DISCUSSION: REPORTING IN AFRICA: An Open and Frank Discussion about Reporting from the Continent
Columbia University Association of Black Journalists present:
REPORTING IN AFRICA: An Open and Frank
Discussion about Reporting from the Continent
Tuesday, March 31st @ 5pm in the Stabile Student Center
Panelists:
Frankie Edozien: Director, NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s Ghana ‘Reporting Africa’ program, co-founder, African Magazine, 2008 Kaiser Foundation Fellow, former reporter, New York Post.
Allan Dodds Frank: President, Overseas Press Club of America, contributor, the Daily Beast, former investigative and legal correspondent, Bloomberg Television, former Business Investigative Correspondent, CNN’s “Moneyline with Lou Dobbs”, former Business Investigative Correspondent, ABC News, former Senior Editor, Forbes, Columbia J-school Grad.
Milton Allimadi: Founder, publisher and Editor-In-Chief, The Black Star News, former stringer, The New York Times and The City Sun, author, The Hearts of Darkness, Columbia J-school Grad, ’92.
Arlene Getz: Senior Editor, Newsweek Worldwide Special Editions, former Deputy Editor & Foreign Editor, Newsweek.com, former foreign correspondent, Gemini News Service, St. Petersburg Times, the Sydney Morning Herald of Australia, first vice-president, Overseas Press Club.
Howard French: professor, Columbia University, freelance reporter, the Washington Post, former Metropolitan reporter, the New York Times, former bureau chief; Central America and the Caribbean, West Africa, Japan, the Koreas and China for the New York Times, former columnist, the International Herald Tribune, author, A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa.
Q & A with panelists to follow. This is the only event
of this kind this year…don’t miss out!
