January 29, 2009 — The Shorenstein Center announced that six entries were chosen as finalists for the 2009 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on March 17 at the Harvard Kennedy School. The prize honors journalism that promotes more effective and ethical conduct […]

January 26, 2009 – Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for spring 2009. The fellows are veteran journalists James O’Shea and Maralee Schwartz, NYU’s Mitchell Stephens and Michael Traugott of the University of Michigan. Nicco Mele, with the IOP last semester, is Visiting Murrow Lecturer. Learn more; press release

December 10, 2008 — Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was no doubt transformational, but will his presidency be just as transforming? Adam Nagourney, national political reporter at the New York Times, addressed this question at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, which was co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Nagourney began his talk by outlining just what

December 2, 2008 — In his Shorenstein Center brown-bag discussion, “The First 100 Days,” Jonathan Alter, columnist for Newsweek magazine, said that Barack Obama is optimally positioned to succeed. The transition comes at an opportune time, Alter said, because the president-elect can use the recent economic bailout as leverage when working with Congress. “If it’s

November 21, 2008 – Theodore H. White Seminar with Congressman John Lewis; Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Alex Castellanos, political media consultant and Fellow at the Institute of Politics; Maralee Schwartz, Visiting Murrow Lecturer in the Practice of Press and Public Policy, Shorenstein Center, and former political editor at the Washington Post; and Cynthia Tucker,

November 19, 2008 — James A. Johnson got his first taste of presidential transitions in 1976, after Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford in hard-fought contest. “The day after the election, we loaded up on the campaign plane and the entire travelling press of the entire staff of the Mondale for Vice President campaign was introduced

November 13, 2008 — Provocative language from the political extremes has a long history in America, but changes in the media landscape over the last 20 years have given such voices great power and reach. Rory O’Connor, Fall 2008 Sagan Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, gave a tour of the talk-radio landscape, and it was

November 12, 2008 — The 2008 election was one of the most analyzed, debated, and watched in American history. Whether working for the mainstream press or in the new-media jungle of websites and blogs, reporters and commentators were everywhere, and none more so than those of CNN. “There was not one piece of tape anywhere,

November 4, 2008 — Maralee Schwartz, Visiting Edward R. Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of the Press and Public Policy, began her talk at the Shorenstein Center at noon on Tuesday, November 4. The election was just underway, and Barack Obama had not yet become our 44th president. But Schwartz, described by Shorenstein Center director

October 24, 2008 – Shorenstein Center releases Journalism School Curriculum Enrichment, part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.

October 21, 2008 — Editor of washingtonpost.com Elizabeth Spayd has a print background, but an online future – a reflection of journalism today. Spayd spoke Tuesday about the future of newsrooms in a world increasingly focused towards online news content at a brown bag lunch sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics

October 14, 2008 — The title of Lynn Sweet’s talk at the Shorenstein Center was “The 2008 Road to the White House,” and what a road it’s been. “You have two unlikely candidates who have taken this route to the White House,” said Sweet, a columnist and Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times. “Who

October 6 , 2008 — The head of news and politics at YouTube spoke Monday at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government about the impact of online video in the current election. Steve Grove MPP 2006 cites the birth of YouTube politics as the video of former Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen using

October 1, 2008 — Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, had no shortage of kind words as he introduced the inaugural Richard S. Salant Lecturer, Anthony Lewis. Lewis, a two-time Pulitzer winner, was “a man who has come to embody the battle to keep the First Amendment vibrant and vigorous,” and whose work

October 1, 2008 — When it comes to interpreting public-opinion polls, Peter Hart knows a thing or two. After all, he’s been doing them for more than 40 years. “You have to have a strong stomach and very steady hands,” he says. Then there’s the recent poll he did that goes into uncharted territory, literally.

September 30, 2008 — “You should all be very afraid. The Internet is much less secure than you can imagine.” Strong words, and even more so because they came from Paul Sagan, the president and CEO of Akamai. Sagan came to the Shorenstein Center on September 30 to talk about “‘Clever and Cool’ Innovations on the