October 10, 2006 – “Big Media Meets Blogging.” Brown-bag lunch with James Taranto, editor of OpinonJournal.com and author of the “Best of the Web Today” column, Wall Street Journal.

October 3, 2006 — James Carroll, op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe and author of House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power discussed the effects of the military in America at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Carroll stated that the strength of America’s military bureaucracy requires the cooperation of “every

September 26, 2006 — Tom Edsall, reporter for the National Journal and the New Republic, and author of Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power, presented an overview of the Republican Party’s dominance in American government at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Edsall argued that in spite of the

September 19, 2006 – “Covering Conflict: Reporting from the Middle East.” Journalists from the region share their stories. Moderated by Alex S. Jones and John Shattuck.

May 25, 2006 – Fred Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, gave a lecture on freedom of expression in the context of the recent Danish cartoon controversy, as part of the Transatlantic Lecture Series of the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Transcript

May 4, 2006 – Brown-bag lunch with Louis Uchitelle, New York Times economics reporter and author of The Disposable American.

May 2, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Susan Chira, foreign editor at the New York Times, explained that journalists in Iraq are restricted by security concerns in their efforts to do in-depth reporting. Reporters face “an ever-tightening circle of where they can go and what they can see for themselves,” Chira said.

April 27, 2006 — Rick Kaplan, president and general manager of MSNBC, NBC News’ 24-hour cable channel, discussed the network’s strategy for increasing ratings at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. A journalist for over 30 years, Kaplan says content is the key: “If there’s news, people watch…. Just marking time with tabloid stories doesn’t get

April 18, 2006 – “‘O’ for Orwellian: Doublespeak and Its Effect on Democracy.” Brown-bag lunch with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation.

April 11, 2006 — Mark Jurkowitz, media critic for the Boston Phoenix, discussed how bloggers impacted the celebrity status of Jill Carroll at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch. Jurkowitz suggested that the initial response of many bloggers to the Christian Science Monitor reporter’s condemnation of the U.S. military presence in Iraq — remarks Carroll made

April 4, 2006 — Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spoke at the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch on what he called his “first love”—covering foreign policy. Focusing on the allocation of scarce resources as a way of explaining the quantity and quality of foreign affairs coverage done by major news outlets

March 24, 2006 — What roles do the press, political parties and interest groups play in the Supreme Court nomination process? To answer the question, the Shorenstein Center brought together some of the country’s most prominent political activists, journalists, academics and government officials to discuss the ways in which a nominee’s candidacy for the nation’s

March 21, 2006 — At the Shorenstein Center’s brown-bag lunch, Walter Pincus, veteran intelligence reporter at the Washington Post, gave a broad outline of his career so far and offered insights into how the news reporting industry has changed since his early days as a reporter. In particular, Pincus bemoaned what he felt amounted to

March 14, 2006 – “The U.S.-Islamic Media Challenge: Twenty Versions of One Event — Similarities and Differences.” Brown-bag lunch with Marvin Kalb, senior fellow and founding director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and Carol Saivetz, lecturer in Harvard’s Department of Government.

March 7, 2006 – “Miller’s Malfeasance and Woodward’s Folly: The Crisis in Access Journalism.” Brown-bag lunch with Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University.