Events

February 4, 2010 — The first of three Shorenstein Center/Belfer Center seminars on news coverage of climate change, “The Public Divide over Climate Change: Scientists, Skeptics and the Media,” was itself a lively debate. The panel featured Andrew C. Revkin of the New York Times‘ Dot Earth blog, Matthew Nisbet of American University, and Tom […]

February 2, 2010 — “Why not?” is the question that lies at the foundation of Google’s engineering, said Ken Auletta in a Shorenstein Center discussion about his new book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. Auletta, who writes the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker, described a landscape where […]

January 29, 2010 — Two winners of the Goldsmith Book Prize and six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The winner of the investigative reporting prize, which carries a cash award of […]

January 26, 2010 – The fellows are Deborah Amos, NPR; Steven Dong, Tsinghua University; Gene Gibbons, Stateline.org; and Peter Maass, The New York Times Magazine. Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University, will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Press release

December 8, 2009 – Kelman Seminar with Eileen Babbitt, Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law […]

December 1, 2009 — As ProPublica‘s editor of distributed reporting, Amanda Michel differentiated between “networked newsgathering” and “citizen journalism” at a Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk. According to Michel, “the term ‘citizen journalist’ has done a real disservice” to the journalism profession. It has “evoked a platonic ideal of someone who is a substitute good … someone […]

November 17, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-TN), gave an overview of a politician’s perspective of the media. Addressing the question of new media competing with traditional news organizations, Ford said that the advantage of new […]

November 16, 2009 – A conversation with Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and Democratic nominee for president in 1988, and Renee Loth, The Boston Globe. Moderated by Dan Okrent, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

November 13, 2009 — The 2009 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Taylor Branch‘s T.H. White lecture, and brought together a distinguished group of panelists. Included were Dan Balz, political correspondent, The Washington Post; Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor […]

November 12, 2009 — In introducing Taylor Branch, the 2009 T.H. White Lecturer, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones began by describing Branch’s youth in the segregated south of the 1950s. It was a place of “whites only” entrances, of Lester Maddox and Martin Luther King Jr. “For southerners of Taylor Branch’s generation … the Civil Rights […]