IN MEMORIAM: David Halberstam’ s 2005 Graduation Address & Other Links
Legendary journalist David Halberstam, who was killed in a car crash on April 23, 2007, had a long relationship with the Columbia J-school over several decades.
In 2005, he received the Columbia Journalism School’s highest honor, the Columbia Journalism Award and addressed that year’s graduates.
See the text of his speech here:
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/students/graduation2005/halberstam.asp
UPDATE: Prof. Mirta Ojito writes in Poynter about listening to Halberstam’s final speech at Berkeley:
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=122105.
You can also hear audio and read a transcript of that speech here: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/halberstam/
UPDATE FROM CJR:
Rewind: David Halberstam on reporting Vietnam
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2006/6/Halberstam1.aspMuch of what has been written about Halberstam in the wake of his tragic
death April 23rd, is about Halberstam the writer. But Halberstam was
primarily a reporter. He took great joy in it and respected others who did it
well. Here, in an article for our November 2006 issue, he salutes the other
great reporters who told a true story of the war in Vietnam.
