April 23, 2007 — Sylvia Poggioli, Senior Foreign Correspondent for NPR’s foreign desk and former Shorenstein Fellow, spoke at the center’s brown-bag lunch about European media reactions to foreign news and U.S. policies. She also discussed some of the differing philosophical attitudes on gun control, immigration, terrorism, the death penalty (which is banned in the […]

April 21, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference — Soldier Media.” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

April 18, 2007 — Mike McCurry, former press secretary for President Clinton, offered his perspective as a former White House spokesman at a brown-bag lunch hosted by the Shorenstein Center. McCurry qualified his remarks at the outset by stating that “the job has no bearing now” to the position he held more than 10 years

April 17, 2007 — At a brown-bag lunch sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Women and Public Policy Program, E.J. Graff, a senior researcher at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, focused on debunking the “opt-out myth,” which refers to a woman’s decision to give up her career in favor of full-time

April 16, 2007 – “Following President Bush.” Brown-bag lunch with Brooks Kraft, a photojournalist based in Washington, D.C., assigned to photograph President Bush and the White House staff for Time magazine.

April 14, 2007 – “Human Rights and Media Conference: Youth Activism” Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

April 11, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Carol Darr, director of the Institute of Politics, Democracy and the Internet at the George Washington University, offered her perspective on how new technologies are “democratizing democracy.” Darr asserted that the Internet has empowered a new group of political activists. “The Internet has lowered the

April 9, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Mark Halperin, political analyst for ABC News and joint visiting fellow with the Shorenstein Center and Institute of Politics, spoke on the mainstream media’s coverage of the upcoming election cycle. Halperin said he holds two fundamental beliefs about political press coverage: first, “the press plays

April 4, 2007 — Through an interactive multimedia presentation at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, George Caudill, former director of advance for President Clinton, and Greg Jenkins, former director of advance for President George W. Bush, recalled their experiences of stage managing events for the world’s most powerful people. Calling himself “the man behind the

April 3, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown bag-lunch, Matt Baum, visiting associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, addressed the central question of what drives public opinion in times of foreign crises and wars. Baum asserted that public opinion tends to reflect elite rhetoric — whether of politicians themselves or the

March 19, 2007 — Michael Gerson, former policy adviser and speechwriter for President George W. Bush, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch about the moral trajectory of the Republican Party during Bush’s term of office. Gerson, who will become an op/ed writer for the Washington Post in May 2007, recounted that his first self-described

March 14, 2007 – Goldsmith Seminar, “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting,” with the finalists for the Goldsmith Prize on Investigative Reporting and representatives from the Center for Public Integrity: Walter V. Robinson, Michael Rezendes, Beth Healy, the Boston Globe; Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, the Los Angeles Times; Debbie Cenziper, the Miami Herald; Ken

March 13, 2007 — Marvin Kalb, founding director of the Center and a former reporter for CBS and NBC News, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch on his recent discussion paper The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict. Kalb illuminated the stark contrasts of how the respective governments

March 6, 2007 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Chris Isham, Chief of Investigative Projects for ABC News, described his unit as a “full service operation” that produces investigative-based programming “from soup to nuts” for the network’s entire news division. Isham expressed strong opinions about the issue of journalist-source confidentiality. He said that developing

February 27, 2007 — Adam Nagourney, national political reporter for the New York Times, addressed a full house on the topic of the media and the 2008 presidential campaign at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. The talk was cosponsored with the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. Nagourney debunked several misconceptions about the upcoming primary and

February 21, 2007 — Eric Klinenberg, at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, discussed his book Fighting For Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media. A sociologist at New York University, Klinenberg described the book as a “sociological ethnographic study” that addresses a central question on the minds of many media scholars, news consumers, and particularly