Events

April 20, 2010 — At the final Shorenstein Center Speaker Series of the semester, Walter Robinson and Clay Shirky discussed how the case of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church illustrates the changing powers of old and new media. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University, is a former Boston Globe Pulitzer […]

April 15, 2010 – “Oil and Conflict: A View from the Front Lines.” Discussion and media presentation with Peter Maass, Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center; and photographer Ed Kashi. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

April 15, 2010 – “Health Care Reform through the Eyes of the Media.” Shorenstein Speaker Series event with David Broder, political correspondent and columnist, The Washington Post; Fellow, Institute of Politics (Fall ’69–Spring ’70); Shorenstein Center Advisory Board member. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics.

April 14, 2010 – Discussion with Tracy Van Slyke, author and director of the Media Consortium. Co-sponsored by the Media & Communications PIC, Gov 2.0 PIC and the Progressive Caucus.

April 13, 2010 – Kelman Seminar Series with Peter Galbraith, former ambassador to Croatia and former Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Afghanistan and an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the […]

April 13, 2010 — At a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event, Michael Tackett, Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News, spoke about the “need for quality” while being “bombarded with information.” In his talk, “News a Third Way: Substance and Speed in a World of Tweets,” Tackett provided a brief background of Bloomberg’s history. It began […]

April 6, 2010 — Peter D. Greenberger started the first political advertising team at Google, Inc., and at a visit to the Shorenstein Center, he explained why and how Google has gotten involved in the political realm. Greenberger, currently Google’s head of industry relations, outlined several reasons for Google’s political involvement in the last three […]

April 5, 2010 — What role does new media play in covering health care reform? To answer this question, a panel including Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and management at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard School of Public Health; Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor at ABC News; Ezra Klein, blogger on economic and domestic policy for […]

April 5, 2010 — With notes prepared on his new iPad, Ayman Mohyeldin, Gaza correspondent for Al Jazeera English, spoke at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event about “Covering Gaza under Siege and War.” Using examples from his experience covering cross-cultural misunderstandings, Mohyeldin emphasized what he sees as the most important thing about journalism today: context. There […]

April 1, 2010 – Deborah Amos, the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Fellow and NPR’s Iraq correspondent, discusses her book, Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store.