Events

October 26, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with David Hoffman, contributing editor, The Washington Post. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs.

October 22, 2009 — Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, began the second annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press with a tour of the absurd: A job applicant being mistaken for a computer expert and interviewed live on […]

October 20, 2009 — In a Shorenstein Center discussion, Jim Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs, referred to his own experiences at the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Daily News to talk about the future of the newspaper business. Hoge outlined two categories of essential news: accountability journalism, in which the “conduct of public affairs” […]

October 16, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with Dale Mezzacappa, award-winning education reporter and president of the Education Writers Association. Moderated by IOP Fellow Gina Glantz. Co-sponsored by the Communications and Media Professional Interest Council (PIC) and Education PIC.

October 14, 2009 —Time magazine columnist Joe Klein was introduced at the Shorenstein brown-bag lunch by Director Alex S. Jones as “deeply informed, outspoken, clear thinking,” in covering the “troublesome parts of world affairs.” Klein spoke on Obama’s foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iran, describing his own experiences in that part of the world as […]

October 13, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Major Garrett, senior White House correspondent for Fox News, discussed covering a historic campaign and presidency, and the “public feud” between the White House communications office and his network. The feud concerns a statement from White House communications director Anita Dunn about Fox News. Garrett […]

October 6, 2009 – Discussion with Ibrahim Barzaq, correspondent, The Associated Press and Nieman Fellow and Gabriella Blum, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

October 6, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Media Cloud and Quantitative Analysis,” Ethan Zuckerman, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and co-founder of Media Cloud, explained how his new project attempts to track news coverage over time. Media analysis in its current state is “really easy to do […]

October 5, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with Iason Athanasiadis, photojournalist and former Nieman Fellow. Moderated by Stephen Williams, Shorenstein Fellow; BBC producer responsible for the creation of BBC Persian TV. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

September 30, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center sponsored a briefing for journalists on health care reform at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The event featured two panels moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy: The first panel was “News Coverage of Health Reform: Metanarratives […]