digital HKS Monday Seminar with Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC and 2017-2018 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow. Conversation moderated by Anne Schwieger, Broadband and Digital Equity Advocate for the City of Boston and digital HKS Practitioner Affiliate. digital HKS Monday seminars take students, faculty, and staff on a deep dive into a digital/tech topic as […]

Jackie Calmes is the White House editor for the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau. She was previously a New York Times national correspondent, covering politics and policy. Calmes also worked at The Wall Street Journal for 18 years, where she covered Congress, elections, the Clinton and Bush administrations, and often focused on fiscal policy. She […]

Cosponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Featuring speakers: Nicole Hemmer, Assistant Professor in Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center; Shorenstein Center Fellow Tyler Bridges; and Saida Grundy, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Boston University. The talk will be moderated by Karen Finney, a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics […]

Tom Wheeler, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year, served as the Chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama. For more than three decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services, experiencing the revolution in telecommunications as a policy expert, an advocate, and a […]

Join the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School on October 20 for an afternoon conference on The Future of Advertising and Publishing: Finding new revenue models for journalism in the digital age. Panels will feature academics, journalists, media executives […]

E.J. Dionne Jr. Opinion Writer, The Washington Post William H. Bloomberg Visiting Professor, Harvard Divinity School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Sally Quinn American Author and Journalist Author, Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir  Jonathan L. Walton Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University Professor of Religion and […]

Nancy Scola is a senior technology reporter for Politico. For more than a decade, Scola has covered the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy for a variety of outlets. She has served as a tech policy reporter for The Washington Post, a tech and politics correspondent for The Atlantic, and a contributing writer at […]

Wael Ghonim Entrepreneurship Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School Computer engineer, internet activist, and social entrepreneur Author, Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater than the People in Power Marshall Ganz Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Zeynep Tufekci Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Author, Twitter […]

**Attendance limited to Harvard ID holders.** Michael Pollan is author of five New York Times Best Sellers: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, The Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food, Food Rules and, mostly recently, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. In 2010 he was named one of the 100 most […]

Alexandra Petri writes The Washington Post’s ComPost blog, offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day. She is the author of A Field Guide to Awkward Silences. She joined the Post as an intern in 2010, after graduating from Harvard College.

Marvin Kalb is a distinguished journalist, author, and the founding director of the Shorenstein Center. Kalb’s journalism career included three decades of award-winning reporting for CBS and NBC News as chief diplomatic correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and anchor of NBC’s Meet the Press. Kalb is the Murrow Professor emeritus at Harvard Kennedy School and hosts […]

Edward Morris works with photography, video, writing, and installation. He is Professor of Practice in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, and co-director of the Canary Lab. He works in collaboration with his wife Susannah Sayler as Sayler/Morris. In 2006 Sayler/Morris co-founded the Canary Project, a collaborative that produces visual media and artworks […]

The 2017 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics will be delivered by Nancy Gibbs, Editorial Director, Time Inc. News Group; Former Editor, Time Magazine. Also at the event, the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism will be presented to Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe columnist.  Watch the live stream at the Harvard IOP website.  Nancy […]

Join us for a discussion with Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgia State University and author of, "Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism." Ash Center Director Tony Saich will moderate. Lunch will be provided. This event is presented by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and cosponsored by the Fairbank Center […]

Caroline Atkinson, Head of Global Policy at Google As globalization has come under fire, so have the companies that represent the ultimate borderless terrain -- the internet. Cool new technologies, and the companies that make them, are still favorites with consumers.  But politicians, governments and commentators are increasingly questioning the role of digital technology companies in […]

Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post, writing on journalism ethics, free speech, and the intersection of politics and the news media. Before joining The Post in 2016, she was The New York Times public editor, and previously, the chief editor of The Buffalo News, her hometown paper where she started as […]

Garrett M. Graff is a journalist and author of several books including The Threat Matrix: The FBI At War, which traces the history of the FBI’s counterterrorism efforts. He has spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security. Today, he serves as the director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology […]

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles will discuss their collaborative book, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, & Driving Us Crazy, which, through satire, explores the thinking behind climate change denial in the face of overwhelming scientific […]

Elizabeth Bruenig is a columnist at The Washington Post, where she writes about ethics, politics, theology, and economics from a progressive point of view. She lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and daughter.