Events

April 6, 2010 — Peter D. Greenberger started the first political advertising team at Google, Inc., and at a visit to the Shorenstein Center, he explained why and how Google has gotten involved in the political realm. Greenberger, currently Google’s head of industry relations, outlined several reasons for Google’s political involvement in the last three […]

April 5, 2010 — What role does new media play in covering health care reform? To answer this question, a panel including Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and management at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard School of Public Health; Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor at ABC News; Ezra Klein, blogger on economic and domestic policy for […]

April 5, 2010 — With notes prepared on his new iPad, Ayman Mohyeldin, Gaza correspondent for Al Jazeera English, spoke at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event about “Covering Gaza under Siege and War.” Using examples from his experience covering cross-cultural misunderstandings, Mohyeldin emphasized what he sees as the most important thing about journalism today: context. There […]

April 1, 2010 – Deborah Amos, the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Fellow and NPR’s Iraq correspondent, discusses her book, Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store.

March 31, 2010 — The third and final event in the Climate Change and the Media Seminar Series, “Techno-Optimism or Pessimism: ‘Fixing’ the Planet’s Climate Problems,” lived up to the dramatic promise of its title. There was no lack of stark images, dramatic turns of phrase, and daring ideas so far out there that, as […]

March 30, 2010 — Neal Baer, executive producer of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, spoke at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event of the “power of television to promote social change.” A self-described “confector of stories,” Baer said that he strives to produce television programs that “entertain because they are compelling, not mind-numbing […]

March 24, 2010 — The winner and five other finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting gathered this morning to share their personal stories of journalistic commitment and determination in the face of skepticism, obstruction and even intimidation. The seminar, titled “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting,” featured journalists from The Raleigh News […]

March 23, 2010 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for “Cashing In on Kids.” The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy administers the award, which was presented by Bradlee Professor of Government Thomas E. Patterson. In Rutledge’s year-long […]

March 23, 2010 — With the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony just a few hours away, Matthew Hindman, winner of the 2010 Goldsmith Book Prize, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about his book, The Myth of Digital Democracy. Hindman, assistant professor at Arizona State University, explained that the book is a response to the claim that the […]

March 10, 2010 — Laptops, personal digital assistants, and iPhones were a ubiquitous and fitting presence at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at “Digital Governance: From the State House to the White House.” As audience members tapped away on their myriad electronic devices, Jerry Mechling, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) lecturer in public policy and […]