October 26, 2010 — Board president and former executive director of MoveOn.org, Eli Pariser presented his research on “Algorithms, the News and Democracy” at a Shorenstein Center event. Introducing Pariser, Clay Shirky, Visiting Murrow Lecturer, explained that while there are “a lot of people who understand the technology really well but don’t understand the society […]

October 19, 2010 – Kelman Seminar with Robert Rotberg, World Peace Foundation, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; and Gwen Thompkins, NPR. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation; the Nieman Foundation for Journalism; the Shorenstein Center; the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and Boston area members of the Alliance

October 19, 2010 – Tracy Kidder, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center; author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Hometown, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment and Strength in What Remains.

October 13, 2010 – A conversation with Tracy Kidder, A.M. Rosenthal Writer in Residence at the Shorenstein Center; author of the following books of narrative nonfiction: The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Hometown, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment and Strength in What Remains. Moderated by Darcy Frey. Co-sponsored with Harvard Writers at Work.

October 7, 2010 – Environmental Filmmaking Workshop with Chris Palmer, MPA ’79, Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking.

September 28, 2010 — In his Shorenstein Center discussion, “Reinventing the News Story for the Internet Age,” Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact and Washington bureau chief of The St. Petersburg Times, contradicted the idea that this is “a terrible time for journalism.” Adair is “optimistic about countless opportunities” for journalism, and believes we are on

September 27, 2010 – Discussion with Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize–winner; columnist for The New York Times; author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Co-sponsored with the Future of Diplomacy Project, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Women and Public Policy Program and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,

September 23, 2010 – Panel discussion with Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies; Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy; Clay Shirky, Visiting Murrow Lecturer; and Zephyr Teachout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Moderated by Tom Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Part of the Belfer Center’s Technology and Governance 2.0 conference.

September 21, 2010 – Kelman Seminar with Loch Adamson, London Bureau Chief of Institutional Investor and Nieman Fellow, and Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

August 30, 2010 — The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be enriched by new Fellows, a Writer-in-Residence and visiting faculty this Fall. One of the most celebrated non-fiction writers of our time, Tracy Kidder, will be the first A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence. Kidder

June 24, 2010 — Walter H. Shorenstein died on Thursday, June 24, at the age of 95. Shorenstein was the principal donor to the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, which was named after his daughter and founded in 1985. Mr. Shorenstein played an active role in the development of the