January 30, 2014 – Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting will be announced at an awards ceremony on March 5, 2014, at the Kennedy […]
January 21, 2014 – The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is pleased to announce the Joan Shorenstein Fellows for the 2014 Spring semester: Jill Dougherty, former foreign news correspondent for CNN; Robert Lenzner, contributing editor and columnist for Forbes.com; and Steve Oney, author of And the Dead Shall Rise. Diane McWhorter, author of Carry Me Home, is the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence.
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December 10, 2013 – Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) today announced an ambitious new fellowship in honor of developer and philanthropist Walter Shorenstein and a name change for the research center endowed by the late Mr. Shorenstein in 1986. A gift of $5 million from Doug and Lydia Shorenstein to Harvard University will be used to fund the new
December 2, 2013 – “Accountability and Transparency: National Security, the Media and the Public Good.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Joe Klein, Shorenstein Fellow and columnist at Time magazine; and Frank Thorp IV, a retired Navy Rear Admiral, was the U.S. Navy’s chief of information for the Department of the Navy providing strategic communication counsel
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November 19, 2013 – Reflecting on the 2013 elections and what they might mean for 2014 and 2016, Maggie Haberman, senior political reporter for Politico, shared with the Shorenstein Center what she saw as the three key outcomes that might shed light on future political developments.
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Panel discussion with The Honorable Alan K. Simpson, Leonard Pitts Jr., Jackie Calmes, Beth Myers and Clarence Page.
November 13, 2013, 9-10:30am, Nye ABC, Taubman Building 5th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School.
Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics Read More »
November 12, 2013 – The 24th annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics was deliverd by The Honorable Alan K. Simpson, U.S. Senator, Wyoming (1979-1997), and the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism was presented to Leonard Pitts, Jr., columnist, the Miami Herald.
Theodore H. White Lecture with Alan K. Simpson Read More »
November 12, 2013 – The founding director of the Shorenstein Center and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Marvin Kalb spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the war powers of U.S. presidents and how the lack of congressional support has impacted military policy.
November 5, 2013 – Ana Navarro, Institute of Politics Fellow and political contributor at CNN and CNN en Español, describes herself as a “Republican without labels,” which she explained meant that she is “inclusive, not obstructionist.” Navarro, who served as the National Hispanic Co-Chair for Gov. Jon Huntsman’s 2012 Campaign, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how punditry has changed political debate, and how politicians might be able to capture the Hispanic vote.
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October 29, 2013 – How can we increase our cognitive diversity through social networks that thrive on familiarity? To look more closely at answers and possible solutions, the Shorenstein Center invited Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT and principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, to share his insights.
October 28, 2013 – “The Potentials and Limits to Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from Bosnia and Kosovo for the Current Syria Crisis.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with with Sadik al-Azm, Professor Emeritus of modern European philosophy at the University of Damascus, Syria and Scholar at Risk, Harvard University; and Wolfgang Petritsch,
October 22, 2013 – The Shorenstein Center welcomed Betsy Fischer Martin, managing editor of NBC News Political Programming and former senior executive producer of “Meet the Press,” to share her thoughts on the changing media landscape. During her 20-year tenure at “Meet the Press,” Fischer Martin said, technology changed the show considerably. Her job when she started as
October 17, 2013 – To shed some light on the secret world of special operations forces, the Shorenstein Center invited Linda Robinson, senior international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Robinson, author of One Hundred Victories: Special Operations Forces and the Future of American Warfare, has been granted unique and special access to the covert operators, and she shared
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October 15, 2013 – As one of only three people with direct contact to Edward Snowden, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bart Gellman shared with the Shorenstein Center how the Snowden leaks about the NSA have affected the U.S. government, marketplace and democracy. Snowden’s greatest fear, Gellman said, was that either “he would be preempted” in his attempt to
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October 11, 2013 – Conversation with Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent. Co-sponsored with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
Who Stole the American Dream? Read More »
October 10, 2013 – The sixth annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press was delivered by Floyd Abrams, a member of the Executive Committee and Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP’s litigation practice group. Described by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as “the most significant First Amendment lawyer of our age,” Mr. Abrams has been named
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October 8, 2013 – Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor, writer and blogger for The Atlantic, shared with the Shorenstein Center his thoughts on the dual society in America – its historical beginning, its impact on policy, and what implications it might have on the country’s future. Coates, who is also the Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar at MIT,
October 2, 2013 – A new book by Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard Kennedy School, is a frank look at the failings of today’s journalism and what needs to be done to fix the problem.
Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism Read More »
October 1, 2013 – Financial reporting is crucial to a fair and functioning democracy, said Laurie Hays, Senior Executive Editor for Beat Reporting at Bloomberg News. The challenge that financial reporters face, she said, is presenting complex economic issues in a way that large audiences can understand. Yet it is important because “the bottom line is…the bottom
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September 30, 2013 – “Negotiating Women’s Roles in Complex International Environments.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Fouzia Saeed, Human rights activist and educator in Pakistan and Beena Sarwar, Pakistani journalist and filmmaker. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public
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