Events

November 16, 2012 – Theodore H. White Seminar with T.H. White Lecturer David Brooks; Cynthia Tucker, winner of the 2012 David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism; Amy Walter, ABC News Political Director; Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African American Studies; and John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for Slate magazine and political director of CBS News.

November 13, 2012 – Discussion with Mike Allen, chief political reporter for Politico, and writes the daily Playbook. Moderated by Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/the-role-of-new-media-in-election-coverage

November 6, 2012 — Speaker Series with Mark McKinnon, weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London Telegraph, and is a co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels which is dedicated to more civil discourse in politics. He is currently a Fellow at the Institute of Politics. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/the-presidential-election-2012-the-good-the-bad-an

November 5, 2012 – “Under Fire: Journalists in Combat.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Finbarr O’Reilly, Nieman Fellow and Reuters photographer; and trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk M.D., medical director at the Boston Trauma Center. Co-sponsored with the Nieman Foundation, the Weatherhead Center and the Program on Negotiation […]

October 25, 2012 – Discussion with David Ensor, Director of Voice of America and former CNN National Security Correspondent. Co-Sponsored with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

October 23, 2012 –  Steve Levy, senior writer at Wired magazine, spent two years immersed in the “Googleplex,” researching how the company works, how it makes money, and what it values. He shared with the Shorenstein Center three key takeaways that he learned from Google, which are featured in his book, In the Plex: How […]

October 18, 2012 – Discussion with Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition; author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi. Co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

October 17, 2012 – “Europe at a Crossroads: The story of Greece and what it reveals about structural problems in the Eurozone. ” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece, and Richard Parker, economist, political consultant, and Harvard Kennedy School lecturer. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead […]

October 17, 2012 – More than any other uprising in the Middle East, the Syrian uprising has made use of social media to shape and influence the narrative on both sides, said Deborah Amos, Middle East correspondent for National Public Radio. In 18 months of covering the Syrian revolution, she said that “young social media […]