REPORT: Notes From… Martin Smith talk
On Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, Martin Smith, a distinguished producer at Frontline on PBS, spoke to the class in a session moderated by Prof. June Cross.
You can listen to an audio recording:
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/students/class_lectures.asp
Here is a report, by Doree Shafrir, J2006, of CJRDaily.org:
http://www.cjrdaily.org/behind_the_news/for_frontline_producer_katr.php
Excerpt:
His November 2005 report for Frontline on Hurricane Katrina was unlike anything he’s ever worked on, Smith told an audience of new students at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism Tuesday evening.
That film, The Storm, tells the story of the government’s missteps in the days leading up to and directly after Katrina. “I was affected more by Katrina than Iraq, by the vastness of the devastation,” he said.
The film’s unsparing scenes of mothers crying out for food for their children, looting, police brutality and other bits of mayhem in the days following the storm do indeed make for powerful television.
Read the entire report.
