2008 Archive

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December

• 12/10: "A Transformational Candidate. A Transformational Presidency?" Brown-bag lunch with Adam Nagourney, national political correspondent for the New York Times. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Institute of Politics. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 12/2: "The First 100 Days." Brown-bag lunch with Jonathan Alter, columnist for Newsweek magazine. Learn More; Audio Recording

November

• 11/21: Theodore H. White Seminar with Congressman John Lewis; Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Alex Castellanos, political media consultant and Fellow at the Institute of Politics; Maralee Schwartz, Visiting Murrow Lecturer in the Practice of Press and Public Policy, Shorenstein Center, and former political editor at the Washington Post; and Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor and syndicated columnist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. Learn More
• 11/20: Theodore H. White Lecture given by Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga) and the presentation of the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Bob Herbert of the New York Times. Learn More; Video Recording
• 11/19: "Financial Reregulation: The Economics and the Politics," a conversation with Joseph Stiglitz, economist and Nobel Prize winner; Robert Dugger, managing director, Tudor Investments; and Jack Blum, former senior investigator, Senate Finance Committee. Moderated by Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center. Learn More; Video Recording.
• 11/19: "A Look at the Presidential Transition Process." Brown-bag lunch with James A. Johnson, vice chairman of the private banking firm Perseus LLC and former head of the John Kerry V.P. selection and transition planning in 2004. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 1/13: "Shock Jocks — Hate Speech and Talk Radio."
  Brown-bag lunch with Rory O'Connor, Shorenstein Fellow, blogger, journalist, filmmaker and author of the book, Shock Jocks. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 11/12: "Election 2008 Recap." Brown-bag lunch with Gloria Borger, contributing editor and columnist, U.S. News & World Report. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 11/4: Voters rate their Election Day experience on MyFairElection.com, a site was conceived by Archon Fung of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Learn More.
• 11/4: "The End of the Trail: What We Know." Election Day brown-bag lunch with Maralee Schwartz, Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of Press and Public Policy and former political editor at the Washington Post. Learn More; Audio Recording

October

• 10/24: Shorenstein Center releases Journalism School Curriculum Enrichment, part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.
• 10/21: "Newsroom of the Future: What's Working? What Isn't? Where Are We Headed?" Brown-bag lunch with Elizabeth Spayd, editor of Washingtonpost.com. Learn More
• 10/14: "The 2008 Road to the White House." Brown-bag lunch with Lynn Sweet, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times and a former fellow at the Institute of Politics. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 10/6: "The YouTube Election: The Impact of Online Video on Political Media." Brown-bag lunch with Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Institute of Politics. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 10/1: First annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press, with Lecturer Anthony Lewis. Learn More; Transcript PDF
• 10/1: "Where We Are." Brown-bag lunch with Peter Hart, public-opinion analyst and chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates. Learn More; Audio Recording

September

• 9/30: "Akamai: 'Clever and Cool' Innovations on the Internet." Brown-bag lunch with Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai: Learn More; Audio Recording
• 9/23: "The Unprecedented Political Developments of Campaign '08" Brown-bag lunch with Alex Castellanos, political media consultant at National Media and a fellow at the Institute of Politics. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 9/19: "Governance vs. Laissez-Faire in Rebuilding New Orleans." Brown-bag lunch with Jed Horne, metro editor of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans: Learn More; Audio Recording
• 9/16: "The Home Stretch: The Candidates and the Media." Brown-bag lunch with Mark Halperin, editor at large and senior political analyst for Time magazine. Audio Recording
• 9/8: Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for fall 2008. Learn More; Press Release

August

• 8/31: "The Press and the Election: American Demographics," a panel discussion at the Republican National Convention with Dan Balz, the Washington Post; Gwen Ifill, PBS; William Kristol, the Weekly Standard; Bill Schneider, CNN; and Karen Tumulty, Time magazine.
• 8/27: "Old Media, New Media: Political Communication in Transition," an all-day conference co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Political Communication section of the American Political Science Association. Panelists included Bruce Williams, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Michael X. Delli Carpini, and Marion Just.
• 8/24: "The Press and the Election: A Conversation with Sunday Morning TV Moderators," a panel discussion at the Democratic National Convention in Denver with Tom Brokaw, NBC News; Bob Schieffer, CBS News; and George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, and moderated by Judy Woodruff, PBS.

June

• 6/20: "The Future of Journalism," a two-day conference sponsored by Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education. Learn More.

April

• 4/29: Brown-bag lunch with Steve Clemons, publisher of the political blog, "The Washington Note," is a Senior Fellow and Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. Audio Recording
• 4/24: "Of Spies and Spokesmen." Brown-bag lunch with Nicholas Daniloff, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and former foreign correspondent for U. S. News & World Report. Audio Recording
• 4/22: "A Political Reporter's Look at the 2008 Campaign." Brown-bag lunch with Jeanne Cummings, senior political correspondent at Politico.
• 4/15: "A Great Divide in a Historic Campaign." Brown-bag lunch with Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group. Audio Recording
• 4/14: "Covering the Global Rise of Organised Crime."
  Brown-bag lunch with Misha Glenny, author and BBC correspondent. Audio Recording
• 4/11: "Media Tenor of the Presidential Campaign." Brown-bag lunch with Roland Schatz, president of Media Tenor Ltd, a provider of international media-content analysis. Audio Recording
• 4/9: The Shorenstein Center hosted a discussion for reporters on the state of the economy in New York City.
• 4/7: "The Arab and American Media: Communication Tool or Weapon of War?" Brown-bag lunch with Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper and an internationally syndicated political columnist. Audio Recording
• 4/3: "Why We're Financially Illiterate, and What Business Journalism, Especially on TV, Has to Do With It." Brown-bag lunch with Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Audio Recording
• 4/1: "Press Coverage of Global Warming." Brown-bag lunch with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Science Friday. Audio Recording

March

• 3/19: Goldsmith Awards Seminar: "The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting."
  A panel discussion with Paul Steiger, winner of the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism, the finalists and winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting: Joshua Kors, The Nation; Walt Bogdanich, the New York Times;  Tom Dubocq, the Palm Beach Post;  Loretta Tofani, the Salt Lake Tribune; Jo Becker, the Washington Post; Dana Priest and Anne Hull, the Washington Post. Learn More
• 3/18: Goldsmith Awards Ceremony, featuring a keynote speech by Goldsmith Career Award winner Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief of ProPublica and former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. Learn More
• 3/18: "In Defense of Negativity in Politics." Brown-bag lunch with John Geer, winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Best Academic Book and professor of political science and public policy, Vanderbilt University. Audio Recording
• 3/13: "Kosovo at a Crossroads: Security, Politics, Development and the Media." Brown-bag lunch with Major General William Nash, U.S. Army (Ret.); Adjunct senior fellow for conflict prevention and director of the Military Fellows Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Audio Recording
• 3/11: "Newspapers in the Digital Age." Brown-bag lunch with Steve Coll, staff writer at the New Yorker and president and CEO of New America Foundation. Audio Recording
• 3/6: "The Presidential Nominating Process: Is the System Broken?" Brown-bag lunch with Tom Fiedler, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Politics, and James Roosevelt, Jr., co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee of the Democratic National Committee. Video Recording
• 3/4: "The Israel Defense Forces PR War." Brown-bag lunch with Jacob Dallal, formerly with the International Press Office for Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Audio Recording
• 3/3: "Politics 2008 — New Media, New Politics." Brown-bag lunch with Bill Kristol, the Weekly Standard; the New York Times; Fox News Channel and adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School. Audio Recording

February

• 2/21: Journalist, author, and professor Ian Buruma is awarded the 2008 Shorenstein Prize for Asian Reporting. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 2/20: "The 2008 Election: A Look at the Hispanic Vote." Brown-bag lunch with Sergio Bendixen, political pollster and analyst. Audio Recording
• 2/15: "Second-Guessing the New York Times." Brown-bag lunch with Clark Hoyt, the New York Times. Audio Recording
• 2/12: "Supreme Changes: Is the Media Changing the Supreme Court or Vice Versa?" Brown-bag lunch with Dhalia Lithwick, Slate.com. Audio Recording
• 2/6: Reaching the Masses: Public Diplomacy Through U.S. International Communication." Brown-bag lunch with Steve Simmons, Broadcasting Board of Governors.
• 2/5: "The 'HawkEye' View of Campaign 2008." Brown-bag lunch with David Yepsen, Des Moines Register and Institute of Politics Fellow. Audio Recording
• Finalists announced for the 2008 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Press Release

January

• 2/7: Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for spring 2008. Press Release

 
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