January 11, 2007 – “China Bets on Its Future: Four Bets and the Future of the People’s Republic of China.” A panel discussion with Alex S. Jones, Director, Shorenstein Center; Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in Public Policy; Suzanne Ogden, Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University; Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research; John Pomfret, West Coast Correspondent and […]

January 10, 2007 — The 2007 recipient of the Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia is John Pomfret. The prize honors an American journalist or author for his or her contribution to our understanding of the Far East. It is awarded each year by Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Harvard’s Shorenstein

December 5, 2006 — At a Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Alicia Shepard, author of Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate, discussed the two as “journalistic icons whose stories needed to be documented,” citing a fascination with the instant fame that the pair achieved at such an early stage in their careers as one

December 4, 2006 – “Press, Politics and Public Policy: The Domestic, International and Web View.” A symposium with Shorenstein Fellows: Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor; Garance Franke-Ruta, the American Prospect; Bill Powers, the National Journal; and Allan Siegal, formerly, the New York Times. Moderated by Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press.

November 28, 2006 – “Covering Challenging Issues: Reflections on a 20-Year Experience.” Brown-bag lunch with Tim Sebastian, award-winning former BBC foreign correspondent and presenter of HARDtalk, a daily half-hour interview program for BBC World and BBC News 24.

November 16, 2006 — New media, old media, and their synergy in fostering robust democracy were the topics taken up by syndicated columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. at the J.F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Thursday evening. Delivering the 2006 Theodore H. White Lecture, Dionne hearkened back to the days of 18th century “pamphleteering” as an earlier

November 14, 2006 — At a Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, James Traub, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine discussed the subject of his latest book, The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. According to Traub, Annan’s media-friendly charm and charisma helped turn him into

November 13, 2006 — At a Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Jeanne Cummings, political reporter for the Wall Street Journal, offered a postmortem of last week’s midterm elections, dissecting the Democrats’ takeover of both chambers and prognosticating about presidential candidates. “This was a significant election, not your classic six-year cycle,” Cummings said. She attributed the Democrats’

November 9, 2006 – Marvin Kalb receives the 2006 Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club. The award, the NPC’s top honor, goes annually to an individual who has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contribution to American journalism. Acceptance speech PDF.

November 8, 2006 — At a Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, Neil Budde, vice president and executive editor of Yahoo! News and founding editor of the Wall Street Journal Online, spoke about the seeming tension between traditional and new media. Budde asserted that a “sea change” has occurred in the industry over the last year. While

November 7, 2006 — On Election Day, the Shorenstein Center hosted a brown bag lunch with Washington, D.C.–based political reporter Tom Oliphant. Oliphant’s talk focused on the possible implications of a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate. Oliphant said that, in this election, a Democratic vote is essentially synonymous with a vote against

November 1, 2006 — At his Shorenstein Center brown-bag lunch, journalist Mickey Kaus chose to speak about the impact of the “blogosphere” on American politics. Kaus maintained that due to the rapid pace of political blogging, today, pieces of political news “rise faster and die faster” in the consciousness of voters. He referenced, as an

October 31, 2006 – “Lighthouse or Street Lamp? Illuminating Reporting in a Global World of Shrinking Bureaus.” Brown-bag lunch with Karen Elliott House, former senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company and former publisher of the Wall Street Journal.  

October 24, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Russian journalist Evgeni Kiselev discussed declining press freedom under Russia’s current president, Vladimir Putin. In 2001, Kiselev — then a reporter for NTV, Russia’s first independent television news organization — was summoned to the Kremlin, along with his NTV co-workers. There they were told of

October 18, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Peter D. Hart, one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States, offered a sneak preview of the numbers in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, which was embargoed until 6:30 p.m. Eastern time that day. Hart described the mood of the

October 16, 2006 — Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post and the author of Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, discussed the challenges and risks of reporting from a war zone, at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Chandrasekaran began reporting from Iraq in the beginning of 2002. “In