Shorenstein Center Welcomes Leaders in Journalism and Scholarship for Fall 2012

August 28, 2012 – The Shorenstein Center is pleased to announce its 2012 Fall Fellows and Visiting Faculty. “This fall we have an outstanding group of fellows and visiting faculty representing both broad experience and cutting-edge work and scholarship,” said Alex Jones, the Center’s director. Shorenstein Fellows spend the semester researching and writing a paper, […]

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Dispatches From an Unfinished Uprising: The Role of Technology in the 2009 Iranian Protest Movement

A new paper by Spring 2012 Fellow Nazila Fathi describes her experience as a journalist on the ground during the Iranian protests in June 2009.

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‘Balancing act’ ahead for Romney and Obama, says ABC’s Jake Tapper

April 17, 2012 – For a behind-the-scenes look at the 2012 presidential race, the Shorenstein Center invited Jake Tapper, Senior White House Correspondent for ABC News and a substitute host for ABC’s This Week, to speak about what the Obama and Romney campaigns need to do to win the election. Both campaigns, he said, are focused

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Can the Revolution in Tunisia put North Africa back on the world stage?

April 12, 2012 – Discussion with Francis Ghiles, political scientist, former reporter with The Financial Times, reporting on international capital markets and North Africa. Moderated by Ishac Diwan, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative. Nye A, Taubman Building, Fifth Floor

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NPR’s Hinojosa sees conflict of objectivity and agenda in journalism

April 10, 2012 – Maria Hinojosa, anchor and managing editor of NPR’s Latino USA, and anchor of Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One (WGBX-TV), spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the challenges journalists face when reporting objective facts through the mainstream media.

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Post‘s Ignatius: Obama is ‘idealist learning to be realist’

April 3, 2012 – President Obama is less comfortable with exercising power publicly than privately, said David Ignatius, associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post, at a Shorenstein Center event. “As covert Commander-in-Chief, [Obama] has been quite effective,” he continued. While he is “reticent, reluctant to use the public political tools of power, in private…he

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A Tribute to Anthony Shadid

March 28, 2012 – Featuring panelists Susan Chira, assistant managing editor for news of The New York Times; Charlie Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost; Phil Bennett, managing editor of Frontline. Moderated by Alex Jones, Director of the Shorenstein Center. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy,

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Russia’s Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century

March 26, 2012 – Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Kevin Ryan, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center; and Simon Saradzhyan, Fellow, Belfer Center. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Nieman Foundation and the Shorenstein Center.

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Bloomberg editor: Super PACs add negativity to primary race

March 20, 2012 – Super PACs (political action committees) and large donors have impacted the 2012 presidential race in surprising ways, said Jeanne Cummings, Government Team Deputy Editor for Bloomberg News, at a Shorenstein Center event. An unexpected result of changes in campaign financing, Cummings said, is that candidates in the GOP primary race each

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