The Daily Plan-it / Dean of Students Blog, Columbia J-school

Dean Sreenivasan is hosting a meeting with Mr. Zhang, an editor at ChinaDaily.com, one of China’s largest dailies and the site of country’s official English-language newspaper.

Zhang is in his 20s, a first-time visitor to the US though he has
written quite a bit about the US as an online journalist. He’s interested
in every aspect of internet media and would truly appreciate the opportunity
to know more about programs and training in that field at Columbia in that
field.

Students are welcome to join our discussion and ask questions of him.

Friday, Sept. 22, 4:20-5 pm in room 709. No RSVP required.

Great opporunity to network with journalists from NYT and WNYC, and add several names to your Rolodex. Free event; snacks and wine served.

SAJA NY Chapter presents

a FREE panel discussion….

Five Years After September 11
with
Sudha Acharya, executive director of South Asian Council for Social Services
- her group has worked with South Asian families who lost their loved ones
on 9/11.

Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and executive director of the Restaurant
Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) - she worked with restaurant
workers — and helped organize them, and then opened a restuarant with the
former Windows of the World employees

Moushumi Khan, board member, Muslim Bar Association of New York - a group
that is taking up cases of racial profiling and other civil rights
violations of Muslims

David Rohde, staff writer, investigative desk, The New York Times - former
South Asia co-bureau chief; covered the war in Afghanistan after 9/11

Moderated by Arun Venugopal, reporter, WNYC - he covered 9/11 as a reporter
for India Abroad and Rediff.com and he covered the five-year anniversary for
WNYC

on Friday, September 22, 2006
at 6.30 pm-8:30 pm
Reception from 6:30-7 pm
Discussion 7-8:30 pm

at Gallery Arts India
206 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor - Fifth Ave and 25th St (N/R to 23rd St or 1 to 23rd St)
New York, NY 10010
(212) 725-6092

Free snacks and wine will be served.

We have 10 tickets for the following event. It conflicts with the MANDATORY lecture for all full-time M.S. students on investigative journalism. So only M.A., PhD and PhD students (or faculty/adjuncts) should sign up. Apologies for any incovenience.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/
PANEL: “Jewish Journalists. American Journalism.”
Panelists include Franklin Foer, J.J. Goldberg, Clyde Haberman, William Kristol, and Judith Shulevitz; David Margolick, moderator.
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006
Seven p.m. at 15 W. 16th Street.

TO SIGN UP: Please follow these instructions carefully…

If you haven’t registered on this site earlier, follow these instructions to post a comment - in this case, your interest in attending. If you have already registered, just go ahead and log in and indicate your interest, using your full name and Columbia e-mail address.

* To register for this blog (you only have to do this once for all future comments), go to http://deanstudents.blogsome.com/wp-register.php (once you are registered - includes a password being sent to you via e-mail), go to step 2.

* Click on the “Comments” at the bottom of this post and fill in your FULL NAME - first and last - and Columbia e-mail address (just fill it in once, typing in just “N/A” in the URL section if you don’t have a site.
Your name WILL NOT show up there immediately, but will be there when we approve the comment within a few hours.

Please put your full name in the “Your comment” section - also indicate if you are willing to write a “Notes From…” for this event (we will confirm with you about that)

If more than 10 people RSVP, those 11 and higher will form the wait list for any dropouts. If you are among the first 10, you are confirmed - just come to the DOS Office to pick up your your ticket on Friday, 9/22 or Monday, 9/25. If you are on the waitlist and spot opens up, we will let you know. We may also have extra tickets coming up.

PLEASE NOTE: If you sign up and do not attend (and do not let us know at least two days in advance), you will be barred from taking part in such offers in the future.

Cheers, Deans Sreenivasan & Huff

Dear Students:

Information about the 2006-07 series of Publisher’s Roundtables Dean Lemann is hosting (at each event, he will host a lunch for a major publisher and 15 students - current J-school M.S., M.A. and PhD students) is below.

We have seats available at the following Roundtable - first come, first served. RSVP required.

Wednesday, Sept. 20, noon-1:15 pm
Boxed lunch will be served.

Steve Newhouse, chairman of Advance.net, discussing how the Internet is affecting newspapers and magazines.
[Advance.net, which oversees the Internet vision and strategy for Advance Publications, Inc., includes CondéNet and Advance Internet. Advance.net’s companies build premier independent brands on the Internet, with long-term real value that extend Advance Publications, Inc.’s consumer franchises into the online medium. Over the past five years, CondéNet, working with the magazines of Condé Nast, has created national brands including concierge.com, epicurious.com and style.com. During this same period, Advance Internet, working with Advance Publications’ newspapers, has developed local brands including nj.com, cleveland.com and oregonlive.com.]

Please follow these instructions carefully:

If you haven’t registered on this site earlier, follow these instructions to post a comment - in this case, your interest in attending. If you have already registered, just go ahead and log in and indicate your interest, using your full name and Columbia e-mail address.

* To register for this blog (you only have to do this once for all future comments), go to http://deanstudents.blogsome.com/wp-register.php (once you are registered - includes a password being sent to you via e-mail), go to step 2.

* Click on the “Comments” at the bottom of this post and fill in your FULL NAME - first and last - and Columbia e-mail address (just fill it in once, typing in just “N/A” in the URL section if you don’t have a site.
Your name WILL NOT show up there immediately, but will be there when we approve the comment within a few hours.

If more than 15 people RSVP, those 16 and higher will form the wait list for any dropouts. Confirmations will be e-mailed to those who will be attending by the day before the event.

PLEASE NOTE: If you sign up and do not attend (and do not let us know at least a day in advance), you will not be able to avail of any such offers in the future.

Cheers, Deans Sreenivasan & Huff