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Summer 2005 PRESS/POLITICS News from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University From the Director Carnegie-Knight Task Force on Journalism American at Shorenstein Center journalism con- The Shorenstein Center has will focus on research and creat- fronts a crisis been chosen to take a prominent ing a platform for Task Force of confidence role in a new initiative funded members to speak out on jour- not rivaled by the Carnegie Corporation of nalism issues. The founding since the era of New York and the John S. and members of the Task Force are yellow journal- James L. Knight Foundation. The Alex Jones, Geoffrey Cowan of ism. Notwith- initiative involves three distinct USC, Loren Ghiglione of North- standing the efforts: curriculum enrichment western, Nicholas Lemann of Alex S. Jones urgency of (based at journalism schools at Columbia, and Orville Schell of challenges facing serious news- the University of Southern Cali- Berkeley. In the first two years, gathering, this moment in his- fornia; University of California, the Shorenstein Center and tory also offers unparalleled Berkeley; Northwestern Univer- these four journalism schools opportunities and potential for sity and Columbia University); will share in gifts of $2.4 million solutions that preserve the News 21 (an innovative student from the Carnegie Corporation, essential values of traditional internship program), and the and $1.7 million from the journalism while also embracing Carnegie-Knight Task Force on Knight Foundation. (For more the new communications world Journalism. The Task Force, information, please see the that is unfolding. The Carnegie- based at the Shorenstein Center, Director’s letter). Knight Task Force on Journalism is a new vehicle for finding and Diana Henriques Wins 2005 Goldsmith championing solutions to jour- nalism’s modern problems. The Prize for Investigative Reporting Task Force, to be housed at the The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize Shorenstein Center, is part of a for Investigative Reporting was multi-year, 5-university, multi- awarded to Diana Henriques, million dollar project that was business reporter for The New announced in New York City on York Times, on March 22. In her May 26. investigative report entitled Technological, political, eco- “Captive Clientele,” Henriques nomic, and generational change exposed a trail of deceit through have combined to erode the which thousands of American audience for traditional news soldiers were sold misleading Diana Henriques and to weaken time-honored insurance policies, often by for- reporting standards. Many expe- mer military officials. The The Creation of the Media: rienced journalists believe that report’s comprehensive look into Political Origins of Modern their profession is in trouble, the injustices suffered by these Communication and Daniel C. perhaps in crisis. Fairness, accu- soldiers convinced the judges Hallin and Paolo Mancini for racy, and other journalistic that Henriques should receive their book, Comparing Media norms have bent to competitive the Goldsmith Prize—an award Systems: Three Models of Media and partisan pressures, and new for the story that best promotes and Politics. In selecting the outlets—mostly on cable and more effective and ethical con- recipients, members of the selec- the Internet, but also in broad- duct of government, the making tion committee look for acade- casting and print—have risen to of public policy, or the practice mic and trade books which strive of politics in the United States at to improve public governance by the national or local level. exploring the role of the press in The Goldsmith Book Prizes formulating public policy. Continued on page 14 were awarded to Paul Starr for Continued on page 10 www.shorensteincenter.org Press/Politics 2 The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy

Fellows Conduct Research on a Wide Range of Topics

JACQUELINE tial campaign since 1968. Nolan ALEX JONES is a was named Washington bureau SANDERS was senior producer chief in 1969. In 1981, he born, raised and for BBC Televi- became editor of the Globe’s edi- educated in sion News torial page. In 1991, he resumed South Carolina. working on the reporting and in 1995 moved to After serving in evening news San Francisco to cover Califor- the U.S. Army, program. Based nia and the West. In 2001, he he earned his in London, she retired from the Globe and has undergraduate also produces for the BBC over- since written for the California and law degrees at the Univer- seas. Last year she covered the Journal, The New York Times sity of South Carolina. He later war in Iraq and went to Gaza, and the San Francisco Chroni- earned a Master’s Degree in Judi- Israel, Turkey, Kuwait, and the cle. Nolan is a graduate of cial Process from the University USA. Although international Boston College. His paper, of Virginia. He practiced law, news and politics have driven “Orwell Meets Nixon: When served in the Legislature, and much of her career, she has also and Why ‘The Press’ Became the taught law at the University of been an output editor on the Media,” is posted on the Shoren- South Carolina and the Harvard “Today” program, Britain’s lead- stein Center’s website and will Law School. He was chief justice ing daily politics and current be published in the Harvard of the South Carolina Court of affairs radio program. Educated International Journal of Appeals and president of the in Britain and the US, she has Press/Politics. College of Charleston. In 2002, been working for the BBC since he was the Democratic nominee FRITZ PLASSER she was a student. She started as for the United States Senate. He is professor of a reporter for local radio, then ran a student study group at the political science regional TV, before her move to Shorenstein Center on “Civil and chair of the the BBC’s London headquarters. Rights, the South and the Media: Department of Jacqueline Jones’s paper on the 1945 to Now” and is writing Political Science US and European coverage of the about his experiences with the at the Univer- 2004 Presidential campaign dur- press. “The Reporters” is on the sity of Innsbruck ing the period starting with the Center’s website. and director of Democratic National Conven- the Institute for Applied Politi- DOUG AHLERS tion through Election Night cal Research in Vienna. He is the co-founder appears on the Center’s website. earned his Ph.D. from the Uni- of Modem MARTIN F. versity of Vienna. He has been Media, an inter- NOLAN became author, co-author or editor of 28 active advertis- a reporter for books and has published widely ing and The Boston on campaigns, elections and the marketing Globe in 1961. media from a comparative per- agency. He has He covered spective. His recent English lan- been involved in Boston police guage publications include the development and deployment headquarters, Global Political Campaigning: of online services from the first City Hall, the A Worldwide Analysis of Cam- experiments with interactive Massachusetts State House paign Professionals and Their technology through the explosion and New Hampshire politics. Practices and Political Parties of the Internet as a mass medium. As a member of the Globe’s and Electoral Change: Party After the sale of Modem Media, Washington bureau in 1965, he Responses to Electoral Markets. Mr. Ahlers started two venture was on the investigative team His current research interest is a capital firms in the technology cited in the Globe’s Pulitzer comparative study of postmod- arena. In 1983 he received his Prize for meritorious and disin- ern media logic—assessing master’s degree in journalism at terested public service in 1966. American and European political Louisiana State University. He is He covered Congress, the White journalists’ changing quality currently working on a book that House and national politics. He standards. examines the societal and politi- has reported on every presiden- cal impact of new technologies.

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JULIA BAIRD is DAVID ROHDE WALTER the opinion edi- is a foreign cor- SHAPIRO tor at the Syd- respondent for recently com- ney Morning The New York pleted a nine- Herald where Times. Serving year stint as the she writes a as the paper’s twice-weekly weekly column South Asia political colum- on a range of Bureau Co-Chief nist for USA topics including for the past two Today. Over the politics, religion, celebrity, pop and a half years, he has covered course of his career, he has cov- culture, and feminism. She has the countries of Pakistan, ered the 1984 presidential elec- also worked in radio and has Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri tion for Newsweek, the 1988 produced documentaries on sub- Lanka and Bangladesh. In 1994 and 1992 race for Time, and jects as diverse as Satanism, and 1995 he covered the war in written a column on the Clinton heavy metal, and being brought Bosnia for The Christian Science administration for Esquire maga- up by nuns in the 1950s. In 2001 Monitor. His subsequent stories zine. Shapiro, a former White she earned her Ph.D. in history on the massacre of 7,000 Bosn- House speechwriter and a spe- from the University of Sydney. ian Muslims within the town of cial assistant to the Secretary of Her research at the Shorenstein Srebrenica earned him a Pulitzer Labor under President Carter, Center focused on the globaliza- Prize. Rohde, a graduate of holds his B.A. in history from tion of American opinion in the Brown University, is also the the University of Michigan. He lead up to the Iraq war, particu- author of Endgame: The is the author of One-Car Cara- larly in the major cities of allies Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica. van: On the Road with the 2004 like Britain and Australia. While at the Shorenstein Center, Democrats Before American he examined American efforts to Tunes In. While at the Shoren- HANS introduce free media as a means stein Center, Shapiro examined MATHIAS of countering the spread of the changing role of the newspa- KEPPLINGER, Islamic fundamentalism in Mus- per column in the public debate. who earned his lim nations. PhD in political BENJAMIN science in 1970, RICHARD BRADLEE was a is professor in SCHULTZ is joint fellow with communica- James McGill the Institute of tions at the Uni- Professor of Politics. He was versity of Mainz. He is the Political Science vice president author or co-author of 26 books, and former and executive and of articles which have director of the editor at the appeared in major German Center for the Washington Post newspapers and news maga- Study of Regu- when the newspaper published zines, including: Public Opinion lated Industries at McGill Uni- the Pentagon Papers and articles Quarterly, Communication versity. Educated at York that exposed the Watergate scan- Research, Journal of Communi- University in Toronto and the dal. He remains vice president- cation, Political Communica- University of Manchester, Eng- at-large at the Washington Post. tion, Journal of Broadcasting & land, Schultz is currently work- He is the author of Conversa- Electronic Media. His most ing on a book entitled Contested tions with Kennedy and of a recent book, Abschied vom Networks: The Politics of Cana- memoir entitled A Good Life: rationalen Wähler (Farewell to dian Telecommunication Newspapering and Other Adven- the Rational Voter), looks at the 1976–1993. He has written tures. During his semester at effects of TV on the images of more than fifty articles and book Harvard, Ben Bradlee pursued his politicians and their impact chapters and is the author or co- longtime interest in the subject upon voting behavior. Professor editor of eight books. Professor of lying. He conducted a study Kepplinger’s current research is Schultz’s work at the Shoren- group at the Institute of Politics. on the reciprocal effect of mass stein Center focused on the pol- The Shorenstein Center orga- media on politicians. icy issues arising from the nized a series of faculty seminars linkages between media concen- tration and cross-ownership. Continued on page 14

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Shorenstein Center Sponsors Annual Meeting of The Trotter Group

“The Negro leader of today is editor of The Guardian. The first Shorenstein Center and held at not free. He must look to white African-American to graduate Harvard immediately after the men for his very existence, and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard November election. Attendees in consequence he has to waste a College, Trotter is widely discussed issues ranging from the lot of his energy trying to think remembered for challenging “No Child Left Behind” policy, white. What the Negroes need is President Woodrow Wilson’s the threat of nuclear terrorism leaders who can and will think policies on race. and the recent election, to con- black.” On the heels of Bill Clin- While Trotter was attacked by cerns over growing rates of obe- ton’s 1992 campaign promise to the media for his “superabun- sity. While many of the panels provide political refuge to dant untactful belligerency” and focused on issues of race, broad Haitians fleeing from military scorned by many African-Ameri- social issues were explored, rule, three African American cans as a “poor representative of including women’s role in the journalists joined together to his race,” he is revered by this election and the relationship invoke the aforementioned group of journalists for his between religion and politics. words of the journalist, H.L. uncompromising push for racial Thomas Patterson, Nolan Mencken (1880–1956). Hopeful equality. Since The Trotter Bowie, Graham Allison, Robert that a change in the administra- Group’s first meeting (held at Blendon, Richard Parker, and tion would bring attention to the Harvard in 1992), it has endeav- John Kenneth Galbraith all oft-ignored issues facing African- ored to prove that “the craft of spoke to the group. Representa- Americans, DeWayne Wickham journalism has a cadre of black tives of The Trotter Group par- of USA Today and the Gannet columnists ‘who can and will ticipated in a panel discussion in News Service, Derrick Jackson of think black.’” the Forum on “The Next Four The Boston Globe, and News- The Trotter Group’s sixth con- Years: Perspectives of Black day’s Les Payne gathered a group ference was sponsored by the Columnists.” of African American journalists committed to airing issues affecting the black community. Together, they donned the name of The Trotter Group, venerating William Monroe Trotter, former

Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe, and students

Betty Baye, Louisville Courier-Journal, and Nolan Bowie, Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center

Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, and DeWayne Wickham, USA Today, at the Forum event

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Events

In addition to the many spe- Whitaker, Newsweek magazine; cial events hosted by the Geraldine Fabrikant and Shorenstein Center over the past Gretchen Morgenson, year, the Center hosts a regular The New York Times; Andrew series of brown bag lunches dur- Heyward, CBS News; Martha ing the school year. These infor- Raddatz, ABC News; and mal sessions are quite popular John Harwood, The Wall Street within the Kennedy School com- Journal. munity. This semester, speakers have included Cokie Roberts, NPR and ABC News; Mark MacKinnon, Bush campaign strategist; Jane Mayer, The New Jane Mayer Yorker; Daniel Okrent, The New York Times; Darrell West, Brown University; Ann McDaniel, Washington Post Company; Ambassador Joseph Wilson; Kathleen Matthews, WJLA-TV; Chris Matthews, MSNBC; David Yepsen, Des Moines Register; Barbara Cochran, RTNDA; Mark Mark MacKinnon and Alex Jones

The Reappearing Voter? The Vanishing Voter Project Examines Public Interest in the 2004 Presidential Campaign

The Shorenstein Center’s issues in the 2004 campaign, Vanishing Voter Project con- Iraq rather than the economy Percent Involved with the 2004 Campaign by Issue Concern ducted eight national surveys was the main reason for the during the 2004 presidential surge. A focus of the 2004 High Talked about election campaign. Initiated in Vanishing Voter project was Attention Campaign 2000, the Vanishing Voter Pro- younger adults who have tradi- Iraq 52% 50% ject was designed to monitor the tionally been much less inter- Economy 35% 43% public’s involvement in the pres- ested in electoral politics than idential election campaign older adults. The involvement through weekly surveys. The gap between young and old Percent of Age Group Talking 2004 surveys were conducted at shrunk in 2004 with younger about the Campaign on the key moments in the campaign adults much more interested in Average Campaign Day to allow comparisons with 2000. the election than they were in The 2004 surveys showed that 2000. Ultimately, this increased 18–29 30+ throughout the campaign, elec- interest led to higher voter 2000 26% 32% tion interest was higher than at turnout among all voters, partic- 2004 42% 41% similar times during the 2000 ularly among young adults. campaign. Of the two leading

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Courses Cover a Range of Media, Campaign and Election Issues

Mass media, political cam- Tom Patterson, Bradlee Profes- tor of the national Democratic paigns and public policy are just sor of the Press and Politics, Senatorial Campaign Committee some of the subjects covered in taught two courses—a research and has run leadership PACs for courses taught by faculty associ- seminar on Press, Politics and Senators Bob Kerrey and John ated with the Shorenstein Cen- Public Policy and Mobilizing for Edwards. Jarding received an ter. The courses are taken by Political Action. The research undergraduate degree from the students at the Kennedy School, seminar examines selected top- University of South Dakota and as well as undergraduates at ics in the field of press, politics, a master’s degree from the Uni- Harvard College, and graduate and public policy. Students pro- versity of Oklahoma. He taught students from Tufts, MIT, and duce an individual, original, and a course entitled “Running for Harvard’s Business and Law in-depth Policy Analysis Exer- Office and Managing Cam- Schools. cise (PAE) or research paper at paigns.” It is designed for stu- Evan Thomas, the conclusion of the seminar. In dents who wish to run for Edward R. Mur- Mobilizing for Political Action, political office or work in politi- row Visiting Pro- Professor Patterson concentrates cal campaigns. It explores proper fessor of the on the fundamentals and major campaign scheduling; press Practice of Press tendencies of American politics office set-up and press relations; and Public Pol- including political culture; presi- and the creation of a field plan icy, has been dential, congressional and judi- including phone and door-to- assistant manag- cial politics; and public opinion. door canvassing, signage, sup- ing editor at port committees and candidate Newsweek since 1991. For 10 Adjunct Lecturer Maxine advance. years Thomas was Newsweek’s Isaacs taught a course on the Washington bureau chief. From 2004 Presidential Campaign and Fred Schauer, Frank Stanton 1977–1986, he was a writer and Election. The course follows the Professor of the First Amend- editor at Time magazine. campaign from the pre-primary ment, taught a course at the Har- Thomas is the author or co- positioning of candidates vard Law School on evidence. It author of five books, including through the primaries, conven- examines the doctrines, rules, Robert Kennedy: His Life; The tions, general election, and the and policies relating to the proof Very Best Men: The Early Years possible formation of a new gov- of facts in court. It deals substan- of the CIA; and The Man to See: ernment in a change of adminis- tially with the Federal Rules of The Life of Edward Bennett tration. Students have an Evidence and on questions of rel- Williams. He received his under- opportunity to hear from and evance, authentication, physical graduate degree from Harvard exchange views with political evidence, documentary evidence, College and is a graduate of the professionals, journalists, poll- hearsay, privileges, burden of Virginia Law School. sters, media and issue advisors, proof, demonstrations and exper- Thomas taught “Mass Media and others. iments, qualification of wit- and Public Policy.” The course nesses, character evidence, and is an examination of the interac- Steve Jarding, expert testimony. In the spring, tion of politicians, policy mak- Adjunct Lecturer Schauer taught a course on Legal ers, and the media and their in Public Policy, and Political Institutions in impact on policy, the national has spent 25 Development. interest, and personal reputa- years working in tion, drawn from case studies American poli- Alex Jones, Laurence M. Lom- involving national security tics. He is a past bard Lecturer in the Press and issues, Washington scandals, and executive direc- Public Policy, teaches a survey political elections. The course is tor of the South course on Press, Politics and concerned with the era since Dakota Democratic Party and Public Policy. Students examine World War II, including the time former communications director the lessons that can be learned of Vietnam and Watergate, when in Bob Kerrey’s U.S. Senate cam- from recent news coverage of the adversarial role of the press paigns in Nebraska. He has such topics as, the War on Ter- took over. served as communications direc- ror, the war in Iraq, the 2004

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William Kristol Delivers Theodore H. White election, and the current politi- Lecture cal situation. William Kristol, editor of The Marie Danziger, Adjunct Lec- Weekly Standard, delivered the turer in Public Policy, teaches a fifteenth annual Theodore H. course on the Arts of Communi- White Lecture on Press and Poli- cation in the Fall and Spring tics on Dec. 1, 2004. Mr. Kristol semesters. This course, geared addressed “The Meaning of the towards potential leaders in poli- 2004 Election,” and commented tics and public policy, aims to on the impact of the presidential strengthen students’ ability to race and the challenges domesti- communicate effectively in pub- cally and abroad. lic—both in speech and writing. In addition to being editor of The Weekly Standard, Mr. Bill Kristol Lecturer in Public Policy, Kristol has been recognized as Richard Parker, teaches a course one of the nation’s leading politi- Mr. Kristol has published sev- on Religion, Politics and Public cal analysts and commentators, eral articles and essays on such Policy. The course examines the appearing regularly on the Fox topics as constitutional law, pub- shape of American religious News Channel. lic policy, and political beliefs today and probes how Before starting The Weekly philosophy. He has been the they continue to arise in law, pol- Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol co-editor of numerous books and itics, economics, the press, public led the Project for the Republi- his recent book, The War Over morality, and social policy. can Future, where he helped Iraq: America’s Mission and shape the strategy that produced Saddam’s Tyranny, written with Public Opinion, Polling and the 1994 Republican congres- Lawrence Kaplan, was a New Public Policy is a popular course sional victory. Prior to that, he York Times bestseller. taught every Spring by Professor served as chief of staff to Vice The T. H. White Seminar on Robert J. Blendon. The course President Dan Quayle and to December 2 was a lively panel examines the influence and role Secretary of Education William discussion with Kristol, Dotty of public opinion polling in pol- Bennett under President Reagan. Lynch of CBS News, Andy icy decision-making, election Before coming to Washington in Kohut of the Pew Research Cen- campaigns, and journalism. Stu- 1985, he taught politics at the ter, Evan Thomas of Newsweek, dents learn the basic skills University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Professor Theda required to design, use, and criti- at the Kennedy School. He Skocpol, and CNN’s Carlos Wat- cally interpret surveys measur- received both his A.B. (1973) son. A transcript of Kristol’s lec- ing public opinion. and Ph.D. (1979) from Harvard ture and the seminar is available University. on the Center’s website. McGuire Lecturer in Compar- ative Politics, Pippa Norris, teaches Challenges of Democ- racy. It examines how competi- tion, participation, and civil and political rights influence sys- tems of democracy. The course takes a broadly comparative per- spective, looking at both estab- lished and emerging democracies from all regions of the world.

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David Nyhan David Nyhan, a Boston Globe who never forgot his roots. He reporter and columnist for three was an uncommon champion of decades, died of an apparent the common folk. He counted heart attack while shoveling among his friends, not only his snow on January 23, 2005. newspaper colleagues, but the Nyhan, a graduate of Harvard men and women who worked in College and a Shorenstein Fellow the boatyard near his summer in the Spring of 2001, was a reg- home in Maine, and the lobster- ular participant in Shorenstein men he met along the coast. In Center activities before, during, so many ways, but especially in and after his Fellowship. In his the daily example of his own memory, the Nyhan family has extraordinary life, Dave was the asked the Shorenstein Center to conscience of his community.” establish the David Nyhan Prize Those wishing to support cre- for Political Journalism. The first ation of the Nyhan Prize should Nyhan Prize will be awarded on make checks payable to Harvard October 27, 2005. University and send them to In his eulogy, Senator Edward Nancy Palmer at the Shorenstein Kennedy said, “Dave was a man Center, 79 Kennedy Street, Cam- of amazing talent, but most of bridge, MA 02138. all he was a man of the people

Shorenstein Prize Awarded to Legendary Reporter

Nayan Chanda received the complexities of Asia. Chanda is 2005 Shorenstein Prize at a cere- best known for his book, Brother mony in March at Harvard Uni- Enemey: The War after the War, versity. The Shorenstein Prize is on the fate of South Vietnam awarded annually by the Joan and Cambodia after 1975. In a Shorenstein Center on the Press, news article entitled “Legendary Politics and Public Policy and Reporter Gets His Due,” Gary the Walter H. Shorenstein Shapiro of The New York Sun Forum for Asia Pacific Studies at called Mr. Chanda “one of the Stanford University. shrewdest operators in journal- Chanda, former editor of the ism” and noted that “among a Far Eastern Economic Review, is certain strata of journalistic con- currently editor of YaleGlobal gnoscenti, mutters of satisfac- Online and director of publica- tion are being heard that the tions for the Yale Center for the Shorenstein Award for Journal- Study of Globalization. The ism was given to Nayan Shorenstein Prize honors a jour- Chanda.” Previous recipients of nalist for distinguished writing the Shorenstein Prize include Nayan Chanda and reporting that helps Ameri- Stanley Karnow, Orville Schell, cans to better understand the and Don Oberdorfer.

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The Shorenstein Center takes spoke on “American Libel Law Chilton Club in Boston, the great pride in the publication of in Comparative Perspective” at Woodrow Wilson Library in Richard Parker’s book, John the University of Oregon. He Washington, DC, and delivered Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, spoke on a similar subject in the Oweida Lecture on Journal- His Politics, His Economics. July at a colloquium sponsored ism Ethics at Pennsylvania Parker has by the Indonesian Press Council State University. been associated and the Aksara Foundation in Marvin Kalb and Steve Hess’s with the Jakarta. In addition, Schauer’s book, The Media and the War Shorenstein article, “The Boundaries of the on Terrorism, won the 2004 Center since First Amendment,” was pub- Arthur Rowse Award for Press 1993 when he lished in the April 2004 issue of Criticism from the National arrived as a the Harvard Law Review. Press Club. The Associated Fellow, work- During the fall campaign period, Press Broadcasters Association ing on the Gal- Tom Patterson (Bradlee Profes- named “The Kalb Report” the braith book sor of Government and the best public affairs program on and a paper on global television Press) was a featured lecturer at news. His book, published in radio in Washington, DC. roughly a dozen universities, February 2005, has been widely including Emory University, the The Overseas Press Club Award reviewed. It has been called a Michael University of New Hampshire, for Radio was given to “fine one-volume history of Goldfarb (Fellow, Spring 1999) University of Wisconsin-River economic thought in the 20th for his documentary, “British Falls, and Swarthmore College. century” and an “engaging and Jihad,” broadcast on the WBUR Patterson’s article “Young Vot- exhaustive biography.” program “Inside Out.” ers and the 2004 Election” was Alexis Sinduhije (Fellow, Fall the front page story in The Stephen Ward’s book, The 1997) received a 2004 Interna- Polling Report (February 14, Invention of Journalism Ethics: tional Press Freedom Award 2005). The Path to Objectivity and from the Committee to Protect , has been published by Three of the New York Times Beyond Journalists at a ceremony in Book Review’s 100 Notable McGill-Queen’s University New York in November 2004. Books of the Year were written Press. Ward was a Shorenstein Alexis was cited as a Burundian Fellow in the Spring of 1998. by former Shorenstein Fellows. journalist who has withstood Osama: The Making government intimidation in his They are: A new play, “Uranium + of a Terrorist by Jonathan Ran- effort to launch a radio station. Peaches” has been co-authored dal (Fellow, Fall 1998); Politics: by Bill Lanouette (Shorenstein Seth Mnookin (Fellow, Spring Observations & Arguments, Fellow, 1988–89). The play 2004) published his book, Hard 1966–2004 by Hendrik concerns the fight by some News: The Scandals at The Hertzberg (Fellow 1987–1988); Manhattan Project scientists, New York Times and Their and American Dream: Three led by Leo Szilard, to stop the Meaning for American Media. Women, Ten Kids, and a bomb they had built. The play Nation’s Drive to End Welfare Rebecca MacKinnon (Fellow, has had six dramatic readings, by Jason DeParle (Fellow, Fall two with Ed Asner as Leo Spring 2004) is now a Fellow at 2000). Harvard’s Berkman Center on Szilard. the Internet and Society. She Alex Jones gave the keynote Pippa Norris wrote a series of was a driving force in the address at the China Communi- columns for the Financial January 2005 conference on cation Forum 2004, “Journalism Times about the British general “blogging.” and Communication: Research, election in April and May, 2005. Education and Practice in Glob- Fred Her most recent book, with On October 8, 2004, alizing Context” at Beijing Schauer (Frank Stanton Profes- Ronald Inglehart, is Sacred or Broadcasting University. Jones sor of the First Amendment) Secular: Religion and Politics also made speeches at the Worldwide.

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BBC Comes to Cambridge On October 11, 2004, the BBC, the Shorenstein Center and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presented a two part panel discussion, “Election USA.” Two panels, “America and the World” and “America at Home,” were moderated by Stephen Sackur, BBC Europe Correspon- dent and a former Kennedy School student. The program was broadcast by the BBC TV and radio to an audience of millions. In the United States, the program was BBC panel on “America and the World.” Clockwise, from the top: Stephen broadcast on radio. Sackur, Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Graham Allison, Shibley Telhami, Clare Short, George Soros, Helle Dale, Frank Gaffney, and R. James Woolsey

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Andrea Mitchell, Chief For- award ceremony, which took Journal-Constitution; James eign Affairs Correspondent for place on the evening of Tuesday, Fallows of The Atlantic NBC News, received the Gold- March 22nd. Although she Monthly; Steve Suo and Erin smith Career Award for Excel- lauded journalism’s power to Hoover Barnett of The Oregon- lence in Journalism. In addition, provide “lasting images that, ian; Ken Armstrong, Florangela a Special Award of Recognition once stitched together, create Davila and Justin Mayo of The was presented to Frontline and our visual history,” Mitchell’s Seattle Times; and Brett Shipp the BBC for “Ghosts of speech held a tone of caution. and Mark Smith of WFAA-TV, Rwanda,” a documentary on the Condemning the use of video Dallas, TX. Panelists were asked Rwandan genocide. news releases and the govern- to discuss their projects and A speech by Mitchell, recipi- ment’s increasing infiltration some of the challenges faced ent of the Career Award, con- into the mainstream media, she within the field of investigative cluded the first night of the warned, “if we journalists are reporting. Alex Jones, Director of going to continue enjoying our the Shorenstein Center, moder- front row seats, we really have ated the panel. to do a better job of justifying This year marks the four- our privileged access.” Accord- teenth annual Goldsmith ing to Mitchell, journalists must Awards, a program which honors walk a fine line, rejecting gov- excellence in journalism and ernment encroachment so that encourages debate about the they can retain their legitimacy, relationship between the media and thus, their audiences. and the world of politics. Initi- The Goldsmith Awards con- ated in 1991 by a gift from the tinued during the morning of Goldsmith-Greenfield Founda- March 23rd, with a panel discus- tion, the Goldsmith Awards sion between the finalists for the have brought such accomplished prize in investigative reporting. journalists as Linda Greenhouse, Finalists included: Paul Donsky Ted Koppel, and Bob Woodward Andrea Mitchell and Ken Foskett of The Atlanta to the Kennedy School.

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Shorenstein Center Sponsors Convention Events

Since 1992, the Shorenstein Center has sponsored a brunch and panel discussion prior to the start of the national political conventions. In 2004, the Center was delighted to host one of these events “at home” in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard on the Sunday before the Democratic convention. Alex Jones, Judy Woodruff, Dan Rather, Jim Lehrer, Peter Jennings and Alex Jones moderated a panel Tom Brokaw of television news anchors the topics discussed by the News and World Report, Harvard including Tom Brokaw (NBC panelists. University), Al Hunt (The Wall News), Peter Jennings (ABC Six weeks later, the Shorenstein Street Journal), Joe Klein (Time News), Jim Lehrer (PBS), Dan Center went to the Harvard Club magazine) and John Podhoretz Rather (CBS News) and Judy in New York for a panel at the (New York Post). Alex Jones mod- Woodruff (CNN). The role of Republican convention featuring erated a discussion on negative the evening news in an election journalists from the print media, television advertising and the year and the increasing media including Jill Abramson (The New impact of cable television on consolidation were some of York Times), David Gergen (US print coverage.

Bloggers and Traditional Journalists Wrestle with Questions over Future of Mainstream Media On January 21, bloggers, tradi- maintain a sense of credibility. about the topics broached on Fri- tional journalists, and media Conference participants day concluded the conference enthusiasts alike, descended included Jill Abramson of The mid-day on Saturday. upon the campus of the Kennedy New York Times, Dan Gillmor of While discussions became School to take part in a two-day Grassroots Media Inc., Joe heated at times—with questions conference entitled “Blogging, Trippi, Rick Kaplan of MSNBC, over the assumed correlation Journalism and Credibility: Bat- and Tom Rosenstiel of the Com- between large production bud- tleground and Common mittee of Concerned Journalists. gets and good reporting proving Ground.” Organized by the The conference was webcasted particularly contentious—most Shorenstein Center on the Press, live and an online chat enabled seemed to agree that bloggers Politics and Public Policy, the outside listeners to participate and traditional journalists must Berkman Center for Internet and remotely in the discussion. carve a shared space within the Society at the Harvard Law During the first day of the con- information industry. And while School, and the American ference, participants responded to questions over the mainstream Library Association’s Office of discussion papers written by Jay media’s ultimate fate were left Information Technology, the Rosen of NYU and Bill Mitchell unanswered, the conference has conference participants grappled of the Poynter Institute. Rosen’s sparked an ongoing debate that with questions about journal- paper focused on redefining the continues—not surprisingly— ism’s future. Mindful of the role vernacular used to describe over the internet, via email, par- that bloggers played in stories issues related to blogging, jour- ticipants’ blogs and online about Senator Trent Lott and nalism, and credibility. Mitchell’s magazines like Slate. CBS News reports of documents paper dealt with concerns over A transcript of the conference about George Bush’s National ethics. The second day of the and the discussion papers are Guard service, participants wres- conference began with a discus- available at http://cyber.law tled with the changing definition sion by Brendan Greeley (Public .harvard.edu/webcred/index of journalism and debated Radio Exchange) on issues of .php?cat=1. whether either camp—bloggers credibility within the media’s vs. traditional journalists—can audio realm. An open debate

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Shorenstein Center Awards Summer Internships to Kennedy School Students

In honor of the late Lynette Hsing Wei and Steve Grove, have Lithgow, a Shorenstein Fellow been awarded 8-week internships (Spring 2000) and a BBC anchor- with ABC News. They will be woman, the Shorenstein Center working with the investigative will be providing an annual unit headed by Brian Ross in summer internship with a news New York City. The internships organization. The first Lithgow are the first part of a special pro- Summer Intern is James Crab- gram called News 21, funded this tree, a Fulbright Scholar with a year by the Carnegie Corpora- Bachelor of Science in Govern- Lynette Lithgow tion. In the future, the Carnegie ment from the London School of Corporation and the Knight Economics. He will be working Foundation, as part of the Jour- at the British desk of The Econo- of Harvard College. Kirstin will nalism Initiative, will support mist. He hopes that this experi- spend her summer as an intern internships for four Kennedy ence will help to launch a with ABC News Now, assisting School students each summer, as full-time career in political jour- with existing programs and well as students from the jour- nalism. James just completed his the development of original nalism schools at Northwestern first year in the Kennedy programming. She received her University, Columbia University, School’s MPP program. MPP from the Kennedy School University of Southern Califor- The Shorenstein Center also in June 2005. nia and the University of Califor- granted a special summer intern- In addition, two first-year nia, Berkeley. ship to Kirstin Butler, a graduate Kennedy School MPP students,

Scholarships at the Kennedy School

Harvard University’s Kennedy The William A. Starr Innova- their knowledge of public policy School of Government offers tions Fellowship — This fund issues. The Frederick Roy Mar- master’s degrees in public policy was established to support stu- tin Scholarship was established and public administration. If you dents who are working to pro- in 1995 through the estate of are a journalist interested in mote innovative solutions and Nancy Martin. The income from applying to the Kennedy School, imaginative thinking as leaders these two funds supports stu- please consider the following in journalism and public service. dents interested in journalism or scholarship opportunities: The fellowship will be awarded broadcast journalism. William S. Wasserman, Jr. to a journalist in the MPP or Applicants for these scholar- Fellowship on the Press, Politics MPA program who demonstrates ships should contact Anthony and Public Policy — This fund original, non-traditional think- Gallonio, Associate Director of was established by Mr. Wasser- ing in policy analysis and public Financial Aid, John F. Kennedy man to encourage journalists service. School of Government, Harvard and editors (with a preference Lewis Freedman Scholarship University, 79 JFK Street, Cam- for under-represented minorities) for Broadcast Journalism/Freder- bridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-9078. to pursue graduate study in the ick Roy Martin Scholarship — field of the press, politics and The Freedman Scholarship was public policy. The fellowship established in 1993 to encourage offers full tuition plus a stipend. journalists to expand and deepen

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The Shorenstein Center gratefully acknowledges the many gifts received for general operating support, and for special gift funds. We owe a special debt of gratitude to Walter H. Shorenstein for his ongoing and unfailing support. Thank you.

General Operating Support Thomas E. Patterson Douglas C. Ahlers Stanley Renshon Philip S. Balboni Geoffrey Smith John Breglio John W. Thomas Bernice Buresh William O. Wheatley Phil Cavanaugh Howard Gardner David Nyhan Prize for Loren F. Ghiglione Political Journalism Doris Graber William Adams Jack Hamilton Boston Newspaper Guild Roy A. Hammer Jean Hughes Brown Albert R. Hunt David F. D’Alessandro Alex S. Jones David and Kathryn Dahl Kathleen Kendall Michael F. Groden Montague Kern Stan Grossfeld Richard Lambert Marjorie V. Hickey Victor L. Marcus Alex S. Jones Nancy Hicks Maynard Veronica Nyhan Jones and Jake Jones, Jr. John Reidy Constance M. Kastelnik and Judith Robbins Edward F. Jesser A.M. Rosenthal Bill Ketter Walter H. Shorenstein Stephen A. Kurkjian Alan K. Simpson Timothy Leland Richard Tofel Trudy Lieberman Fred and Linda Wertheimer Paul McDermott The Wine Institute Nick Mitropoulos Brian C., Rosemary L. and Goldsmith Awards Program Meredith L. Mooney The Goldsmith-Greenfield Foundation Sean Murphy Lynette Lithgow Summer Martin F. Nolan John Nyhan Internship Fund Kate Nyhan British Broadcasting Corporation Nancy Nyhan Salina Dookheran Nick Nyhan Dow Jones Foundation Olivia Nyhan Andrew Glass Ronald H. and Jeanne Orleans Mimi Goss Vita Paladino-McElroy Mrs. and Mrs. Richard Hermon-Taylor Nancy Palmer Edith M. Holway Thomas E. Patterson Alex S. Jones Francis B. Phillips Marion R. Just Jean Rudnick Marvin Kalb Carol Stocker Tommy T.B. Koh Sally and Bill Taylor Byron McDonald Susan R. Trausch Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Anne C. Wyman Nancy Palmer Michael Zoob Richard Parker

If you would like to make a donation, please send a check made payable to Harvard University, indicating on the check the focus of your gift. You may send contributions to Nancy Palmer, Executive Director, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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Director, continued from page 1

challenge the established journalism that influence the Loren Ghiglione, Dean of the media’s hold on the public’s curricula of the newly created Medill School of Journalism at attention. Even the boundary journalism schools at Columbia Northwestern University, Alex that defines journalism has and Missouri. Jones, Director of the Joan blurred to the point where audi- The Carnegie-Knight Task Shorenstein Center on the Press, ences are confused about what is Force is conceived as a new and Politics and Public Policy at the and is not news. powerful vehicle for helping to Kennedy School of Government America’s journalism schools address the daunting challenges at Harvard University, Nicholas have a skeptical constituency to both journalism and to jour- Lemann, Dean of the Graduate that doubts if these schools nalism education. The Task School of Journalism at Colum- attract the best and the brightest Force would serve as a high pro- bia University, and Orville and that is unconvinced that the file platform for speaking out on Schell, Dean of the Graduate training they offer is a vital issues of critical importance to School of Journalism at the Uni- pathway into the profession. To journalism and journalism edu- versity of California at Berkeley. be sure, journalism graduates cation, and its moral authority We are grateful for the vision still obtain the lion’s share of would derive from the united and support of Vartan Gregorian entry-level journalism positions. voice of its members. Initially, at the Carnegie Corporation and Smaller news organizations par- the Task Force will be made up Hodding Carter at the Knight ticularly prefer applicants who of the heads of five distinguished Foundation, without whom this arrive already trained by journal- journalism programs at five of endeavor would not be possible. ism schools. But that’s a far cry the nation’s most respected from a marketplace that is clam- research universities. Over time, Fellows, continued from page 3 oring at all levels for the oppor- the Task Force’s membership tunity to hire journalism majors will expand as others seek to add on the topic of lying. Co-hosted and to pay them a salary com- their own voice to that of the by Professor Tom Patterson, par- mensurate with the cost of their Task Force. ticipants included Sissela Bok, education. The vision behind creating David Gergen, Steve Goldsmith, These two problems—journal- the Task Force is that a group of Fred Schauer, Maxine Isaacs, ism and journalism education— highly regarded journalism insti- Evan Thomas, Juliette Kayyem, are related. Against the backdrop tutions speaking with one voice Alex Jones, Joe Nye, Dennis of a marketplace that does not will amplify and enhance their Thompson, Elaine Kamarck and reward good journalism, there separate moral authority. That others. Seminars have focused on will not be a strong demand for moral authority must also rest lying and national security, poli- better-trained journalism stu- on a solid foundation of schol- tics, ethics, and the press. dents. And without such train- arly research, which will be the ing, any effort to elevate solid base from which the Task GEOFFREY standards—to create public Force will speak on issues of NYAROTA was demand for higher-quality jour- great importance to journalism a joint fellow nalism—will be incomplete. and journalism education. Con- with the Carr Indeed, it was a combination vincing and ground-breaking Center for of determined leadership in both research will assure that the Human Rights journalism and journalism edu- Task Force is not viewed simply Policy. He cation that brought an end to the as a windy critic, but as a seri- founded Zim- excesses of yellow journalism a ous and thoughtful agent for babwe’s only century ago. Publishers like the positive change. independent daily publication, The New York Times’s Adolph The founding members of the The Daily News, in 1999. Ochs and William Allen White Task Force are Geoffrey Cowan, Nyarota has received seven and thinkers like John Dewey Dean of the Annenberg School international journalism awards. and Walter Lippmann promoted of Communication at the Uni- He was a Nieman Fellow at a socially responsible form of versity of Southern California, Harvard University in 2003–04.

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The Center

Advisory Board

Hushang Ansary Philip S. Balboni Lance Bennett David Broder James W. Carey Richard Cavanagh Philip Cavanaugh E. J. Dionne, Jr. Elizabeth Drew Ann Blinkhorn Driscoll Howard Gardner Loren Ghiglione Doris Graber Roy Hammer Alex S. Jones, Director; Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in Public Policy Carole Shorenstein Hays Nancy Palmer, Executive Director Stephen Hess Ellen Hume Robert Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Management Albert Hunt Nolan Bowie, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Walter Isaacson Jessica Cole, Staff Assistant Marion Just Marie Danziger, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy; Director, KSG Bernard Kalb Communications Program Marvin Kalb Jim Fleming, Financial Administrator Richard Lambert Edith Holway, Administrator for Fellows and Programs Nancy Hicks Maynard Jonathan Moore Maxine Isaacs, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Dan Rather Steve Jarding, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy John S. Reidy Marion Just, Associate Donald S. Rice Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow (Washington) A. M. Rosenthal Rick Kaplan, Associate Daniel Schorr Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Douglas Shorenstein Social Policy Walter H. Shorenstein Alison Kommer, Staff Assistant Sen. Alan K. Simpson Frank Stanton Jonathan Moore, Associate Richard Tofel Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics Linda Wertheimer Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press; Research Director Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment Vanessa Schulz, Staff Assistant Evan Thomas, Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor of the Practice of Press and Public Policy

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