Author and magazine journalist Shane Harris presents the talk “The New Cold War: Hackers, Drones, and Cyber Spies” at 7:30-9 p.m. Thursday at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on North Campus.
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Harris will discuss the threats and challenges that define America’s national security in the 21st century. He has spent the last decade writing about national security and counterterrorism.
Harris, winner of the 24th annual Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, is senior writer for the Washingtonian, called “the magazine that Washington lives by.” He is the author of “The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State,” voted one of 2010’s Best Books by The Economist.
“The Watchers” tells the story of five men who played central roles in the creation of a vast national security apparatus and the rise of surveillance in America. The book won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Economist named it one of the best books of 2010.
Harris began his journalism career in 1999, as the research coordinator and a writer for Governing magazine in Washington. He has four times been named a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, which honor the best journalists in America under the age of 35. He is a former technology editor and a staff correspondent at Government Executive magazine, and former managing editor for Movieline magazine in Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Washingtonian in 2010, Harris was a staff correspondent for National Journal for five years.
His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Daily Beast, TheAtlantic.com, National Journal, The Washington Post, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings. He has provided analysis and commentary for CNN, the BBC, The History Channel, NPR and local public radio stations.
There is free admission and open seating. A reception follows the program.
