The Shorenstein Prize is awarded annually by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

's John F. Kennedy School of Government

John F. Kennedy School of Government

The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is a public policy and public administration school, and one of Harvard's graduate and professional schools...

, and the Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. The Prize honors a journalist for distinguished writing and reporting that helps Americans to better understand the complexities of Asia.

Previous recipients of the Shorenstein Prize include Stanley Karnow

Stanley Karnow

Stanley Karnow is an American journalist and historian.After serving with the United States Army Air Forces in Asia during World War II, he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in 1947; in 1947 and 1948 he attended the Sorbonne, and from 1948 to 1949 the Institut d'Études Politiques de...

, Orville Schell

Orville Schell

Orville Hickock Schell III is an activist and writer working on China, and is the Arthus Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York...

, Don Oberdorfer

Don Oberdorfer

Don Oberdorfer is an American professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them with The Washington Post...

, John Pomfret

John Pomfret

John Pomfret was an English poet and clergyman.John Pomfret was the son of Thomas Pomfret, vicar of Luton, and went to school in Bedford...

 and Nayan Chanda

Nayan Chanda

Nayan Chanda is a former correspondent and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and co-author of numerous books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy issues. He is best known for his seminal book, Brother Enemy: The War after the War...

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External links

http://www.shorensteincenter.org The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy's Web site: http://www.shorensteincenter.org

http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/series/walter_shorenstein_forum The Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies' Web site: http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/series/walter_shorenstein_forum