Shorenstein 20th Anniversary

Over two days last fall, reporters, editors, and analysts from both mainstream and new media outlets gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. At panel presentations, more than 200 journalists and scholars struggled to make sense of a range of issues ’Äî from shrinking news staffs, to the increase in entertainment reporting, to the emergence of the citizen journalist. Attendees and presenters included Walter Shorenstein, principal donor of the center who named the center in honor of his daughter, former CBS Evening News producer Joan Shorenstein Barone, former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor Bill Kovach and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, Buzzmachine.com writer Jeff Jarvis, and former Shorenstein fellow Julie Hall.