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POLITICS News from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy John F PRESS/POLITICS News from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Spring 2011 Press|Politics Las Vegas Sun Reporters Win Goldsmith Prize Frank Rich Wins he $25,000 Goldsmith Prize presentation of their findings investigative journalism with Career Award Tfor Investigative Reporting has resulted in consumers having imaginative and elegant been awarded to Marshall Allen access to quality-of-care data multimedia representation. and Alex Richards of the Las that will help them make more It is the future of news,” said Vegas Sun for their investigative informed decisions. Alex S. Jones, director of the report “Do No Harm: Hospital Shorenstein Center. Care in Las Vegas.” “This extraordinary piece of work demonstrates the Launched in 1991, the Goldsmith After a two-year investigation, power of teaming high quality Prize for Investigative Reporting including the review honors journalism of 2.9 million records, which promotes the Sun’s five-part more effective and multi-platform ethical conduct of series identified government, the Frank Rich, former New York the preventable making of public Times columnist, received the infections and policy, or the Goldsmith Career Award for injuries taking practice of politics Excellence in Journalism. place in Las Vegas by disclosing hospitals. Allen excessive secrecy, and Richards set impropriety and out to impose mismanagement. in this issue transparency on Salant Lecture, p. 3 Las Vegas hospitals Brian Greenspun (left), so they would be Alex S. Jones, Alex Richards Spring Fellows, p. 4 held accountable. and Marshall Allen. Photography by Martha Charles Gibson Study The multimedia Stewart. Group, p. 5 WikiLeaks Executive Session, p. 6 Rachel Maddow Delivers 21st Speaker Series, p. 7 Annual Theodore H. White Lecture Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Mad- dow Show, gave the 2010 T.H. White Lecture on Press and Politics to a packed Forum on a crisp November evening. In her lecture, Maddow described the current political situation in the United States as a consequence of a system that has “made a market in electioneering that has nothing to do with taking office. We have decoupled the process from the responsibility. And we are making a killing doing it.” Read more on page 2. Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg speaks at HKS. See page 5. PRESS | POLITICS The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy T.H. White Lecturer Rachel Maddow Discusses the Impact of Opinion-Driven Media protect us. We are not fragile. It is to protect politics.... ...The press may now approximate what it is to run for office, but we approximate very, very poorly what it is to hold office. The conflation of those two things is good for TV. It is not necessarily bad for journalism....But I do think it’s bad for governance. Whether or not you believe that the mainstream press is slowly evaporating probably depends on how you feel about the word mainstream. It may also depend on whether or not you used to have a job in the old media and whether or not that job still exists. Lamenting changes in the media is a little bit like lamenting changes in kids these days and that horrible modern music. The complaint is not much different than it was in the 1950’s and the pace of change is not Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones with T.H. White Lecturer The thing to worry about, because of that much affected by the lamentation. Missing Rachel Maddow. Photography by Martha Stewart. decision we have made, is what it does the unsustainable things that we feel moony n November 14, Rachel Maddow, host of to governing. There is a reason people in about in journalism but we’ve lost at this OThe Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, opinion driven news flirt with running for point is academic. Bad setting to make that delivered the 21st annual Theodore H. White claim, I know. But Lecture on Press and Politics at the John F. “The problem in turning politics into frankly the press Kennedy Jr. Forum. did not disappear. profitable and high-profile TV news right The press did not To watch the video of the Lecture, listen to now is not what it does to TV, not what it evaporate. The the audio recording or read the full tran- press changed. And script, visit the Shorenstien Center’s website does to journalism, not what it does to it is still changing. (www.shorensteincenter.org). An excerpt news, it is what it does to politics.” So far what it has from the Lecture follows: changed into is both office. It gives you a ratings spike. Duh. There dangerous and creative. It is both smart and The media in my view is going to be fine. is a reason though that people flirt with it but more than occasionally stupefying. It makes Journalism is going to be fine. The news don’t do it. There is a reason why the version people hate the press broadly and it also is going to be fine. The problem in turning of electioneering done for TV purposes, in my makes people find their heroes among the politics into profitable and high-profile TV view, should be divorced from actual fund- press. It is not brave, this new world, but it news right now is not what it does to TV, not raising and political donations. It is not to is new. what it does to journalism, not what it does to news, it is what it does to politics. When we made a market for mortgages that had nothing to do with houses the result was not good for houses. The result was not good for the baseline American need to keep people in houses. When we made a market for electioneering that had nothing to do with taking office, the thing to worry about that is taking office. 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 Post’s Marcus Brauchli Delivers 2010 Richard S. Salant Lecture n reflecting on today’s media world, 2010 Brauchli observed, but he insisted that the ISalant Lecturer Marcus Brauchli looked “oceans of information” on the Internet favor back to the roots of the organization he “islands of clarity” such as The Post. leads, The Washington Post. Founded in 1877, it was just one in a universe of left- and Before joining The Post, Mr. Brauchli was right-leaning publications. Now, Brauchli managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, said, “we are once again on a frontier.” with responsibility for its newsrooms and editions in the United States and internation- As executive editor of The Post, Brauchli ally, in print and online. He also had editorial is directing the integration of its print and responsibility for MarketWatch, the financial- online newsrooms. “All of us today are part news website. He was appointed managing Marcus Brauchli delivers the third annual Richard S. Salant Lecture. of a digital ecosystem,” he said, noting that editor in April 2007 and resigned one year Photography by Martha Stewart. today stories can originate from a blog or later, after News Corp. acquired the Jour- national editor during the 2000 election, sites such as WikiLeaks as easily as they nal’s parent company, Dow Jones & Co. Mr. the corporate scandals of that era, and the can from mainstream news organizations. Brauchli spent 15 years as a correspondent in Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Journal’s “There’s a lot not to love about new media,” Asia and Europe. He served as the Journal’s coverage of which won a Pulitzer Prize. T.H. White Seminar Explores Political, Media Changes he 2010 Theodore H. White Seminar on media and politics: “We are literally in a time TPress and Politics took place the morning when Americans are re-inventing how they after Rachel Maddow’s T.H. White Lecture. communicate with each other.” Milligan was The seminar panelists were Mindy Finn, GOP less hopeful: The dysfunction in Washington online political consultant; Charles Gibson, is “bad for democracy,” she said, something former ABC News anchor and Reidy Fellow that is “made worse by the media, which just at the Shorenstein Center; William Greider, focuses on the constant campaign.” For Gib- national affairs correspondent for The Nation son, the current media landscape was new, William Greider and recipient of the 2010 Nyhan Prize; but it wasn’t eternal: “The half-life of cable David King, Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy news is very short,” he said, envisioning a Receives David School; and Susan Milligan, former Boston coming world “where there are effectively an Globe reporter and current IOP Fellow. The infinite number of voices.” Nyhan Prize discussion was moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. Preceding the T.H. White Lecture on November 14, the 2010 David Nyhan To begin the discussion, Jones asked panel- Prize for Political Journalism was given ists to reflect on some of the issues raised to William Greider, national affairs cor- by Maddow in her T.H. White Lecture. King respondent for The Nation. In introduc- focused on the rise of the Tea Party, which ing Greider, Alex S. Jones, Shorenstein he felt wasn’t strictly an Internet-driven Center director, said that “despite phenomenon. “New media alone doesn’t do his critical perspective, Bill Greider anything,” he said. “Mobilization still takes has also maintained an endearing place person to person.” Greider agreed, optimism, something very much in the but saw promise in the current tumult in David Nyhan tradition.” David King and Charles Gibson (right) at the T.H.
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