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Fall 2010 Press|Politics New Fall Fellows at the Shorenstein Center Shirky Joins Faculty

he Shorenstein One of the most TCenter will be prominent enriched by new thinkers on the Fellows and a social and eco- Writer-in-Residence nomic effects this Fall. of digital tech- nology has “This semester at joined the Sho- the Shorenstein renstein Center Center is going to for the Fall semester. Clay Shirky is the be truly extraordi- Visiting Murrow Lecturer on the Practice nary, with a group of Press and Public Policy and is teaching of fellows and visit- a very popular course on New Media and ing faculty that can Public Action. He has been writing about only be viewed as the Internet since 1996 and is the author all-stars,” said Alex of two important books in the field: Here S. Jones, director Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus. of the Shorenstein Shirky is on the faculty of New York Center. University and works as a consultant Photography by Martha Stewart. focused on the rise of decentralized tech- One of the most celebrated nonfiction writers Fellow, one of the nation’s most celebrated nologies. He is a fine arts graduate of of our time, Tracy Kidder, will be the first A.M. broadcast journalists; Karen Rothmyer, Yale University and worked in New York Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence. consulting editor at the Star (Nairobi, Kenya) City theater before finding his way to and a contributing editor at The Nation; the Internet. Clay Shirky was the original Four Shorenstein Fellows will spend the Sandy Rowe, Knight Fellow, former editor of professor of new media at Hunter College semester researching and writing a paper, The Oregonian; and Dietram Scheufele, the where he created their new media cur- and interacting with students and members of John E. Ross Professor in Science Communica- riculum and helped design their current the Harvard community: Charlie Gibson, Reidy tion at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. MFA in media arts program.

Walter H. Shorenstein, 1915–2010 in this issue

On June 24, 2010, Walter H. Shorenstein, at the age of 95, T.H. White Lecture, p. 2 died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family. He was himself to the very end, in charge and clear in his thinking. Fall Speaker Series, p. 3 With Walter’s passing, the Shorenstein Center, which is named for his late daughter Joan, lost its greatest benefactor Fall Fellows, p. 4 and friend. At his memorial service, his son Doug described the Center as his father’s proudest achievement. Walter Profiles of Scholarship Shorenstein was a great businessman and philanthropist, Winners, p. 5 but even more he was a great citizen who loved his country and extended his vast energy as well as his fortune to make Recent Publications, p. 6 it a better place. We miss him terribly. – Alex Jones PRESS | POLITICS The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy

Rachel Maddow to Deliver 21st Annual William Greider to Theodore H. White Lecture Receive Rachel Maddow will deliver the 21st annual Theodore Nyhan Prize H. White Lecture on Press and Politics on November 14 Preceding the at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. T.H. White Lecture on November 14, Maddow is the host of The Rachel Maddow Show on the David Nyhan MSNBC-TV. In 2005, she was a regular contributor to Prize for Political Journalism will be The Situation with Tucker Carlson and Race for the given to William Greider, national affairs White House with David Gregory. She was a frequent correspondent for The Nation. Previously, guest and sometime guest host on Countdown with he wrote a regular political column for Keith Olbermann, before taking the helm of her own Rolling Stone magazine and served as on- show in September of 2008. She was on the air with air correspondent for six documentary films Air America Radio from 2004 until 2010. She was for PBS’s Frontline. He has served on the a co-host on WRNX radio in Holyoke and WRSI in national staff of The Washington Post, and Northampton, Massachusetts. Maddow received a in 1981, he wrote an influential account of degree in public policy from Stanford University in the Reagan administration, “The Education 1994, was a Rhodes Scholar, and earned a D.Phil. in of David Stockman,” which was published in politics from Oxford University. the Atlantic Monthly.

journalist’s resource Journalist’s Resource at knowledge-based reporting Salant Lecturer Will 2010 AEJMC Conference Be Marcus Brauchli In August the Shorenstein Center attended the Association for Education in Journalism Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conven- The Washington Post, will deliver the tion in Denver, Colorado. Center director third annual Richard S. Salant Lecture Alex S. Jones and Bradlee Professor Thomas on Freedom of the Press on October Patterson led a presentation on the Journalist’s Resource website, a project of the 28, 2010. Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.

The mission of the site is to provide journalism instructors, students and working journalists with reliable research on energy, climate change, health care and more. Each study is accompanied by an overview, teaching notes and links. To help educators, the site also features an Instructor’s Guide with information on how the teaching material is organized, its use and typical journalistic problems.

The conference featured a standing-room-only panel discussion on the Carnegie-Knight Initiative as well as an exhibition hall booth for Journalist’s Resource. For more informa- tion on Journalist’s Resource, go to www.journalistsresource.org.

Conversation with impressive event at San Francisco’s Com- George Shultz. The event was introduced monwealth Club on July 14. by USIP president Richard H. Solomon Madeline Albright and Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. The program, part of a series of occa- Jones. The discussion was moderated by and George Shultz sional dialogues about international Marvin Kalb, founding director of the Sho- affairs and international conflict, featured renstein Center and author-in-residence The United States Institute of Peace and a conversation between two former Sec- at USIP. the Shorenstein Center co-sponsored an retaries of State, Madeline Albright and

2 www.shorensteincenter.org The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy PRESS | POLITICS Welcome, Students! At the Shorenstein Center Open House for students, faculty affiliated with the Center presented class topics and information.

A new course this year is “New Media A student converses with new Shorenstein Center Fellow Clay Shirky, Visiting Murrow Lecturer, speaks with a student. and Public Action,” taught by Clay Shirky, Karen Rothmyer. Visiting Murrow Lecturer.

Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones poses for the camera with Adjunct Lecturer Luci Herman talks about her course, “The Arts of Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, speaks with two two mid-career students. Communication.” students.

Fall Speaker Series Brings Experts on Press September 14 Arianna and Politics to the Shorenstein Center Huffington, co-founder and September 14 editor-in-chief of The Ron Suskind, September 21 Huffington Post. Pulitzer Prize– Susan Chira, winning journalist foreign editor, The and nonfiction author New York Times. September 28 of The Way of the Bill Adair, editor, World and The One PolitiFact; Washington Percent Doctrine. bureau chief, St. Petersburg Times. October 19 October 12 Ari Berman, David Holtzman, political noted digital security/ correspondent, October 26 privacy expert; author The Nation. Eli Pariser, Board of Privacy Lost: How President and former Technology is Endan- executive director, gering Your Privacy. MoveOn.org.

November 9 November 2 David All, founder Renée Loth, of TechRepublican. November 30 columnist, The com and president of Cheryl Contee, Boston Globe. the David All Group. partner, Fission Strategy; co-founder, JackandJillPolitics.com.

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Shorenstein Center Welcomes New Fall Fellows

Charles gibson, the Reidy tracy kidder Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, is one of the is the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in- nation’s most celebrated broadcast journalists Residence at the Shorentstein and television anchors. He covered the White Center. Kidder won the Pulitzer House and Congress and anchored major ABC Prize for General Nonfiction, News broadcasts through 11 election cycles. He the National Book Award, was anchor of World News with Charles Gibson and the Robert F. Kennedy and host of Good Morning America. While at the Award. He is the author of Center, Gibson will examine political polarization several nonfiction books in the U.S. Congress and the multiple causes for including The Soul of a New the current atmosphere of incivility. Machine, Hometown, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength in What Remains. Kidder will teach student workshops on writing, work on his new Karen Rothmyer is a con- book, and participate in Shorenstein Center events. The sulting editor at The Star (Nairobi, Kenya) and A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence Program is designed a contributing editor at The Nation. She has to bring professional nonfiction writers to the Shorenstein worked at news organizations including the Center and provide an opportunity for them to do research AP, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and more and work on a specific project, as well as interact with a recently, as managing editor of The Nation. She community of scholars and students. teaches at the University of Nairobi. Rothmyer will examine how NGOs influence media cover- age of Africa. Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Professor in Sandra Rowe is the Knight Fel- Science Communication at low at the Shorenstein Center. Rowe was editor the University of Wisconsin, of The Oregonian in Portland for 16 years. She Madison. He is co-leader of was executive editor and vice president of The the Public Opinion and Values Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star. She was Research Team at the NSF president of the American Society of Newspaper Center for Nanotechnology in Editors in 1997-98. At the Shorenstein Center, Society at ASU. He was a member of the Nanotechnology Rowe will research how local and regional news Technical Advisory Group to the U.S. President’s Council of organizations can capitalize on digital growth Advisors on Science and Technology. Scheufele’s research and the explosion of social media to expand will look at science, media and public policy and how we accountability coverage. Rowe’s year-long fellowship is funded by the John S. communicate about emerging technologies. and James L. Knight Foundation. Photography by Martha Stewart. Digital September 28, 6 p.m. October 5, 6 p.m. Workshops Mobile Phones as Tools Using Social Media to Launch Your Jed Alpert, co-founder and Chief Campaign or Organization for Students Strategy Officer for Mobile Commons. Morra Aarons-Mele, CEO of Women Online and MC/MPA ’08; and Nicole Rodgers, VP of Fenton October 4, 6 p.m. Communications. Seeing Through the Fog of Digital Fads Jaron Lanier, partner architect at September 22, 6 p.m. Microsoft Research; innovator in residence October 18, 6 p.m. Blogging at the Annenberg School of the University of Crisis Mapping with Crowdmap Sam Graham-Felsen, chief blogger for Southern California; and author of You Are Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public the Obama presidential campaign; digital Not a Gadget … a Manifesto. Policy; and Clay Shirky, Visiting strategist and writer. Murrow Lecturer.

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2010-2011 Shorenstein Scholarship Winners Apply to be a Shorenstein Fellow fields of public policy, and hopefully form lasting connections. The Shorenstein Center offers a one- semester Fellowship at Harvard’s Ken- Much of my previous career has focused nedy School of Government. Fellows are on new media. Although I worked for a seasoned domestic or international jour- newspaper, I worked on our online strategy, nalists, scholars and/or policymakers helped to set up our economic and financial who are interested in the influence Edmund Conway blogs and to introduce other communication of the press on public policy and politics. methods such as Twitter to the group. I am The Fellowships offer a unique oppor- delighted that the Shorenstein Center is also tunity for scholars and practitioners to so focused on new media. I know that many share their knowledge and expertise in I have been plotting, planning and fantasiz- in public policy are intimidated and over- a collegial and intellectually stimulating ing about coming to HKS for some years. whelmed by the communications quandaries environment. The primary focus for a There are public policy schools that excel in raised by the Internet. The Center prefers to Fellow in residence is a paper on a topic various fields, be they diplomatic, economic, cast them as opportunities, which resonates examining and analyzing the influence managerial or communications and the with me. of the press on politics and public policy press, but none combine all the disciplines in the domestic or international arena. quite as cogently as the Kennedy School. I hope that I will come away from HKS a more Applicants may download a copy of the well-rounded, accomplished person, capable Fellowship description and the Fellow- Because I covered the financial crisis for the not merely of writing on public policy issues, ship Application Form from our website, Daily Telegraph, one of my main objectives but of understanding the process by which www.shorensteincenter.org. Deadline was to spend a little more time mulling those decisions are made. I hope that this for applications is February 1, 2011. over economic issues. My intention is also time at HKS, contemplating how public to broaden my knowledge, so I can talk policy is formed, and how best to commu- with more authority on matters beyond the nicate it, will put me in better stead to be a economic and financial field. Most important progressive part of that process. is the opportunity to meet people from all Goldsmith Awards

The Goldsmith Awards Program seeks to encourage a more insightful, spirited public debate about the interrelation- my thoughts and expand my skills at the ship between government, politics and Kennedy School. the press. The program is funded by an annual grant from the Goldsmith Fund I like how the Kennedy School is con- of the Greenfield Foundation. Submis- cerned not only with fixing problems, but sion DEADLINE: December 31, 2010. going further to create better systems. Joel Engardio That’s why the Shorenstein Center mat- THE GOLDSMITH PRIZE FOR INVESTI- ters. It’s the place at the Kennedy School GATIVE REPORTING honors investiga- where we will figure out how to invent a tive reporting in a story or series of new generation of compelling media that related stories that best promotes more is more efficient, effective and sustain- effective and ethical conduct of govern- The Internet age began while I was in able than its predecessor ever was. ment, the making of public policy or the journalism school. I spent my early career practice of politics. The winner receives as a print reporter navigating the dot- I’m also looking forward to my Kennedy $25,000. com rise. During version 2.0, I evolved to School experience to learn and think online video. deeper about business/government THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZES consist relationships, entrepreneurial manage- of trade and academic categories. A Traditional media is quickly fading from ment and negotiation. These forces both prize of $5,000 will be awarded to a existence as I reach my mid-career, but I make possible and benefit from the art of book in each category. know there will always be a future in tell- storytelling. Understanding this synergy ing stories. I have ideas about new ways is the first step to implement my “big For additional information visit our to do storytelling and I hope to formalize idea” in the communication revolution. website: www.shorensteincenter.org.

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Fall 2010 Courses

New Media, Surveillance, Access, Press. Graham Allison, Douglas New Course! New Media and Public Propaganda and Democracy. Dillon Professor of Government; Action. Clay Shirky, Visiting Nolan Bowie, Adjunct Lecturer in David Sanger, Adjunct Lecturer Murrow Lecturer Public Policy The Arts of Communication. Understanding Democracy Through Marie Danziger, Lecturer in Public Seminar: Democracy, Politics History. Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Policy and Institutions (full year). Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social The Arts of Communication (module 2). Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Policy Professor of Government and the Press Luci Herman, Adjunct Lecturer International Relations: Theory and Intensive Writing for Politics and Policy Democratic Governance. Pippa Norris, Policy. Matthew Baum, Kalb (module 1) and Advanced Intensive Paul F. McGuire Lecturer on Comparative Professor of Global Communication; Writing for Politics and Policy (module 2). Politics Stephen Walt, Belfer Professor of Joshua Rothman, Adjunct Lecturer Media, Politics and Power in the Digital International Affairs Entrepreneurship in the Private and Social Age. Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Central Challenges of American Sectors. Dick Cavanagh, Adjunct Public Policy National Security, Strategy and the Lecturer in Public Policy

NEWSMAKERS Spring 2010 Fellows New Books of Interest James Crabtree, HKS graduate Papers Available at and the first Lithgow Summer Intern, www.shorensteincenter.org is the new Comment (OpEd) Editor for A Secret Gift by the Financial Times. Deborah Amos documents and Ted Gup, former analyzes the emergence of Iraq’s Jack Hamilton, former Shorenstein new media outlets in Confusion, Shorenstein Center Fellow, was Center Fellow. Contradiction and Irony: The Iraqi promoted to Provost at LSU. Media in 2010. Marion Just, Shorenstein Center Gene Gibbons looks at how associate, was appointed the William diminished news coverage of state R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political government has affected state Science at Wellesley College. government performance in Ants at the Picnic: A Status Report on News Cognitive Surplus Coverage of State Government. by Clay Shirky, Fall 2010 Visiting Murrow Lecturer. Daniel Schorr, 1916–2010 Journalism legend Daniel Schorr died on July 23, 2010, at the age of 93. Schorr was an active member of the Shorenstein Center’s advisory board since 1987. He Hamlet’s is the only person who has delivered the Theodore BlackBerry H. White Lecture (1993) and received the Goldsmith by william Career Award for Excellence in Journalism (2007). He powers, former was senior news analyst for National Public Radio Shorenstein and had a storied career at CBS News, CNN and the Center Fellow. Christian Science Monitor.

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Shorenstein Center Faculty and Staff

Alex S. Jones, Director; Laurence M. Marion Just, Associate Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics Lombard Lecturer in Press and Public Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor Policy of Practice, Emeritus Dan Okrent, Associate Nancy Palmer, Executive Director Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy Professor of History and Social Policy Matthew Baum, Kalb Professor of Global Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor Communication Leighton W. Klein, Web Journalist of Government, and the Press Nolan Bowie, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Alison Kommer, Staff Assistant Joshua Rothman, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Policy Heather McKinnon, Staff Assistant Clay Shirky, Visiting Murrow Lecturer Richard Cavanagh, Adjunct Lecturer in Kristina Mastropasqua, Staff Assistant Public Policy Janell Sims, Publications Coordinator Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Marie Danziger, Lecturer in Public Policy; Policy Zephyr Teachout, Visiting Assistant Director, HKS Communications Program Professor of Public Policy Jonathan Moore, Associate James Fleming, Financial Administrator Photography by Martha Stewart. Greg Harris, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Luciana Herman, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Edith Holway, Fellows and Programs Administrator Maxine Isaacs, Associate Steve Jarding, Lecturer in Public Policy

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