The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy

February

Finalists announced for the 2008 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

2/5: Brown-bag lunch with David Yepsen, Des Moines Register and Institute of Politics Fellow. Audio Recording

2/6: Brown-bag lunch with Steve Simmons, Broadcasting Board of Governors.

2/12: Brown-bag lunch with Dhalia Lithwick, Slate.com. Audio Recording

2/15: Brown-bag lunch with Clark Hoyt, the New York Times . Audio Recording

2/20: Brown-bag lunch with Sergio Bendixen, political pollster and analyst. Audio Recording

March

3/3: 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

3/4: Brown-bag lunch with Jacob Dallal, formerly with the International Press Office for Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Audio Recording

3/6: 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

3/11: Brown-bag lunch with Steve Coll, staff writer at the New Yorker and president and CEO of New America Foundation. Audio Recording

3/13: 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

3/18: 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

3/18: Center announces winner of the 2008 Goldsmith Awards. Press Release

April

4/1: Brown-bag lunch with Ira Flatow, host of NPR’s "Science Friday." Audio Recording

4/3: Brown-bag lunch with Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." Audio Recording

4/7: Brown-bag lunch with Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper and an internationally syndicated political columnist. Audio Recording

4/9: Te Shorenstein Center hosted a discussion for reporters on the state of the economy in New York City. Transcript

4/11: Brown-bag lunch with Roland Schatz, president of Media Tenor Ltd, a provider of international media-content analysis. Audio Recording

4/14: Brown-bag lunch with Misha Glenny, author and BBC correspondent. Audio Recording

4/15: Brown-bag lunch with Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group. Audio Recording

4/22: Brown-bag lunch with Jeanne Cummings, senior political correspondent at Politico.

4/24: Brown-bag lunch with Nicholas Daniloff, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and former foreign correspondent for U. S. News & World Report. Audio Recording

4/29: 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

August

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.

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.

8/31: "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.

September

9/8: Shorenstein Center announces fellows and visiting faculty for fall 2008. Learn More; Press Release

9/16: Brown-bag lunch with Mark Halperin, editor at large and senior political analyst for Time magazine: "The Home Stretch: The Candidates and the Media." Audio Recording

9/19: Brown-bag lunch with Jed Horne, metro editor of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans: "Governance vs. Laissez-Faire in Rebuilding New Orleans." Learn More; Audio Recording

9/23: Brown-bag lunch with Alex Castellanos, political media consultant at National Media and a fellow at the Institute of Politics: "The Unprecedented Political Developments of Campaign ‘08" Learn More; Audio Recording

9/30: Brown-bag lunch with Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai: "Akamai: 'Clever and Cool' Innovations on the Internet" Learn More; Audio Recording

October

10/1: Brown-bag lunch with Peter Hart, public-opinion analyst and chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates: "Where We Are" 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

10/6: Brown-bag lunch with Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube: "The YouTube Election: The Impact of Online Video on Political Media." Co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Institute of Politics. Learn More; Audio Recording

10/14: 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: "The 2008 Road to the White House." Learn More; Audio Recording

10/21: Brown-bag lunch with Elizabeth Spayd, editor of Washingtonpost.com: "Newsroom of the Future: What's Working? What Isn't? Where Are We Headed?" Learn More

10/24: Shorenstein Center releases Journalism School Curriculum Enrichment, part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.

November

11/4: 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: "The End of the Trail: What We Know." 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.

11/12: Brown-bag lunch with Gloria Borger, contributing editor and columnist, U.S. News & World Report: "Election 2008 Recap." Learn More; Audio Recording

11/13:Brown-bag lunch with Rory O'Connor, Shorenstein Fellow, blogger, journalist, filmmaker and author of the book, Shock Jocks: "Shock Jocks — Hate Speech and Talk Radio." Learn More; Audio Recording

11/19: 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: "A Look at the Presidential Transition Process." Learn More; Audio 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.

11/20: 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

11/21: 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

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