Events

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 […]

November 16, 2010 –  Joined by Richard Todd, Kidder’s long-time editor. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director.

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 […]

November 15, 2010 — The Shorenstein Center hosted an event for students to discuss the economy with Douglas W. Shorenstein, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Chairman and CEO of Shorenstein Properties LLC; and T. Gary Rogers, Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, former Chairman and […]

November 15, 2010 –  The Kalb Report with Douglas Brinkley, historian; Sam Donaldson, ABC News; and Martha Joynt Kumar, historian. Moderated by Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus. The series is produced jointly by the George Washington University Global Media Institute, the Shorenstein Center and the National Press Club.

November 15, 2010 — The 2010 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Rachel Maddow‘s T.H. White Lecture. The seminar panelists were Mindy Finn, GOP online political consultant; Charles Gibson, former ABC News anchor and Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center; William Greider, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and recipient […]

November 9, 2010 — David All, founder of TechRepublican.com and president of the David All Group, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “How to Reach, Engage and Empower Brand Activists.” As an early Republican blogger on Capitol Hill, All says he “learned quickly the power of earned media,” and found that he could “create media […]

November 2, 2010 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Renée Loth, Boston Globe columnist, to discuss this year’s midterm campaign’s particular influx of political attack ads. This has been “the most expensive midterm election in the history of the country,” said Loth, with more than $4 billion spent on advertising. There has been […]

November 1, 2010 — In his Shorenstein Center discussion, “Twenty-first Century Statecraft,” Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sketched the impact of technology on the historical tension between open and closed societies. Ross said there is a “contest buried within” every historical society: “the struggle between open […]