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John Carroll, the former editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) during the spring semester. The Shorenstein fellowship program appoints up to six distinguished journalists, scholars, and policy makers each semester to explore a topic concerning the relationship between the mass media and politics. Fellows must produce a final paper and are encouraged to attend seminars at the center and give public lectures. Carroll offers unparalleled expertise in the newspaper business, according to Alex S. Jones, the Shorenstein Center?...
Criticism of media coverage of the Iraq war and the effects that it has on the public dominated a speech given yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) by Michael A. Massing ’74, contributing editor for the Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Review of Books. The speech, entitled “The Glaring Gap in Press Coverage of Iraq,” explored the main areas that Massing said get little coverage in the press—including the U.S. military’s checkpoint strategy, the use of convoys, and the counter-insurgency...
Hariri was assassinated when an explosion hit his motorcade in February. The former prime minister made his fortune in construction and established the Hariri Foundation in 1979, which helps Lebanese students study at institutions abroad, including the KSG...
...coordinator of educational programs and public affairs at the foundation, David J. Thompson, Hariri had an “international perspective” of world affairs, and he believed in supporting studies that would pursue this perspective. The foundation helped to set up a chair in political economy at KSG in 1992. The chair, which is in Hariri’s name, is currently held by Dani Rodrik...
...Security Council has approved a resolution demanding that Syria step up its efforts to investigate its involvement in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) benefactor Rafik Hariri...