Events

April 3, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown bag-lunch, Matt Baum, visiting associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, addressed the central question of what drives public opinion in times of foreign crises and wars. Baum asserted that public opinion tends to reflect elite rhetoric — whether of politicians themselves or the […]

March 19, 2007 — Michael Gerson, former policy adviser and speechwriter for President George W. Bush, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch about the moral trajectory of the Republican Party during Bush’s term of office. Gerson, who will become an op/ed writer for the Washington Post in May 2007, recounted that his first self-described […]

March 14, 2007 – Goldsmith Seminar, “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting,” with the finalists for the Goldsmith Prize on Investigative Reporting and representatives from the Center for Public Integrity: Walter V. Robinson, Michael Rezendes, Beth Healy, the Boston Globe; Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, the Los Angeles Times; Debbie Cenziper, the Miami Herald; Ken […]

March 13, 2007 — The 2007 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting was awarded to Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont of the Wall Street Journal. Using a combination of investigative reporting and scientific research the team revealed how, through “unethical manipulation,” top executives had amassed millions of dollars in stock options. The series led […]

March 13, 2007 — Marvin Kalb, founding director of the Center and a former reporter for CBS and NBC News, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch on his recent discussion paper The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict. Kalb illuminated the stark contrasts of how the respective governments […]

March 6, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Chris Isham, Chief of Investigative Projects for ABC News, described his unit as a “full service operation” that produces investigative-based programming “from soup to nuts” for the network’s entire news division. Isham expressed strong opinions about the issue of journalist-source confidentiality. He said that developing […]

February 27, 2007 — Adam Nagourney, national political reporter for the New York Times, addressed a full house on the topic of the media and the 2008 presidential campaign at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. The talk was cosponsored with the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. Nagourney debunked several misconceptions about the upcoming primary and […]

February 21, 2007 — Eric Klinenberg, at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, discussed his book Fighting For Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media. A sociologist at New York University, Klinenberg described the book as a “sociological ethnographic study” that addresses a central question on the minds of many media scholars, news consumers, and particularly […]

February 20, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Renee Ferguson inspired lively conversation and debate over the justification of breaking journalistic taboos — in this case, naming and visually identifying a rape victim — under the auspices of telling a good story. Ferguson, a current Nieman Fellow with more than 30 years of […]

February 14, 2007 — At his Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Floyd Abrams, an attorney specializing in freedom of speech and press issues, spoke about the intersection of law and journalism. Co-counsel for the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, Abrams was also one of Judith Miller’s attorneys in the recent CIA leak investigation. […]