Prizes & Lectures Audio & Video
Taylor Branch: Journalism allowed trivialization of public debate
November 12, 2009, 6:28 pmNovember 12, 2009 — In introducing Taylor Branch, the 2009 T.H. White Lecturer, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones began by describing Branch’s youth in the segregated south of the 1950s. It was a place of “whites only” entrances, of Lester Maddox…
Jonathan Zittrain delivers 2009 Richard S. Salant Lecture
October 22, 2009, 6:03 pmOctober 22, 2009 — Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, began the second annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press with a tour of…