November 1, 2005 — Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, addressed concerns about reporting on the war in Iraq in a discussion titled “The Glaring Gap in the Press Coverage of Iraq.” The author of Now They Tell Us, a collection of articles about press coverage on the war, Massing described […]

October 25, 2005 — Roberta Baskin visited the Shorenstein Center to lead a discussion entitled “What’s Right with Journalism.” A former chief investigative correspondent for the CBS News program 48 Hours, Baskin is now executive director at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts investigative research and reports on public policy

October 18, 2005: “NPR: With Friends Like These…” Brown-bag lunch with Michael McCauley, former radio journalist, associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and author of The Triumphs and Trials of National Public Radio.

October 17, 2005: “Housing, the Economy and the ‘Bubble’: The Wall Street Journal.” Brown-bag lunch with Robert Haggerty, housing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

October 11, 2005 — Suzanne Malveaux, White House correspondent for CNN, spoke to students and other members of the Kennedy School community about her experiences covering the Bush administration. While unable to speak with complete candor about the inner workings of the administration, Malveaux — who has covered the Bush White House for four years

October 4, 2005 — Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for Time magazine, visited the Shorenstein Center to share her views in a talk she called “The New Cronyism: How Many More Mike Browns are Out There?” As New Orleans continues to roil from the shock of Hurricane Katrina, many have begun to question the credentials

October 3, 2005: “Housing in Boston: The View from the Globe.” Brown-bag lunch with Kim Blanton, housing reporter for the Boston Globe. Co-sponsored with the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

September 30, 2005: “Land of the Settlers: From the Notebook of an Israeli TV Journalist.” Presentation by Chaim Yavin, news anchor at Channel 1 (Israel), who has had a distinguished career in broadcast news covering a wide range of topics from Israeli society and politics to the Arab Israeli conflict and efforts at peace. Segments from

September 29, 2005: “Democracy: The Human Cost.” Brown-bag lunch with Michael Goldfarb, former senior correspondent of WBUR’s Inside Out. Goldfarb covered major conflicts from Bosnia to Iraq, conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, and covered British politics and culture. A 2002 Shorenstein fellow, Goldfarb won a DuPont-Columbia Award for his report, Surviving Torture: Inside Out, and, this

September 27, 2005 — Michael Isikoff, an investigative correspondent for Newsweek magazine, spoke at a brown-bag luncheon titled “Sourcing the News: Perils and Pitfalls.” Isikoff has written extensively on the war on terrorism, the Abu Ghraib scandal, campaign-finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues. He is also the co-author of the