Attend the 2026 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics with preeminent documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Shorenstein Center Director, Nancy Gibbs, will hold a fireside chat with Burns in the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School.
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JFK Jr. Forum, HKS
6:00 PM
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August 24, 2008 – “The Press and the Election: A Conversation with Sunday Morning TV Moderators,” a panel discussion at the Democratic National Convention in Denver with Tom Brokaw, NBC News; Bob Schieffer, CBS News; and George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, and moderated by Judy Woodruff, PBS.
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June 20, 2008 – A two-day conference sponsored by Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education. Learn more.
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April 29, 2008 – Brown-bag lunch with Steve Clemons, publisher of the political blog, “The Washington Note,” is a Senior Fellow and Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.
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April 24, 2008 – “Of Spies and Spokesmen.” Brown-bag lunch with Nicholas Daniloff, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and former foreign correspondent for U. S. News & World Report.
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April 22, 2008 – Brown-bag lunch with Jeanne Cummings, senior political correspondent at Politico.
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April 15, 2008 – “A Great Divide in a Historic Campaign.” Brown-bag lunch with Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group.
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April 14, 2008 – “Covering the Global Rise of Organised Crime.” Brown-bag lunch with Misha Glenny, author and BBC correspondent.
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April 11, 2008 – “Media Tenor of the Presidential Campaign.” Brown-bag lunch with Roland Schatz, president of Media Tenor Ltd, a provider of international media-content analysis.
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April 9, 2008 – The Shorenstein Center hosted a discussion for reporters on the state of the economy in New York City.
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April 7, 2008 – “The Arab and American Media: Communication Tool or Weapon of War?” Brown-bag lunch with Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper and an internationally syndicated political columnist.
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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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