Events

September 29, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “How Do We Grow From Here? The American Economy After the Great Recession,” New York Times Economic Scene columnist David Leonhardt stressed the importance of maintaining economic growth in the United States and suggestions for increasing it. It’s the “worst recession in a generation,” Leonhardt said, […]

September 22, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Internet Issues Facing Newspapers,” Clay Shirky described the changing news landscape that has put accountability journalism at risk, and he outlined a “journalistic ecosystem” that is needed to preserve essential watchdog role of the press. Shirky, who writes on social and economic effects of Internet […]

September 15, 2009 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict with Susan Hackley, managing director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and James Reynolds, China correspondent for BBC News and Nieman Fellow. Moderator: Donna Hicks, Associate of the Weatherhead Center. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation […]

September 15, 2009 — To kick off the fall brown-bag speaker series, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Candy Crowley, CNN‘s senior political correspondent. Introducing Crowley, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones said that she “stands for a kind of journalism that is genuinely endangered but that she fulfills at its highest level.” The title of Crowley’s […]

September 8, 2009 – Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for fall 2009. Learn more; press release

May 6, 2009 — Zephyr Teachout, visiting assistant professor of law at Duke University, spoke at the Shorenstein Center about the crumbling barriers to the globalization of electioneering. Teachout began her talk, “The Future of ‘Internet Campaigning’: The Globalization of Local Elections,” by looking at the barriers that until recently have limited foreign influence in […]

May 5, 2009 – A conversation with Rory Stewart, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Hosted by the Shorenstein Center, the Nieman Foundation, the Weatherhead Center and the Program on Negotiation.

April 28, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center, together with the Knight Science Fellowship program and MIT, presented “The Future of Science Journalism,” a forum at the third-annual Cambridge Science Festival, held at the MIT Museum. Introductory remarks were given by Dr. Susan Hockfield, president of MIT. Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, […]

April 28, 2009 — In a multimedia presentation at the Shorenstein Center, Philip S. Balboni demonstrated how his newest media venture is “transforming the coverage of international news in the digital age.” President and CEO of GlobalPost, Balboni is a “committed optimist” who asserts that we are “living in one of the great historic moments […]

April 21, 2009 — Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge magazine and contributor to The New York Review of Books, discussed “Who Caused the Crisis and What We Can Do” at the Center’s brown-bag lunch. The cause of the economic crisis, Madrick summarized, is that “we became prisoners of anti-government ideology” that was “beneficial to the […]