Events

December 10, 2008 — Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was no doubt transformational, but will his presidency be just as transforming? Adam Nagourney, national political reporter at the New York Times, addressed this question at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, which was co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Nagourney began his talk by outlining just what […]

December 2, 2008 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag discussion, “The First 100 Days,” Jonathan Alter, columnist for Newsweek magazine, said that Barack Obama is optimally positioned to succeed. The transition comes at an opportune time, Alter said, because the president-elect can use the recent economic bailout as leverage when working with Congress. “If it’s […]

November 21, 2008 – Theodore H. White Seminar with Congressman John Lewis; Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Alex Castellanos, political media consultant and Fellow at the Institute of Politics; Maralee Schwartz, Visiting Murrow Lecturer in the Practice of Press and Public Policy, Shorenstein Center, and former political editor at the Washington Post; and Cynthia Tucker, […]

November 20, 2008 — The 2008 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics took place on a cold evening, but the atmosphere inside the forum of the John F. Kennedy School of Government was radiant. After a welcome by Dean David Ellwood, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones introduced the winner of the 2008 […]

November 19, 2008 — The United States needs to update financial regulation to acknowledge the global economy of the 21st century in order to prevent today’s global financial crisis from happening again, according to a panel of financial experts. The future of U.S. economic regulation was discussed in the Nov. 19, 2008, John F. Kennedy, […]

November 19, 2008 — James A. Johnson got his first taste of presidential transitions in 1976, after Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford in hard-fought contest. “The day after the election, we loaded up on the campaign plane and the entire travelling press of the entire staff of the Mondale for Vice President campaign was introduced […]

November 13, 2008 — Provocative language from the political extremes has a long history in America, but changes in the media landscape over the last 20 years have given such voices great power and reach. Rory O’Connor, Fall 2008 Sagan Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, gave a tour of the talk-radio landscape, and it was […]

November 12, 2008 — The 2008 election was one of the most analyzed, debated, and watched in American history. Whether working for the mainstream press or in the new-media jungle of websites and blogs, reporters and commentators were everywhere, and none more so than those of CNN. “There was not one piece of tape anywhere, […]

November 4, 2008 — Maralee Schwartz, Visiting Edward R. Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of the Press and Public Policy, began her talk at the Shorenstein Center at noon on Tuesday, November 4. The election was just underway, and Barack Obama had not yet become our 44th president. But Schwartz, described by Shorenstein Center director […]

October 24, 2008 – Shorenstein Center releases Journalism School Curriculum Enrichment, part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.