2009 Archive

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November

• 11/17: "Media and Politics." Brown-bag lunch with Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-TN). Learn More; Audio Recording
• 11/16: "Politicians and the Press: The Anatomy of a Complicated Relationship." A conversation with Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and Democratic nominee for president in 1988, and Renee Loth, The Boston Globe. Moderated by Dan Okrent, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
• 11/13: Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize–winning author; Dan Balz, The Washington Post; Elaine Kamarck and Alex Keyssar, Harvard Kennedy School; Renee Loth, The Boston Globe. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director. Learn More
• 11/12: "Disjointed History: Modern Politics and the Media." Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics by Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the trilogy, America in the King Years and The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. Nat Hentoff received the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism. Learn More; Audio Recording; Video Recording
• 11/10: "Conflict in Global Finance After the Meltdown: Reconciling Competing Priorities." Kelman Lecture with Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
• 11/10: "Business and International Coverage for a Paying U.S. Audience." Brown-bag lunch with Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor, Financial Times. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 11/9: "Journalism's Roving Eye: American Newsgathering Abroad." Brown-bag lunch with John M. Hamilton, Dean, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 11/3: "The Problem with Punditry." Brown-bag lunch with Kathleen Parker, syndicated columnist, The Washington Post Writers Group. Learn More
• 11/2: "The Future of News." Panel with Robin Sproul, Washington Bureau Chief for ABC News; Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center and author of the new book Losing the News; Jeff Howe, contributing editor to Wired magazine and Nieman Fellow; and Marty Baron, editor of The Boston Globe. Moderated by Tom Fiedler, Dean of Boston University's College of Communication and former editor of The Miami Herald. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Learn More; Audio Recording; Video Recording
• 11/2: "Analog Policy to Digital Policy: Hope and Change." Brown-bag lunch with Susan Crawford, Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and a member of the National Economic Council. Learn More; Audio Recording

October

• 10/29: "How to Make Money in News: New Business Models for the 21st Century." Executive session funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Learn More; Transcript (unedited)
• 10/27: "Barack Obama v. the Freak Show: Politics and Media on the Wild Frontier." Brown-bag lunch with John F. Harris, editor-in-chief, Politico. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 10/26: "Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War: New Evidence on Strategic Defense and Biological Weapons." Brown-bag lunch with David Hoffman, contributing editor, The Washington Post. Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs.
• 10/22: Second annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press with Lecturer Jonathan Zittrain. Learn More; Audio Recording; Video recording; Transcript (unedited). The Salant Lecture was preceded with the presentation to La Repubblica editor Ezio Mauro of a citation for leading the fight for press freedom in Italy. Press Release
• 10/20: "The Future of the Newspaper Business." Discussion with Jim Hoge, editor, Foreign Affairs. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 10/16: "Obama's Education Agenda: Is It an Extension of Bush?" Brown-bag lunch with Dale Mezzacappa, award-winning education reporter and president of the Education Writers Association. Moderated by IOP Fellow Gina Glantz. Co-sponsored by the Communications and Media Professional Interest Council (PIC) and Education PIC.
• 10/14: "Obama's Foreign Policy: Iran and Afghanistan." Brown-bag lunch with Joe Klein, columnist, Time magazine. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 10/13: "Covering the White House." Brown-bag lunch with Major Garrett, senior White House correspondent for Fox News. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 10/6: "Israel and Palestine: Making Connections Across a Deep Historical Divide." Discussion with Ibrahim Barzaq, correspondent, The Associated Press and Nieman Fellow and Gabriella Blum, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
• 10/6: "Media Cloud and Quantitative Media Analysis." Brown-bag lunch with Ethan Zuckerman, senior researcher, Berkman Center for Internet and Society; co-founder, Media Cloud. Learn More
• 10/5: "One Hundred Days After the Iranian Elections." Brown-bag lunch with Iason Athanasiadis, photojournalist and former Nieman Fellow. Moderated by Stephen Williams, Shorenstein Fellow; BBC producer responsible for the creation of BBC Persian TV. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.

September

• 9/30: Briefing on Health Care Reform. Panelists include David Broder, The Washington Post; Linda Douglass, White House Office of Health Reform, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. Timothy Johnson, ABC News; Robert Blendon and Theda Skocpol, Harvard University; and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein Center director. Learn More
• 9/29: "How Do We Grow From Here? The American Economy After the Great Recession." Brown-bag lunch with David Leonhardt, New York Times Economic Scene columnist. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 9/22: "Internet Issues Facing Newspapers: The Risk of Paywalls, the Assembly of 'Publics' for News and the Growing Incoherence of Newspapers as a Bundle." Brown-bag lunch with Clay Shirky, New York University. Co-sponsored by the Berkman Center. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 9/15: "In the Global Village, Can War Survive?" Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict with Susan Hackley, managing director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and James Reynolds, China correspondent for BBC News and Nieman Fellow. Moderator: Donna Hicks, Associate of the Weatherhead Center. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Nieman Foundation and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
• 9/15: "Obama: Down to the Nitty-Gritty." Brown-bag lunch with Candy Crowley, CNN's senior political correspondent. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 9/8: Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for fall 2009. Learn More; Press Release

May

• 5/6: "The Future of 'Internet Campaigning': The Globalization of Local Elections." A discussion with Zephyr Teachout, visiting assistant professor of law at Duke University. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 5/5: "What Worked in Iraq Won't Help Afghanistan." A conversation with Rory Stewart, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Hosted by the Shorenstein Center, the Nieman Foundation, the Weatherhead Center and the Program on Negotiation.

April

• 4/28: "The Future of Science Journalism." Panel moderated by Cristine Russell and Philip Hilts, with Andrew Revkin, New York Times environment reporter; Ivan Oransky, online managing editor for Scientific American; and Evan Hadingham, senior science editor of Nova. Co-hosted by the Shorenstein Center, Knight Science Fellowship program and MIT. Learn More
• 4/28: "GlobalPost: Transforming the Coverage of International News in the Digital Age." Brown-bag lunch with Philip Balboni, president and chief executive officer, GlobalPost. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 4/21: "Who Caused the Crisis and What We Can Do." Brown-bag lunch with Jeff Madrick, editor, Challenge magazine; contributor, New York Review of Books. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 4/15: "White House Politics and Economic Policy." Brown-bag lunch with Richard Parker, Senior Shorenstein Fellow and Lecturer in Public Policy.
• 4/14: "Health Care Reform: What the Public Needs to Know." Brown-bag lunch with Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor, ABC News. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 4/7: "First 100 Days and the Press." Brown-bag lunch with Rick Kaplan, executive producer, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 4/1: "The Politics of Covering Regular People." Brown-bag lunch with Connie Schultz, columnist, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Learn More; Audio Recording

March

• 3/18: Goldsmith Awards seminar, "The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting," featuring book prize winner Jane Mayer as well as journalists from the Charlotte Observer, Detroit Free Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Times, Washington Post and ProPublica. Learn More; Audio Recording; Transcript
• 3/17: Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism given to Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Learn More; Video Recording; Transcript
• 3/17: Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting awarded to Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post for their investigative report "Forced Out." Learn More; Video Recording; Transcript
• 3/17: "The New Administration and Change." Brown-bag lunch with Robin Sproul, Washington bureau chief for ABC News. Learn More;  Audio Recording
• 3/13: "Will Obama's Recovery Plan Work?" Discussion on the U.S. economic crisis with Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy and senior fellow. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 3/10: "Covering Obama World." Brown-bag lunch with Jodi Kantor, Washington correspondent for the New York Times. Learn More;  Audio Recording
• 3/3: "Fallen Sky: Finding a Way Forward After the Media Shakeout." Brown-bag lunch with David Carr, media columnist for the New York Times. Learn More;  Audio Recording

February

• 2/24: "Web Media and the Future of Journalism." Brown-bag lunch with Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of Slate. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 2/19: "Briefing for Journalists on the Economy and New York," a conversation with New Jersey governor Jon S. Corzine and New York governor David A. Paterson, moderated by Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 2/17: "The New Administration: How Long the Honeymoon?" Brown-bag lunch with Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 2/12: Seth Mydans of the New York Times and International Herald Tribune is awarded the Shorenstein Prize for Asian Reporting. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 2/11: "Economic Challenges Facing the Obama Administration."
  A conversation about the current economic situation with Richard Parker, senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center. Moderated by Thomas Patterson.
  
• 2/10: "The Future of the Media." Brown-bag lunch with Ken Auletta of the New Yorker. Learn More; Audio Recording
• 2/3: "The Economy: Where Are We Headed?" Brown-bag lunch with Joe Nocera, columnist for the New York Times. Learn More; Audio Recording

January

• 1/29: Shorenstein Center announces finalists for the 2009 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. They are Ames Alexander, Kerry Hall, Franco Ordonez, Ted Mellnik and Peter St. Onge of the Charlotte Observer; Jim Schaefer, M.L. Elrick, and Detroit Free Press staff; David Barstow of the New York Times; Patricia Sabatini and Len Boselovic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica; and Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post. Learn More; Press Release
• 1/26: Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for spring 2009. The fellows are veteran journalists James O'Shea and Maralee Schwartz, NYU's Mitchell Stephens and Michael Traugott of the University of Michigan. Nicco Mele, with the IOP last semester, is Visiting Murrow Lecturer. Learn More; Press Release

 
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