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JFK Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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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 […]
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October 24, 2008 – Shorenstein Center releases Journalism School Curriculum Enrichment, part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.
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October 21, 2008 — Editor of washingtonpost.com Elizabeth Spayd has a print background, but an online future – a reflection of journalism today. Spayd spoke Tuesday about the future of newsrooms in a world increasingly focused towards online news content at a brown bag lunch sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics […]
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October 14, 2008 — The title of Lynn Sweet’s talk at the Shorenstein Center was “The 2008 Road to the White House,” and what a road it’s been. “You have two unlikely candidates who have taken this route to the White House,” said Sweet, a columnist and Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times. “Who […]
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October 6 , 2008 — The head of news and politics at YouTube spoke Monday at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government about the impact of online video in the current election. Steve Grove MPP 2006 cites the birth of YouTube politics as the video of former Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen using […]
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October 1, 2008 — Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, had no shortage of kind words as he introduced the inaugural Richard S. Salant Lecturer, Anthony Lewis. Lewis, a two-time Pulitzer winner, was “a man who has come to embody the battle to keep the First Amendment vibrant and vigorous,” and whose work […]
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October 1, 2008 — When it comes to interpreting public-opinion polls, Peter Hart knows a thing or two. After all, he’s been doing them for more than 40 years. “You have to have a strong stomach and very steady hands,” he says. Then there’s the recent poll he did that goes into uncharted territory, literally. […]
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September 30, 2008 — “You should all be very afraid. The Internet is much less secure than you can imagine.” Strong words, and even more so because they came from Paul Sagan, the president and CEO of Akamai. Sagan came to the Shorenstein Center on September 30 to talk about “‘Clever and Cool’ Innovations on the […]
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September 23, 2008 — Notch one Republican for Obama. Not as a supporter, of course — after all, Alex Castellanos, a fellow at the Institute of Politics this semester, has spent more than two decades working as a media consultant for Republican candidates, including George Bush, Mitt Romney, and now John McCain. But in a […]
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September 19, 2008 — While keyed to an event now three years in the past, the subject of Jed Horne’s brown-bag lunch, “Governance vs. Laissez-Faire in Rebuilding New Orleans,” couldn’t have been more timely. “I don’t think there’s ever been a moment when the role of government and the limits of government have ever been […]
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Inaugurated in 1989, the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, politician or historian on a topic at the intersection of media and politics. Past lecturers include Jill Lepore, John Lewis, William Safire, and Walter Cronkite.
Theodore H. White Lecture
The Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press is delivered annually by a prominent journalist, scholar or practitioner on a topic related to press freedom or freedom of speech.
Salant Lecture
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