**Harvard ID only** David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter at The Washington Post covering politics. He has recently won acclaim for his coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election, particularly his investigations of Donald J. Trump's charitable foundation and philanthropic giving, for which he received the Post's inaugural Ben Bradlee Prize. He is a graduate of Harvard […]

Sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Featuring speakers: Juliet Eilperin, Senior National Affairs correspondent, The Washington Post Chris Mooney, Energy & Environment reporter, The Washington Post Juliet Eilperin is The Washington Post’s White House bureau chief, covering […]

Dafna Linzer is managing editor of politics for NBC News and MSNBC. She previously served as managing editor of MSNBC Online. Before joining MSNBC, she was an award-winning senior investigative reporter at ProPublica and is the author of "Shades of Mercy," a series and e-book on racial bias in presidential pardons. Previously, she covered national […]

Featuring Speakers: Helen Boaden, Spring 2017 Joan Shorenstein Fellow; Director, BBC Radio Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and […]

Rick Stengel served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2014-2016. He was Time magazine’s 16th managing editor and has had a long and distinguished career as a journalist. At Time, he held positions as senior writer and essayist, and national editor. He has also written for The New Yorker, The […]

A panel discussion with:   Meighan Stone (moderator), Entrepreneurship Fellow, Spring 2017,  Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; President, Malala Fund Debra Cleaver Founder & CEO, Vote.org Leah Greenberg Co-Founder, Indivisible Andrea Hailey Founder, Civic Engagement Fund Amanda Litman Founder, Run for Something Jess Morales Rocketto Digital Community Organizer, OccupyAirports Co-sponsored by the Harvard […]

The presentation of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Book Prize, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. Goldsmith Career Award winner Jorge Ramos will deliver a keynote speech. This event is ticketed, and all tickets have already been distributed by a lottery system.  Watch the livestream on the IOP website. Learn more about […]

A panel discussion with the winner and finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Journalists from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Sarasota Herald-Tribune and The Wall Street Journal will discuss the making of their investigative reports. Featuring:  • Shane Bauer, senior reporter, Mother Jones • David Cloud, reporter, Washington bureau, […]

Farai Chideya, Joan Shorenstein Fellow, senior writer at FiveThirtyEight.  Farai Chideya has covered every election since 1996 for outlets including CNN, NPR, and, in 2016, FiveThirtyEight, where she is a senior writer. Chideya is the author of six books, including Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, The Color of Our Future and Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting […]

A panel discussion with: Jill Abramson, Former Executive Editor, The New York Times Noah Oppenheim, President, NBC News Sacha Pfeiffer, Journalist, Boston Globe, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Journalist and Radio Host Jim Steyer, Founder & CEO, CommonSense.org and Adjunct Professor, Stanford University Richard Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer on Education and Faculty Director, Human Development and Psychology, Harvard Graduate of School of Education Nicco […]

**Harvard ID only** Douglas W. Elmendorf is Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he also serves as the Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy. Doug Elmendorf served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from January 2009 through March 2015. Prior to joining CBO, he was at […]

Masha Gessen is a Russian and American journalist, the author of ten books of nonfiction, including the 2012 bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and, most recently, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (coming from Riverhead in October). She is a contributing opinion writer to The New […]

Bhaskar Sunkara is an American political writer, editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine. The son of immigrants from Trinidad and Tobago, Sunkara described Jacobin as a radical publication, "largely the product of a younger generation not quite as tied to the Cold War paradigms that sustained the old leftist intellectual milieus like Dissent or New […]

Join David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior to his selection as Knight Visiting Fellow, Barboza most recently served as Shanghai bureau chief for the Times. Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, […]

We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed. We will reschedule for Fall 2017. Sarah Lewis is an Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard, an M.Phil from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from Yale […]

Moderated by Farai Chideya, Spring 2017 Joan Shorenstein Fellow. Please join us for a conversation with author and journalist, David Gregory, moderated by Shorenstein Fellow Farai Chideya. The two will discuss their shared background in journalism and the media's role in keeping leaders of all stripes accountable. They will also address media's influence on public discourse and shaping […]

Sarah Smarsh has reported on socioeconomic class, politics and public policy for The New Yorker and Harper's online, The Guardian, Guernica, Longreads and many others. Her book In the Red, on the American working poor and her own upbringing in rural Kansas, is forthcoming from Scribner. New essays will appear in Scratch: Writers, Money, and […]