2006 Archive

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December

• 12/5: "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate." Brown-bag lunch with Alicia Shepard, contributing writer for Washingtonian and People magazines and author of Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Learn More
• 12/4: "Press, Politics and Public Policy: The Domestic, International and Web View." A symposium with Shorenstein Fellows: Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor; Garance Franke-Ruta, the American Prospect; Bill Powers, the National Journal; and Allan Siegal, formerly, the New York Times. Moderated by Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press.

November

• 11/28: "Covering Challenging Issues: Reflections on a 20-Year Experience." Brown-bag lunch with Tim Sebastian, award-winning former BBC foreign correspondent and presenter of HARDtalk, a daily half-hour interview program for BBC World and BBC News 24.
• 11/17: 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 Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. Moderated by Alex S. Jones.
• 11/16: E.J. Dionne, Jr. delivers the 2006 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics: "The Making of Democracy 2006: How the New Media and the Old Media Could Live Together Happily and Enhance Public Life." Learn More; Video Recording
• 11/14: "Kofi Annan and the Press." Brown-bag lunch with James Traub, contributing writer for New York Times Magazine and author of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the U.N. in the Era of American World Power. Learn More
• 11/13: Brown-bag lunch with Jeanne Cummings, political reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Learn More
• 11/9: Marvin Kalb receives the 2006 Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club. The award, the NPC's top honor, goes annually to an individual who has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contribution to American journalism. Acceptance Speech PDF; C-SPAN Broadcast
• 11/8: Brown-bag lunch with Neil Budde, vice president and executive editor of Yahoo! News and founding editor of the Wall Street Journal Online. Learn More
• 11/7: Election Day brown-bag lunch with Washington, D.C.-based political reporter Tom Oliphant. Learn More
• 11/1: Brown-bag lunch with journalist Mickey Kaus.
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October

• 10/31: "Lighthouse or Street Lamp? Illuminating Reporting in a Global World of Shrinking Bureaus." Brown-bag lunch with Karen Elliott House, former senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company and former publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
• 10/24: "Putin's Russia: A Look at the Media." Brown-bag lunch with Evgeni Kiselev, Russian journalist and independent political analyst covering domestic and international politics for the Russian media for more than 20 years. Learn More
• 10/18: Brown-bag lunch with pollster Peter D. Hart. Learn More
• 10/16: "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone." Brown-bag lunch with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief and assistant managing editor of the Washington Post. Learn More
• 10/14: 20th Anniversary Celebration. Panel: "Media and Democracy." Moderator: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Main presenter: Nik Gowing, BBC World, former Shorenstein Fellow. Panelists: Hendrik Hertzberg, the New Yorker, former Shorenstein Fellow; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Bill Kovach, formerly of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Committee of Concerned Journalists; Mark McKinnon, chief media advisor to President George W. Bush and adjunct lecturer in public policy. Audio Recording
• 10/13: 20th Anniversary Celebration. Panel: "Newspapers and Industry Transformation." Introduction by Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment. With Scott Anthony, Innosight, and co-author of Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Audio Recording
  
• 10/13: 20th Anniversary Celebration. Panel: "Traditional News Media: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism." Moderator: Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: John Carroll, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, Knight Visiting Lecturer; Rick Kaplan, formerly of MSNBC and CNN-US; Bill Marimow, National Public Radio; Robin Sproul, ABC News; Evan Thomas, Newsweek, Visiting Murrow Professor. Audio Recording
  
• 10/13: 20th Anniversary Celebration. Panel: "New Media and News: Peering Over the Horizon." Moderator: Alex S. Jones, director, Shorenstein Center. Panelists: Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post; Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine.com, City University of New York; Michael Kinsley, Slate and the Guardian; Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices Online, former Shorenstein Fellow; Martin Nisenholtz, the New York Times Company; Paul Sagan, Akamai, Shorenstein Center advisory board. Audio Recording
• 10/10: "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.
• 10/3: "The House of War: The Pentagon and the Rise of American Power." Brown-bag lunch with James Carroll, author and columnist for the Boston Globe. Learn More

September

• 9/26: Brown-bag lunch with Tom Edsall, national political reporter for the National Journal and the New Republic. Learn More
• 9/26: The Center for Public Integrity, with the support of the Shorenstein Center, presented findings from a six-month investigation into campaign consulting. Learn More
• 9/19: "Covering Conflict: Reporting from the Middle East." Journalists from the region share their stories. Moderated by Alex S. Jones and John Shattuck.

July

• 7/9: In a Washington Post article, the Carnegie-Knight Task Force, including Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones, took on the issue of government secrecy and the press.

May

• 5/25: 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. Download PDF.
• 5/4: Brown-bag lunch with Louis Uchitelle, New York Times economics reporter and author of The Disposable American.
• 5/2: Brown-bag lunch with Susan Chira, foreign editor, the New York Times. Learn More

April

• 4/27: Brown-bag lunch with MSNBC president and general manager Rick Kaplan. Learn More
• 4/18: "'O' for Orwellian: Doublespeak and Its Effect on Democracy." Brown-bag lunch with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation.
• 4/11: "Jill Carroll and the Crush of Celebrity Status." Brown-bag lunch with Mark Jurkowitz, media critic for the Boston Phoenix. Learn More
• 4/4: "Covering Foreign Policy." Brown-bag lunch with Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Learn More

March

• 3/24: Shorenstein Center hosts conference on the Supreme Court nomination process. Participants included Brad Berenson, Ron Brownstein, Stephanie Cutter, Doug Kendall, Manuel Miranda, Ralph Neas, Grover Norquist, and Justice Stephen Breyer. Judy Woodruff and Linda Greenhouse moderated. Learn More
• 3/21: "Covering National Security." Brown-bag lunch with Walter Pincus, veteran intelligence reporter at the Washington Post. Learn More
• 3/15: Goldsmith Awards Panel Discussion: "The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting." Participating will be the finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Alex S. Jones, moderator. Learn More
• 3/14: 2006 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony. Presentation of the Goldsmith Book Prizes, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. A formal address will be given by Jim Lehrer, 2006 winner of the Goldsmith career award. Learn More
• 3/14: "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.
• 3/7: "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.
• 3/1: "Covering the Bush White House." Brown-bag lunch with David Sanger, New York Times White House correspondent. Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics.

February

• 2/27: "Global Voices: Learning to Listen to the Rest of the World." Brown-bag lunch with Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices, a nonprofit global citizens' media project sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School.
• 2/21: "Listening for the Story: A Columnist's View." Brown-bag lunch with Connie Schultz, columnist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
• 2/16: The 2006 Shorenstein Prize for Reporting on Asia is awarded to journalist Melinda Liu of Newsweek. Learn More
• 2/14: "For Whom Does a Journalist Work?" Brown-bag lunch with Ken Auletta, "Annals of Communication" columnist for the New Yorker. Learn More
• 2/13: "We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open-Source Journalism, and the Coming Era of the Citizen Activist." A talk with Dan Gillmor, founder and director of the Center for Citizen Media. Part I of Berkman Center's (Harvard Law School) Citizen Media Series, a series of five talks centering on recent developments in grassroots media.
• 2/8: "Purple Journalism—Red State/Blue State Era." Brown-bag lunch with Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Learn More
• 2/7: "Press Freedom, Journalists' Safety, and the Conflict in Iraq." Brown-bag lunch with Ann Cooper, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the global defense of press freedom.

 
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