Audio & Video
Hart: Democrats will hold Senate, GOP will take House in midterms
October 7, 2010, 8:58 amOctober 7, 2010 — Twenty-six days out from the 2010 midterm elections, Peter D. Hart looked at whether Democrats should expect a “Category 3 or 5 Hurricane.” The chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates and one of the leading…
Panel looks at legacy of David Halberstam, future of news
October 6, 2010, 6:02 pmOctober 6, 2010 — David L. Halberstam died doing what he loved, hunting down a story. The intrepid author, reporter, and Harvard graduate who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War, which called into question the…
Microsoft’s Jaron Lanier sees need for online ‘middle class’
October 4, 2010, 6:07 pmOctober 4, 2010 — Jaron Lanier, partner architect at Microsoft Research and innovator in residence at the Annenberg School of the University of Southern California, led a Shorenstein Center discussion about “Seeing Through the Fog of Digital Fads.” Lanier, author…
Suskind says good journalism affronts ‘message management’
September 14, 2010, 10:25 amSeptember 14, 2010— Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and nonfiction author of The Way of the World and The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind spoke at a Shorenstein Center event about “Truth-telling versus Message Control: A Dilemma for Sources and Reporters.” There…
Huffington: Economic crisis is a threat to our democracy
September 14, 2010, 8:29 amSeptember 14, 2010 — Arianna Huffington‘s talk, “The New Media Landscape,” was a tour through a world that the founder of The Huffington Post herself reshaped. She launched the blog-centered Huffington Post in 2005 in part as a counterweight to aggregation…
Clergy scandal shows power of old and new media
April 20, 2010, 5:05 pmApril 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…
Google’s Greenberger presents efficiency of online campaigning
April 6, 2010, 5:19 pmApril 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…
Al Jazeera focused on providing context to western audiences
April 5, 2010, 12:30 pmApril 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,…
Panel looks at the possibility of trying to ‘fix’ the earth’s climate
March 31, 2010, 5:36 pmMarch 31, 2010 — The third and final event in the Climate Change and the Media Seminar Series, “Techno-Optimism or Pessimism: ‘Fixing’ the Planet’s Climate Problems,” lived up to the dramatic promise of its title. There was no lack of…
‘Law & Order’ producer sees new media as conduit of social change
March 30, 2010, 5:40 pmMarch 30, 2010 — Neal Baer, executive producer of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, spoke at a Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event of the “power of television to promote social change.” A self-described “confector of stories,” Baer said…
