April 15, 2009 – Brown-bag lunch with Richard Parker, Senior Shorenstein Fellow and Lecturer in Public Policy.

April 14, 2009 — At his Shorenstein Center talk, Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News, didn’t hide how important he felt health care reform was for America. “Up until about five years ago I spent almost all my time covering developments in clinical medicine — new breakthroughs,” Johnson said, addressing the standing-room-only crowd. “But

April 7, 2009 — Rick Kaplan kicked off his brown-bag talk, titled “The First 100 Days and the Press,” by seemingly minimizing the importance of the very thing he’d come to talk about. “There’s nothing magical about the first 100 days,” he said. “It’s a benchmark that journalists and writers have set up, because we

April 1, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer shared her experiences with “The Politics of Covering Regular People.” Reporting on ways that workers are exploited or mistreated, she has found that “most people want to make a difference, but they don’t know how.”

March 17, 2009 — The brown-bag talk by Robin Sproul, Washington bureau chief for ABC News, was titled “The New Administration and Change,” but it could have as easily been “The Next 50 days.” “The biggest change [in Washington] is velocity, the speed of change that’s happening,” said Sproul, a Shorenstein Center fellow in fall

March 13, 2009 – Discussion on the U.S. economic crisis with Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy.

March 10, 2009 — As Washington correspondent for the New York Times and self-decribed “profilist” of the Obama administration, Jodi Kantor chose “Covering Obama World” as the topic of her March 10 Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk. In her remarks, she described some of the people in the new administration. To illustrate the range of personalities,

March 3, 2009 — Judging from his Shorenstein Center brown-bag talk, “Fallen Sky: Finding a Way Forward After the Media Shakeout,” New York Times media columnist David Carr is equal parts pessimist and optimist. What did Carr think of the recently announced cancellation of the 2009 newspaper editors’ convention? “An extinction event,” he said in

February 24, 2009 — Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of Slate, looked at web media and the future of journalism at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Director Alex S. Jones launched the discussion with the observation that in today’s online environment, there is “gigantic success without profitability,” citing examples such as YouTube and Facebook. The challenge facing the media

February 19, 2009 — The Harvard Club of New York was the site of a briefing for journalists on the economy and New York, sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. The guests of honor at the event were the Honorable Jon S. Corzine, governor of New Jersey, and

February 17, 2009 — The speaker at today’s brown-bag lunch, Norman Orstein, was introduced by Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones as “one of the most familiar commentators and analysts in American politics.” Jones noted that Ornstein was the most frequent guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, as well as the first person to make two

February 12, 2009 — The 2009 recipient of the Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia is Seth Mydans, who covers Southeast Asia for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune from his base in Bangkok, Thailand. Since taking up the post in 1996 he has covered the fall of Suharto and rise of democracy

February 11, 2009 – A conversation about the current economic situation with Richard Parker, senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center. Moderated by Thomas Patterson.

February 10, 2009 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Ken Auletta, “Annals of Communications” columnist for the New Yorker, addressed the impact of the new media world on the old-media landscape. Newspapers have been struggling to find the way forward, Auletta said. While they could significantly reduce their expenses by going online only —

February 3, 2009 — At the first Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch of the semester, Joe Nocera, business columnist for the New York Times, gave his thoughts on where the economy is headed. Beyond the layoffs, business failures, and stock-market upheaval, for Nocera the most discouraging side of the economic crisis is that no one has