2005 Calendar

Tuesday, February 8, 12 noon
Secrecy in the Bush Administration: Protecting Intelligence or Disguising Ignorance?
Scott Armstrong, investigative journalist and executive director of the Information Trust and founder of the National Security Archive.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, February 15, 12 noon
A British Journalist’s Reporting from Washington
Julian Borger, U.S. bureau chief, The Guardian.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, February 22, 12 noon
The Polarization of Modern Politics and the Outlook for Change
John Harwood, political editor, The Wall Street Journal.Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, February 24, 6 p.m.
A Conversation with Frank Rich: Propaganda, News and Politics
Frank Rich, columnist and associate editor, The New York Times
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Kennedy School of Government
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics

Wednesday, March 2, 6 p.m.
Asia: Caught in the Web of Nationalism
Nayan Chanda
Director of publications, Yale University Center for the Study of Globalization
Alison Dining Room, Taubman 5th Floor

Wednesday, March 9, 12 noon
Blogs and Other News ‘Conditions’ of Interest
Rick Kaplan, president of MSNBC, NBC news' 24-hour cable channel
Institute of Politics Conference Room, Littauer 166.

Monday, March 14, 1 p.m. (please note time)
The Media, Investing and Public Relations
Geraldine Fabrikant, senior writer for media and investing, The New York Times
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, March 22, 12 noon
Coverage of Corporate Malfeasance
Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor at The New York Times. Morgenson writes the Market Watch column for the Sunday Money and Business section.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, March 22, 3-5 p.m.
What Went Wrong and Why: Explaining the Performance of U.S. Government Policy After the Invasion of Iraq
James Fallows and William Langewiesche. Fallows and Langewieshe are national correspondents for The Atlantic Monthly. They will discuss political failures as seen from Baghdad and Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Nieman Foundation
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall in Harvard Yard

Tuesday, March 22, 6 p.m.
The Goldsmith Awards Ceremony with Andrea Mitchell
The Shorenstein Center presents the Goldsmith Book Prizes, the Goldsmith Investigative Reporting Prize and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. Mitchell is the NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent.
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Kennedy School of Government

Wednesday, March 23, 9-11 a.m.
Goldsmith Seminar: The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting
Participants include the Goldsmith Investigative Prize finalists from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Atlantic Monthly, FRONTLINE and the BBC, The New York Times, The Oregonian, The Seattle Times and WFAA-TV (Dallas, TX).
Taubman Building, 5th Floor

Wednesday, April 6, 12 noon
Media Fragmentation and Food Fights: How Does a Newsweekly Compete?
Mark Whitaker, editor of Newsweek
Alison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman

Thursday, April 7, 1 p.m. (please note time)
Liberals and the Press After 9/11
Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, April 12, 12 noon
Covering the War on Terror: How Bias Can Creep into Reporting
David Rohde, Shorenstein Fellow and foreign correspondent at The New York Times.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Monday, April 18, 12 noon
Iraq: Ground Truth
Martha Raddatz, ABC News State Department Correspondent
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Monday, April 25, 12 noon
Dynasty or Dinosaur? An Insider's Perspective on Network News
Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News
Taubman 5th floor, Room B/C

Wednesday, April 27, 12 noon
Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper
Laurel Leff, associate professor of journalism, Northeastern University
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, May 3, 4:30 p.m.
A multi-faceted discussion with the spring 2005 Shorenstein Fellows.
Topics will include: The Political Impact of Technology, Globalization of American Opinion, Effect of Mass Media on Politicians, Countering Islamic Fundamentalism through Introduction of Free Media, Diversity in the Media, and the Changing Role of the Newspaper Column in the Public Debate Doug Ahlers, co-founder of Modem Media; Julia Baird, opinion editor, Sydney Morning Herald; Hans Kepplinger, professor in communications, University of Mainz; David Rohde, foreign correspondent, The New York Times; Richard Schultz, professor of political science, McGill University; and Walter Shapiro, columnist, formerly USA Today.
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building (KSG), 4th floor

Monday, September 19, 12:30 pm
A Conversation with Judy Woodruff
Moderator: Alex S. Jones
Judy Woodruff, broadcast journalist who has covered politics and breaking news for NBC, PBS, and CNN, served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program, “Inside Politics.” At PBS, she was the chief Washington correspondent for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” and anchored a PBS weekly documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff.” At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent and as chief Washington correspondent for the “Today Show.” She is a Visiting Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center this fall.
Malkin Penthouse, 4th floor, Littauer Building

Tuesday, September 27, 12 noon
Sourcing the News: Perils and Pitfalls
Michael Isikoff, investigative correspondent, Newsweek magazine, has written extensively on the war on terrorism, the Abu Ghraib scandal, campaign-finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues. He is also the co-author of the weekly online Web column “Terror Watch,” which won the 2005 award from the Society of Professional Journalists for best investigative reporting online.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, September 29, 12 noon Democracy: The Human Cost
Michael Goldfarb is the former senior correspondent of “Inside Out,” the award-winning Special Projects Unit of WBUR, Boston. Goldfarb covered major conflicts from Bosnia to Iraq, conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, and covered British politics and culture. Before that, he was NPR's London bureau chief. A former Shorenstein Fellow in 2002, he won a DuPont-Columbia Award for his report, Surviving Torture: Inside Out, and, this past spring was given the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for his report, British Jihad: Inside Out. He is the author of a recent book, Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq.
Fainsod Room, 3rd floor, Littauer Building

Friday, September 30,  3-5 pm
Land of the Settlers: From the Notebook of An Israeli TV Journalist
Chaim Yavin, news anchor at Channel 1 (Israel), has had a distinguished career in broadcast news covering a wide range of topics from Israeli society and politics to the Arab Israeli conflict and efforts at peace. Mr. Yavin will show segments from his documentary "Land of the Settlers" and talk about his experience over a two-year period visiting settlements.
Taubman Building, 5th floor, Rooms ABC

Monday, October 3, 12 noon
Housing in Boston: The View from the Globe
Kim Blanton, housing reporter, Boston Globe. Graduate School of Design, 49 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Portico Room 1st floor
Co-sponsored with the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Tuesday, October 4, 12 noon
The New Cronyism: How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?
Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent, Time magazine
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, October 11, 12 noon
Suzanne Malveaux, White House correspondent, CNN
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Monday, October 17, 12 noon
Housing, the Economy and the ‘Bubble’: The Wall Street Journal
Robert Haggerty, Housing Correspondent, the Wall Street Journal
Fainsod Room, Littauer 3rd floor
Co-sponsored with the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Tuesday, October 18, 12 noon
NPR: With Friends Like These . . .
Michael McCauley, former radio journalist, is associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine; author of The Triumphs and Trials of National Public Radio.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, October 25, 12 noon
What’s Right with Journalism
Roberta Baskin, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity and former senior Washington correspondent for “NOW with Bill Moyers” on PBS.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, October 27, 6 pm
2005 Theodore H. White Lecture
New Media, Old Media,  and the Future of Liberalism
Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic.
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

Friday, October 28, 9-11 am
2005 Theodore H. White Seminar
New Media, Old Media and the Future of Liberalism
A 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; Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect; and David Willman, The Los Angeles Times. Moderator: Alex S. Jones
5th floor, Taubman Building

Tuesday, November 1, 12 pm
The Glaring Gap in the Press Coverage of Iraq
Michael Massing, contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review and contributor to the New York Times Review of Books, is the author of “Now They Tell Us,” a collection of articles about the press coverage of the war in Iraq.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, November 8, 12 pm
The Inside Outsider: Covering America's Economic Policy for The Economist
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Washington Economics Editor, The Economist, covers the American Economy and globalization. She is an alumna of the Kennedy School.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Monday, November 14, 12:15 pm
The American Political Landscape: One Journalist’s Perspective
Adam Nagourney, Institute of Politics Fellow and national political correspondent at the New York Times.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, November 17, 8:30 am
Creating and Framing the Message
Mark McKinnon, President George W. Bush’s senior media advisor and strategist, directed communications and advertising strategy for the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.
5th Floor, Taubman Building, Rooms B/C

Tuesday, November 22, 12 pm
Why Write?
Roger Rosenblatt, Visiting Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of the Practice of Press and Public Policy, writes essays, books and plays. He has written essays for Time magazine and for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” PBS.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, November 29, 12 pm
Effective Communication in Today's Global Information Environment
General Vincent Brooks, chief of public affairs for the U. S. Army at the Pentagon, served as a deputy director for operations and the chief operations spokesman with the U.S. Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

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