news in online and television formats. Zucker said that […]
Event
February 1, 2011 – Herbert C. Kelman Series on International Conflict with Kevin Doyle, editor-in-chief of The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh and 2011 Nieman Fellow; Stephen Marks, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Co-sponsored with […]
Event
January 19, 2011 – The Shorenstein Center announces its 2011 Spring Fellows: Bob Calo, UC Berkeley; Alexis Gelber, formerly, Newsweek; Wajahat S. Khan, Dawn News TV (Pakistan); Neil Lewis, formerly, The New York Times; Sandy Rowe, formerly, The Oregonian. Learn More; Press release.
Event
December 9, 2010 – Screening of Inside Job followed by a discussion with Charles Ferguson, director and producer; founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Event
December 7, 2010 – Herbert C. Kelman Series on International Conflict with Paul Bricker, Colonel in the United States Army and Weatherhead Center Fellow; and Abdul Waheed Wafa, reporter for The New York Times in Kabul, Afghanistan and Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law […]
Event
December 7, 2010 — Husband and wife co-authors David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill joined the Shorenstein Center to discuss their new book, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides, an account of the couple’s experience during Rohde’s seven-month captivity by the Taliban. Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times […]
Event
November 30, 2010 — At a Shorenstein Center event, Cheryl Contee, partner at Fission Strategy and co-founder of the political blog Jack & Jill Politics, explored the “Rise of African-American Online Political Influentials.” Contee said that she sees herself not as a figure of the media or of politics, but as “a concerned citizen working toward […]
Event
November 22, 2010 — The Shorenstein Center hosted a special conversation with Brit Hume, senior political analyst for Fox News. Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, moderated the conversation. Hume, who previously worked with Shorenstein Center Fellow Charlie Gibson at ABC News, left ABC to join the Fox News Network, and he said it […]
Event
November 16, 2010 – Joined by Richard Todd, Kidder’s long-time editor. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director.
Event
November 16, 2010 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict with Guillermo Perry, Robert F. Kennedy visiting professor at Harvard University and research associate at Fedesarrollo, Colombia; and Pablo Corral, photojournalist from Ecuador and 2010–11 Nieman Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the […]
Event
Inaugurated in 1989, the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, politician or historian on a topic at the intersection of media and politics. Past lecturers include Jill Lepore, John Lewis, William Safire, and Walter Cronkite.
Theodore H. White Lecture
The Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, scholar or practitioner on a topic related to press freedom or freedom of speech.
Salant Lecture
Subscribe to get alerts in your inbox about upcoming virtual and on-campus Shorenstein Center events.