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‘Google’s success is based on trust,’ says Ken Auletta
February 2, 2010, 8:55 amFebruary 2, 2010 — “Why not?” is the question that lies at the foundation of Google’s engineering, said Ken Auletta in a Shorenstein Center discussion about his new book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. Auletta,…
2010 Goldsmith book prizes, reporting finalists announced
January 29, 2010, 11:02 amJanuary 29, 2010 — Two winners of the Goldsmith Book Prize and six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School…
T.H. White Seminar discusses press’s role, responsibility
November 13, 2009, 8:23 amNovember 13, 2009 — The 2009 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Taylor Branch‘s T.H. White lecture, and brought together a distinguished group of panelists. Included were Dan Balz, political correspondent, The Washington Post; Elaine…
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…
Journalists, academics discuss ‘The Future of News’
November 2, 2009, 6:43 pmNovember 2, 2009 — At the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the Shorenstein Center, along with the Institute of Politics, presented “The Future of News,” a panel discussion with Robin Sproul, Washington Bureau Chief for ABC News; Alex S. Jones,…
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…
Shorenstein Center hosts briefing on health care reform
September 30, 2009, 11:37 amSeptember 30, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center sponsored a briefing for journalists on health care reform at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The event featured two panels moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the…
‘Accountability journalism’ is at risk, says Clay Shirky
September 22, 2009, 11:43 amSeptember 22, 2009 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Internet Issues Facing Newspapers,” Clay Shirky described the changing news landscape that has put accountability journalism at risk, and he outlined a “journalistic ecosystem” that is needed to preserve essential…
Gwen Ifill wins 2009 Goldsmith career award
March 17, 2009, 4:08 pmMarch 17, 2009 — The winners of the Shorenstein Center’s annual Goldsmith career award are by definition accomplished. But in listing all the achievements of this year’s recipient, Gwen Ifill, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones chose to focus on…
Washington Post team wins 2009 Goldsmith reporting prize
March 17, 2009, 4:00 pmMarch 17, 2009 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post for their investigative report “Forced Out.” The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public…
