T.H. White Lecture

Theodore H. White Seminar

November 16, 2012 – Theodore H. White Seminar with T.H. White Lecturer David Brooks; Cynthia Tucker, winner of the 2012 David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism; Amy Walter, ABC News Political Director; Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African American Studies; and John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for Slate magazine and political director of CBS News.

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T.H. White Seminar panelists explore political, media changes

November 15, 2010 — The 2010 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Rachel Maddow‘s T.H. White Lecture. The seminar panelists were Mindy Finn, GOP online political consultant; Charles Gibson, former ABC News anchor and Reidy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center; William Greider, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and recipient

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Rachel Maddow gives T.H. White Lecture on Press and Politics

November 14, 2010 — Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, gave the 2010 T.H. White Lecture on Press and Politics to a packed Forum on a crisp November evening. In her lecture, Maddow described the current political situation in the United States as a consequence of a system that has “decoupled winning

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T.H. White Seminar discusses press’s role, responsibility

November 13, 2009 — The 2009 Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics took place the morning after Taylor Branch‘s T.H. White lecture, and brought together a distinguished group of panelists. Included were Dan Balz, political correspondent, The Washington Post; Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor

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Taylor Branch: Journalism allowed trivialization of public debate

November 12, 2009 — In introducing Taylor Branch, the 2009 T.H. White Lecturer, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones began by describing Branch’s youth in the segregated south of the 1950s. It was a place of “whites only” entrances, of Lester Maddox and Martin Luther King Jr. “For southerners of Taylor Branch’s generation … the Civil Rights

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John Lewis delivers 2008 Theodore H. White lecture

November 20, 2008 — The 2008 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics took place on a cold evening, but the atmosphere inside the forum of the John F. Kennedy School of Government was radiant. After a welcome by Dean David Ellwood, Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones introduced the winner of the 2008

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“The Invisible Primary”: Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics

October 26, 2007 – “The Invisible Primary”: Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics. A panel discussion with Charles E. Cook, Jr., publisher, The Cook Political Report; Tom Fiedler, Shorenstein Fellow, former editor-in-chief, the Miami Herald; Mark Halperin, editor at large and senior political analyst, Time magazine; political analyst, ABC News; Steve Jarding, lecturer in public policy, Kennedy

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2006 Theodore H. White Seminar

November 17, 2006 – Theodore H. White Seminar. A panel discussion with E.J. Dionne, Jr., the Washington Post; Molly Ivins, independent journalist; Garance Franke-Ruta, senior editor at the American Prospect and current Shorenstein Fellow; Christina Martin, former press secretary to Newt Gingrich and current IOP Fellow; Jack Shafer, press critic and editor-at-large for Slate magazine; and

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Theodore H. White Seminar: “New Media, Old Media and the Future of Liberalism.”

October 28, 2005 – Theodore H. White Seminar: “New Media, Old Media and the Future of Liberalism.” Panel discussion with Peter Beinart, the New Republic; John Leo, U.S. News and World Report; Thomas Patterson, Harvard University; Dorothy Rabinowitz, the Wall Street Journal; Jeanne Shaheen, director of the Institute of Politics and former governor of New Hampshire;

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William Kristol delivers 2004 Theodore H. White lecture

December 1, 2004 — William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, delivered the 15th-annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Mr. Kristol addressed “The Meaning of the 2004 Election,” and commented on the impact of the presidential race and the challenges

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David McCullough delivers 2002 Theodore H. White lecture

October 29, 2002 — The idea that history has something valuable and useful to teach us has been seriously questioned by academic historians in recent years, and a new and often bewildering set of theories justifying the historical enterprise has been proposed in its stead. David McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for history, whose

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Tom Brokaw delivers 2000 Theodore H. White lecture

February 26, 2001 — Tom Brokaw, anchor of the NBC Nightly News since 1983, delivered the 11th Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics tonight. The journalist’s subject was “So Much Information, So Little Time.” Speaking to a Forum crowd of 800 people, Brokaw discussed the pressures on broadcast journalists today, commenting pointedly that

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