2005 Goldsmith Seminar: “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting.”

March 23, 2005: Goldsmith Seminar: “The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting.” Participants include the Goldsmith Investigative Prize finalists from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Atlantic Monthly, Frontline, and the BBC, the New York Times, the Oregonian, the Seattle Times and WFAA-TV (Dallas, Texas). Learn more; Transcript

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Henriques wins 2005 Goldsmith investigative reporting prize

March 22, 2005 — The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting was awarded to Diana Henriques, business reporter for the New York Times. In her investigative report titled “Captive Clientele,” Henriques exposed a trail of deceit through which thousands of American soldiers were sold misleading insurance policies, often by former military officials. The report’s comprehensive

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What Went Wrong and Why: Explaining the Performance of U.S. Government Policy After the Invasion of Iraq

March 22, 2005: “What Went Wrong and Why: Explaining the Performance of U.S. Government Policy After the Invasion of Iraq.” Discussion with James Fallows and William Langewiesche, national correspondents for the Atlantic Monthly. They will discuss political failures as seen from Baghdad and Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Nieman

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The Shorenstein Center announces its spring 2005 fellows

February 1, 2005: The Shorenstein Center announces its spring 2005 fellows. Among the six fellows are the opinion editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, a digital media pioneer, a professor of communications at University of Mainz, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, a professor of political at McGill University, and a journalist who

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Conference looks at blogging, journalism and credibility

January 21 , 2005 — On January 21, bloggers, traditional journalists, and media enthusiasts alike, descended upon the campus of the Kennedy School to take part in a two-day conference titled “Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground.” Organized by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the Berkman Center for

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Death in Wartime: Photographs and the “Other War” in Afghanistan

A paper by Barbie Zelizer, spring 2004 fellow, addresses the formulaic dependence of the news media on images of people facing impending death. Considering one example of this depiction – U.S. journalism’s photographic coverage of the killing of the Taliban by the Northern Alliance during the war on Afghanistan – the paper traces its strategic

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