December 3, 2009

Losing the News

Magazine donors visited Malkin Penthouse at the Kennedy School of Government for a book signing.

On December 3, 2009, Harvard Magazine donors were invited to a conversation and book signing with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Alex S. Jones, Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, about his new book Losing the News: The future of the News That feeds Democracy.

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