This event is part of the News Innovation Series, which is supported by a gift from Elaine Schuster.

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 […]

March 5, 2013 – There isn’t a single “path to profit” for newspapers and magazines, said Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel at Tuesday’s Shorenstein Center event. However, Tyrangiel noted that the future of journalism will rely on many different styles and models integrated with each other. Historically, Tyrangiel said, Time magazine and other publishers operated under the […]

The federal Government Accountability Office several months ago convened an expert policy panel on solutions for the local news crisis in the US. This was a widely multidisciplinary group of professors, journalists, technologists, business leaders, academics and leaders in civil society. I was gratified to join this effort, building our Local News efforts at the […]

February 26, 2013 – Political analyst Michael Tomasky, who writes for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about President Obama’s legacy, and how it compares to Reagan’s. There is not a clear comparison yet, Tomasky said, but he acknowledged that as Reagan shifted the “political gravity” to the right, Obama has shifted […]

The Shorenstein Center hosts a weekly speaker series throughout the academic year, as well as other special events. With the Fall 2014 semester coming to a close, we look back at the perspectives shared by our visiting speakers, who discussed some of the important issues of 2014. A full list of past Shorenstein Center events […]

Finalists include: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Sarasota Herald-Tribune and The Wall Street Journal Cambridge, MA — Six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting have been announced by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. The winner of the Goldsmith Prize for […]

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 […]

A paper by Fall Fellow Joshua Partlow, foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, looks at press coverage of President Karzai and his criticism of it.

March 12, 2013 – At a Shorenstein Center event on Tuesday, Greg Ip, U.S. economics editor for The Economist and author of The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World, made the “liberal case for deficit reduction.” He explained that “deficit hawks” are “made, not born” as a result of […]