Tag: Laura Poitras

  • Nation & World

    A prize of a weekend

    The 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes brought leading lights from journalism and the arts to Harvard to reflect on accountability and the abuse of power.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lauding journalism’s ‘watchdog role’

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard presented the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence to documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, and the I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award to broadcast journalist Amy Goodman.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A ‘sitdown’ with Snowden

    By videoconference on Monday, Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who last year leaked more than 200,000 classified documents about U.S. surveillance efforts.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Defending Snowden

    Ben Wizner of the ACLU talked about his work on the Edward Snowden case in a visit to HLS.

    4 minutes