2006 Calendar

February

Tuesday, February 7, 12 noon
Press Freedom, Journalists’ Safety, and the Conflict in Iraq
A brown-bag lunch with Ann Cooper, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the global defense of press freedom.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Wednesday, February 8, 12 noon
Purple Journalism—Red State Blue State Era
A brown bag lunch with Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post
Room B, 5th floor, Taubman Building

Monday, February 13, 7 pm ***Note time***
We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open-Source Journalism, and the Coming Era of the Citizen Activist
A talk with Dan Gillmor, founder and director of the Center for Citizen Media. Part I of Berkman Center's (Harvard Law School) Citizen Media Series, a series of five talks centering on recent developments in grassroots media. Refreshments will be served.
4th floor, Littauer Building

Tuesday, February 14, 12 noon
For Whom Does a Journalist Work?
A brown-bag lunch with Ken Auletta, who writes the Annals of Communication column in the New Yorker magazine and is author of Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way.
Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building [Note room change]

Tuesday, February 21, 12 noon
Listening for the Story: A Columnist's View
A brown bag lunch with Connie Schultz, columnist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She is the author of Life Happens and Other Unavoidable Truths (forthcoming, April 2006).

Monday, February 27, 12 noon
Global Voices: Learning to Listen to the Rest of the World
A brown-bag lunch with Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices, a nonprofit global citizens’ media project sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Room B, 5th floor, Taubman Building

March

Wednesday, March 1, 12 noon
Covering the Bush White House
A brown-bag lunch with David Sanger, New York Times White House correspondent. Sanger has covered the Bush presidency for the past five years. Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics.
IOP conference room, Littauer 166

Tuesday, March 7, 12 noon
Miller's Malfeasance and Woodward's Folly: The Crisis in Access Journalism
A brown-bag lunch with Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University. Professor Gitlin is a regular contributor to the blog TPM Cafe.com and is the author of numerous books, including Letters to a Young Activist; Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, and The Intellectuals and the Flag.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, March 14, 12 noon
The U.S.-Islamic Media Challenge: Twenty Versions of One Event - Similarities and Differences
A brown-bag lunch with Marvin Kalb, senior fellow and founding director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and Carol Saivetz, lecturer in Harvard’s Department of Government
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, March 14, 6 pm
2006 Goldsmith Awards Ceremony
Presentation of the Goldsmith Book Prizes, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. A formal address will be given by Jim Lehrer, 2006 winner of the Goldsmith career award. Lehrer is executive editor and anchor of PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

Wednesday, March 15, 9-11 am
Goldsmith Awards Panel Discussion: The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting
Participating will be the finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Alex Jones will moderate.
5th floor, Taubman

Tuesday, March 21, 12 noon
Covering National Security
A brown-bag lunch with Walter Pincus, veteran intelligence reporter at the Washington Post. Pincus covers the intelligence community, terrorism, the war in Iraq, and intelligence reform. (Kalb Seminiar Room, Taubman 275)

April

Tuesday, April 4, 12 noon
Covering Foreign Policy
A brown-bag lunch with Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief of the the Los Angeles Times. McManus has reported on national and international issues for more than 25 years from Washington, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America.

Tuesday, April 11, 12 noon
Jill Carroll and the Crush of Celebrity Status
Mark Jurkowitz, senior writer and media critic at the Boston Phoenix. Jurkowitz was a media critic at the Boston Globe for ten years and has appeared on National Public Radio’s “On the Media” and CNN’s “Reliable Sources” and is a regular panelist on Boston public television’s “Beat the Press."

Tuesday, April 18, 12 noon
"O" for Orwellian: Doublespeak and Its Effect on Democracy
A brown-bag lunch with Katrina vanden Heuvel, who has been editor of the Nation since 1995. Vanden Heuvel is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

Thursday, April 27, 12 noon
A brown-bag lunch with Rick Kaplan, journalist for over 30 years. Kaplan is president and general manager of MSNBC, NBC News' 24-hour cable channel. Previously, Kaplan served as senior vice president of ABC News.

May

Tuesday, May 2, 12 noon
A brown bag lunch with Susan Chira, foreign editor, the New York Times. Previously, Ms. Chira was editorial director of book development, editor of the Times's “Week in Review” section, and deputy foreign editor.

Thursday, May 4, 12 noon
A brown-bag lunch with Louis Uchitelle, New York Times economics reporter & author of The Disposable American. Uchitelle worked as a reporter, a foreign correspondent, and as the editor of the business news department at the Associated Press before joining the Times in 1980.

September

Tuesday, September 19, 12 noon
Covering Conflict: Reporting from the Middle East
Journalists from the region will share their stories. Moderated by Alex Jones & John Shattuck.
Taubman Building, 5th floor, Rooms ABC

Tuesday, September 26, 12 noon
Brown bag lunch with Tom Edsall, national political reporter for the National Journal and the New Republic and author of Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, September 28, 6 pm
The Journalist and Jihadist: The Murder of Daniel Pearl
This HBO documentary tracks the parallel lives of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and jihadi Omar Sheikh. Co-sponsored with the Institute of Politics.
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

October

Tuesday, October 3, 12 noon
The House of War: The Pentagon and the Rise of American Power
Brown bag lunch with James Carroll. Carroll writes a weekly column for the Boston Globe.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, October 10, 12 noon
Big Media Meets Blogging
James Taranto is editor of OpinonJournal.com and author of the “Best of the Web Today” column, Wall Street Journal.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Friday, October 13th

10-11:45 am
Newspapers and Industry Transformation
Introduction by Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment. With Scott Anthony, managing director, Innosight, and co-author, Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change.
Taubman Building, 5th floor

1:30-3 pm
Traditional News Media: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism
Moderator: Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center.
Panelists: John Carroll, former editor, Los Angeles Times, and Knight Visiting Lecturer; Rick Kaplan, former president, MSNBC and CNN-US; Bill Marimow, vice president for news, National Public Radio; Robin Sproul, vice president and Washington bureau chief, ABC News; Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor, Newsweek, and Visiting Murrow Professor.
Taubman Building, 5th floor

3:15-4:30 pm
New Media and News: Peering Over the Horizon
Moderator: Alex Jones, director, Shorenstein Center.
Panelists: Arianna Huffington, co-founder, HuffingtonPost.com; Jeff Jarvis, writer, BuzzMachine.com, and assoc. prof., City University of New York; Michael Kinsley, founding editor, Slate, and American editor-at-large, the Guardian; Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder, Global Voices Online and former Shorenstein Fellow; Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president, digital operations, New York Times Company; Paul Sagan, president and CEO, Akamai, and Shorenstein Center advisory board.
Taubman Building, 5th floor

Saturday, October 14

10-11:45 am
Media and Democracy
Moderator: Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. Panelists: Nik Gowing, main presenter, BBC World, and former Shorenstein Fellow; Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor and staff writer, The New Yorker, and former Shorenstein Fellow; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor and director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Bill Kovach, former editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Committee of Concerned Journalists; Mark McKinnon, chief media advisor to President George W. Bush and adjunct lecturer in public policy.
Taubman Building, 5th floor

Monday, October 16, 1:15-2:15 pm** (Please note time)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief, is an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post. He is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday October 24, 12 noon
Putin’s Russia: A Look at the Media
Brown bag lunch with Evgeni Kiselev. The Russian journalist and independent political analyst has been covering domestic and international politics for the Russian media for over twenty years.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, October 31, 12 noon
Lighthouse or Street Lamp? Illuminating Reporting in a Global World of Shrinking Bureaus
Brown bag lunch with Karen Elliott House. Karen Elliott House is former senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company and former publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

November

Wednesday, November 1, 1:15pm–2:15pm ** Please note time.**
Brown bag lunch with Mickey Kaus. Kaus, founder of the political blog “Kausfiles,” is author of The End of Equality, for which he won the Washington Monthly’s Political Book Award. He also writes a column, “Chatterbox,” for Slate magazine.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Tuesday, November 14, 12pm
Kofi Annan and the Press
Brown bag lunch with James Traub. Traub is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and author of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. Previously a staff writer for The New Yorker, he has also written for the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Thursday, November 16, 6pm
2006 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics
The Making of Democracy 2006: How the New Media and the Old Media Could Live Together Happily and Enhance Public Life
E.J. Dionne, Jr., The Washington Post
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

Friday, November 17, 9am
2006 Theodore H. White Seminar
A panel discussion with E.J. Dionne, Jr., The Washington Post; Molly Ivins, independent journalist; Garance Franke-Ruta, senior editor at the American Prospect and current Shorenstein Fellow; Christina Martin, former press secretary to Newt Gingrich and current IOP Fellow; Jack Shafer, press critic and editor-at-large for Slate magazine; and Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University.
Moderated by Alex S. Jones
5th Floor, Taubman Building

Tuesday, November 28, 12 noon
"Covering Challenging Issues: Reflections on a Twenty Year Experience"
Brown bag lunch with Tim Sebastian, award-winning former BBC foreign correspondent and presenter of HARDtalk, a daily half-hour interview program for BBC World and BBC News 24.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

December

Monday, December 4 - 4:30 pm
“Press, Politics and Public Policy: The Domestic, International and Web View." A symposium with the Shorenstein Fellows: Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor; Garance Franke-Ruta, The American Prospect; Bill Powers, The National Journal; and Allan Siegal, formerly, The New York Times. Moderated by Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press.
Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building

Tuesday, December 5, 12 noon
"Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate"
Brown bag lunch with Alicia Shepard, author of the new book on Woodward and Bernstein, teaches journalism at American University and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.
Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275

Friday, December 8, 9-4 pm
Shorenstein Center Journalism Workshop for Students
A series of one-hour sessions on journalism with John Carroll, former editor, Los Angeles Times ; Linda Douglass, former chief Capitol Hill correspondent, ABC News; Rick Kaplan, former president of MSNBC and of CNN, U.S.; Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor, Newsweek magazine; Linda Wertheimer, National Public Radio; and a representative from the new media. The sessions are designed for students interested in pursuing a career in journalism or learning more about the field. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Nye Conference Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building