Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin and PBS’ Miles O’Brien

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October 14, 2011 – Xeni Jardin, founding partner and co-editor of Boing Boing, spoke with Miles O’Brien, science correspondent, PBS NewsHour, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/boing-boings-xeni-jardin-and-pbs-miles-obrien Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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New Yorker’s Ken Auletta with ex-US CIO Vivek Kundra

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October 14, 2011 – Ken Auletta, New Yorker columnist, spoke with Vivek Kundra, Former U.S. Chief Information Officer, at the Shorenstein Center’s 25th anniversary celebration on October 14, 2011, at Harvard Kennedy School. http://storify.com/shorensteinctr/shorenstein-25-new-yorkers-ken-auletta-with-exus-c Compiled by John Wihbey and Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center. Photos by Martha Stewart.

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Kalb traces Vietnam influence on White House policy

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October 11, 2011 — The founding director of the Shorenstein Center, Marvin Kalb, author of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, revisited the Center to talk about how a lost war still influences White House war policy. Kalb’s book, which he co-wrote with his daughter Deborah Kalb, poses the question:

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Fineman describes HuffPost-AOL as ‘news community’

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October 4, 2011 — Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post-AOL Media Group and contributing news analyst to NBC and MSNBC, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about “HuffPost, the Web and the Campaign of 2012.” “What AOL/Huffington Post wants to be,” Fineman explained, “is the best combination of news and community on the web.”

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Age of Greed blames Wall Street ‘in league’ with Washington

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September 27, 2011 — Wall Street and Washington share responsibility for the current economic crisis, according to Jeff Madrick, who discussed his new book Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, at the Shorenstein Center. Madrick, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and

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CNN’s Yellin sees role as providing context and insight

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September 13, 2011 — At the first installment of the Fall semester speaker series, the Shorenstein Center welcomed Jessica Yellin, Chief White House Correspondent for CNN, to speak about “Covering the White House in a Bare-knuckled Media Culture.” Yellin outlined several “hazards” of working in cable news. First, the “rise of everyone as a reporter”

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Reflections on Public Service

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Vivek Kundra, fall 2011 fellow, shares his reflections on public service, which included the positions of the first U.S. Chief Information Officer in President Obama’s administration, Chief Technology Officer in Mayor Fenty’s cabinet in Washington, D.C., Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology in Governor Kaine’s cabinet in Virginia, and Director of Infrastructure in Arlington County.

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Disengaged: Elite Media in a Vernacular Nation

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Bob Calo Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2011 Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: Journalists, by and large, regard the “crisis” as something that happened to them, and not anything they did. It was the Internet that jumbled the informational sensitivities of their readers, corporate ownership that raised suspicions

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Geithner: Confidence more expensive to recover than keep

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May 17, 2011 — Congress must adopt a “balanced strategy” to address the country’s long-term fiscal health and avert the looming crisis over the national debt limit, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner at an event hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Watch the video. Read the transcript (PDF).

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South Africa: Press, Politics and Development in the Post-Apartheid Era

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April 26, 2011 – “South Africa: Press, Politics and Development in the Post-Apartheid Era.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on Negotiation, Conflict and the Media with Bob Giles, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and Rob Rose, business reporter for South Africa’s Sunday Times and 2011 Nieman Fellow.

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Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network

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Alexis Gelber Shorenstein Center Goldsmith Fellow, Spring 2011 Formerly, Newsweek magazine Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama emerged as the champion of new media by using social networking tools in innovative ways to turn on and turn out young voters. Since then, some of most visible and creative

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Partners of Necessity: The Case for Collaboration in Local Investigative Reporting

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Sandy Rowe Shorenstein Center Knight Fellow, Fall 2010 & Spring 2011 Former editor, The Oregonian, Portland Read the full paper (PDF). Excerpt: Anyone who thinks there’s an easy rescue in sight for rebuilding local investigative reporting capacity is wrong. Newspapers, traditionally the source of most investigative coverage in communities, will not be able to restaff

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Schiller urges commercial media to ’embrace audience as partners’

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April 20, 2011 — Vivian Schiller, former CEO and president of National Public Radio, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about how public and commercial news organizations can learn from each other to be successful and relevant in the future. As veteran of both for-profit and non-profit media, and currently “on the sidelines,” Schiller offered advice

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Morgenson: With Dodd-Frank, next crisis will come sooner, not later

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April 12, 2011 — Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times assistant business and financial editor and columnist, has some good things to say about the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation act, but the list is short. Enacted after the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the bill’s stated intent is to reform Wall Street and protect consumers. The resulting legislation is far

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The Changing Role of the Media: A View from Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street

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April 6, 2011 – Business & Government Seminar Series with Simon Lewis, Chief Executive, Association for Financial Markets in Europe; former official spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Queen. Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and the Shorenstein Center.

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Tolbert traces digital inequality to lack of skills and money

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April 5, 2011 — Caroline Tolbert has been researching and tracking digital literacy in the United States. As professor of political science at the University of Iowa, she studies the divide between the availability of Internet access and use of the Internet. Tolbert presented her research at the Shorenstein Center, and revealed the many barriers

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Emily Bell looks outside the field to ‘remake fourth estate’

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April 4, 2011 — Emily Bell previously worked at the Guardian News and Media as director of digital content and has recently taken a position at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism as director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. She spoke to the Shorenstein Center about the importance of bringing in experts outside

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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public.

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