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2008 Calendar

February

Tuesday, February 5, 12 p.m.
"The 'HawkEye' View of Campaign 2008"
Brown-bag lunch with David Yepsen, political columnist for the Des Moines Register and IOP Fellow .
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Wednesday, February 6, 12 p.m.
"Reaching the Masses:  Public Diplomacy Through U.S. International Communication"
Brown-bag lunch with Steve Simmons, Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building

Tuesday, February 12, 12 p.m.
"Supreme Changes: Is the Media Changing the Supreme Court or Vice Versa?"
Brown-bag lunch with Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate.com.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Friday, February 15, 12 p.m.
"Second-Guessing the New York Times"
Brown-bag lunch with Clark Hoyt, public editor of the New York Times.
Littauer 166, Institute of Politics Conference Room

Wednesday, February 20, 12 p.m.
"The 2008 Election: A Look at the Hispanic Vote"
Brown-bag lunch with Sergio Bendixen, political pollster and analyst for Bendixen & Associates.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

March

Monday, March 3, 12-1 p.m.
"Politics 2008 — New Media, New Politics "
Brown-bag lunch with Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, columnist for The New York Times, analyst at Fox News Channel and adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School. 
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, March 4, 12-1 p.m.
"The Israel Defense Forces PR War"
Brown-bag lunch with Jacob Dallal, former acting head of the International Press Office in the IDF Spokesperson's unit.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, March 6, 12-1 p.m.
"The Presidential Nominating Process: Is the System Broken?"
A bown bag lunch with Tom Fiedler, Visiting Murrow Lecturer of the Practice of Press and Politics and former editor of the Miami Herald and James Roosevelt, co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee of the Democratic National Committee and president and CEO of Tufts Health Plan. 
IOP Conference Room, Littauer 166 — Co-Sponsored with the Institute of Politics

Tuesday, March 11, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
"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. 
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, March 13, 12-1 p.m.
"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.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, March 18, 12-1 p.m.
"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.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, March 18, 6 p.m.
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.
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

Wednesday, March 19, 9-11 a.m.
The 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.
Nye Conference Center, 5th Floor, Taubman Building

April

Tuesday, April 1, 12-1 p.m.
"Press Coverage of Global Warming "
Brown-bag lunch with Ira Flatow, host of NPR’s "Science Friday."
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, April 3, 12-1 p.m.
"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. "
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Monday, April 7, 1-2 p.m.
"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. 
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Friday, April 11, 1-2 p.m.
"Media Tenor of the Presidential Campaign "
Brown-bag lunch with Roland Schatz, president of Media Tenor Ltd, a provider of international media-content analysis.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Monday, April 14, 12-1 p.m.
"Covering the Global Rise of Organised Crime"
Brown-bag lunch with Misha Glenny, author and BBC correspondent.
Institute of Politics Conference Room, Littauer 166

Tuesday, April 15, 12-1 p.m.
"A Great Divide in a Historic Campaign"
Brown-bag lunch with Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, April 22,  12-1 p.m.
"A Political Reporter's Look at the 2008 Campaign"
Brown-bag lunch with Jeanne Cummings, senior political correspondent at Politico.
Institute of Politics Conference Room, Littauer 166

Thursday, April 24, 12-1 p.m.
"Of Spies and Spokesmen "
Brown-bag lunch with Nicholas Daniloff, professor or journalism at Northeastern University and former foreign correspondent for U.S. News & World Report.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, April 29, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
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.
Institute of Politics Conference Room, Littauer 166

September

Tuesday, September 16, 12-1 p.m.
Brown-bag lunch with Mark Halperin, editor at large and senior political analyst for Time magazine.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Friday, September 19, 12-1 p.m.
Brown-bag lunch with Jed Horne, metro editor of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
Location TBD

Tuesday, September 23, 12-1 p.m.
Brown-bag lunch with Alex Castellanos, political media consultant at National Media, Inc. and a fellow at the Institute of Politics.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, September 30, 12-1 p.m.
Brown-bag lunch with Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

 

 


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