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American Medical Writers Association-NY

Join us in June for an informational workshop on publication ethics for medical writers and editors. Enjoy conversation with your colleagues across the industry, learn from our panel discussion, and weigh in during break-out groups. Please email Elizabeth Yepez, elizabeth.yepez@informausa.com, program chair, if you want to recommend a panelist. Keep an eye out for more details in our next email or fax.

2) Save the Date: Networking Lunch on Sat. August 22nd, 1pm

Have brunch with your writing buddies on the Upper East Side at Galway Hooker (http://www.galwayhookernyc.com ) at 1 pm on Sat. Aug 22. Space limited. RSVP details in our next email.

2009 CAAM MEDIA FUND REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) seeks provocative and engaging project proposals from independent media producers. We provide funding for Asian American film and media projects through our Media Fund initiatives which are made possible with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Projects should be intended for public television broadcast.

OPEN CALL FOR PRODUCTION FUNDS

Deadline: 8/6/09 by 5pm Pacific *

For projects at post-production phase. To be eligible, a full length rough cut must be submitted with the proposal. Awards average $20,000 to $30,000 and CAAM monies should be the last monies needed to finish the project.

To apply visit the Media Fund website at: http://mediafund.asianamericanmedia.org

* PLEASE NOTE: Deadlines are not postmark deadlines.

Dear Public Safety Friends,

There are a number of cell phone carriers that give discounts to existing or new customers that are Columbia University Students, Faculty or Staff.

Below are links for several carriers that give monthly discounts. Follow the link to receive your discount. Every little bit helps:

NOTE: Must be a COLUMBIA, Student, Faculty or Staff.

T-Mobile- 8% off per month http://extranet.t-mobile.com/tmobile-exc/extranet/select.do?id=2d2457fa1a658e5efb8491e94ec71db2b3e924cb8b6ef95a

Please don’t forget to join CU Public Safety’s NYPD Blue Light program for cell phones & other small electronics. The NYPD Blue Light (invisable ink) program is a new tool that the NYPD is using to identify stolen electronics. The unique number used can only be viewed by a special police light.

The NYPD Blue Light program is also great for laptops and other electronics. For more information on this FREE & effective program, please CU Crime Prevention at 854-8513.

Thank You,

Ricardo Morales
Manager Crime Prevention Programs
Columbia University
Department of Public Safety
212-854-8513

www.columbia.edu/cu/publicsafety

Columbia University Association of Black Journalists present:

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!

ADL’S CAMPUS LEADERSHIP STUDY MISSION TO ISRAEL

Stacey

The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, US-Israel relations, Hamas, Hezbollah and the threat of a nuclear Iran make daily headlines and often resonate on your campus. To learn about and assess these important issues first-hand, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is offering qualified campus leaders the opportunity to go on a FREE study mission to Israel.

ADL’s Campus Leadership Study Mission to Israel, to take place June 8-17, 2009, provides student journalists and politically active leaders with an up-close and personal perspective of Israel by learning about the strategic and social challenges facing Israel today. Mission participants will meet with key decision-makers, government and military officials, diplomats, journalists, students and everyday Israelis –Arab and Jewish — from diverse communities, cultures and backgrounds. Participants will visit sights of historical, religious and contemporary interest. The group will take all necessary security precautions and will avoid potentially dangerous areas. The group will travel by private bus.

Thanks to generous funding from the Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation, there will be no cost to selected participants. This includes travel to/from New York and Israel, accommodation and meals. Please refer to the attached Campus Leadership Mission Overview and Application for more detailed information. Students who have previously visited Israel are not eligible.

To apply for this unique opportunity complete the application form, accompanied by two letters of reference, your resume, and a 500 word essay. You can register online at www.adl.org/campusmission or fax your application to 212-490-0187.

The application deadline is April 15th. If you have any questions, please contact Stacey Popovsky, ADL’s Director of Campus Initiatives, at spopovsky@adl.org or 212-885-7837.

Sincerely,

Stacey Berkowitz Popovsky

Director of Campus and Confronting Anti-Semitism Initiatives

Anti-Defamation League

605 Third Avenue New York, NY 10158

t: 212-885-7837

f: 212-490-0187

spopovsky@adl.org

Reporting and writing on Human Rights- Columbia Rights

Hi Everyone,

The Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR)—
http://hrcolumbia.org/about/— is working on a website called
Columbia Rights, which will be a publication on human rights. It will
cover news and views on human rights- both international and national.

The idea is that it will be an interactive website- with different
sections- news, features, interviews, blogging and several other
components.

Most importantly- it will look at Columbia University’s involvement
in human rights.

The website is a combination of journalism and human rights- so we’re
looking for reporters to cover human rights news in the city and
within the college.

This will include monitoring reporting and writing on human rights
related events in all the Columbia University Schools- SIPA,
Business, Law and Journalism. It will also include interviewing human
rights personalities within the school and those who come and visit.

You can continue to file human rights stories from wherever you go
after graduation. The alumni and faculty are also invited to contribute.

If you’re interested in writing about human rights-please write to me
at betwasharma@gmail.com. I am doing the MA at the Journalism School.

Sincerely,
Betwa

Enhancing Your Relationship:
A Workshop for Couples

Do you already have a strong foundation for your committed relationship, but want to see it get even better? This might be the workshop for you!

This hands-on, sequential 3-session workshop will provide practical tools for couples who wish to strengthen their relationship. Topics include:
- Understanding Relational Expectations and Beliefs
- How to Nurture the Positives in the Relationship
- How to Improve Problem Solving Ability and Communication Skills

When?
Tuesdays: April 14, 21 and 28, 2009
What time?
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Where?
Counseling and Psychological Services
Alfred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor
Conference Room

For: Couples only (one member of couple must be a Columbia student who
has paid the health services fee)

To reserve a spot or for more information, please e-mail:

Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu
or
Dr. Lakeasha Garner at lg2418@columbia.edu

Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at The Center for the Humanities

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two pioneering political and cultural theorists discuss the historic tensions between western secularism

and gender equality. Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California - Berkeley.

Joan Wallach Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Moderated by Anthony Alessandrini,

Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.

Martin E. Segal Theatre

Join two prominent scholars of American civic life for a discussion about the past and continuing influence of

religious thought on American politics. Featuring Randal Balmer, Professor of Religious History at Columbia University,

and Douglas Kmiec, Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University. John Torpey, Professor of Sociology

at the Graduate Center, will moderate.

Co-presented as part of the Great Issues Forum. For more information, please visit www.greatissuesforum.org

What is Faith Today?

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two leading social scientific analysts of global religion discuss the nature of religious faith today and

the prospects for better understanding of the ever-elusive problem of religious faith in modern society. Bryan Turner

is Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney.

Philip Gorski is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Moderated by John Torpey, Professor of Sociology at

The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Elebash Recital Hall

Do we live in a secular age? What does it mean to say that we do? Join Bill Connolly, Professor of Political

Science at Johns Hopkins University, Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the New School University, and

Hent de Vries, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, as they discuss these and other questions.

Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities.

Does the State

The Skylight Room (9100)

Join two legal and political theorists as they examine religious threads running through modern secular

philosophy, political theory, and the state itself. Paul Kahn is Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for

International Human Rights, Yale University. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of

Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow

at the Center for the Humanities.

All events take place at

We have three complimentary tickets to the event below.

We are giving the three tickets out on a first-come basis.

Asia Society and Oxfam America invite you to:

The Global Food Crisis: Time for Another Green Revolution?

Friday, February 20, 2009 — 8:00 - 9:30 AM

In recent years, erratic weather due in part to climate change, fluctuations in energy prices, and increased demand for commodities are all contributing factors to drastic spikes and volatility in food prices. Adding now the impact of the global financial crisis, the number of people around the world considered food insecure has soared to nearly one billion, and counting. Can technological innovation produce another “green revolution” to increase food supply? What role can genetically modified crops play in raising crop yields amidst changing weather patterns and resource scarcity? How can global agriculture production accommodate a growing world population and increasing demand for grain and meat in emerging economies? With agricultural productivity stagnated for decades in Africa and Asia, identifying root causes and finding durable solutions to this ongoing food crisis is imperative, more now than ever before.

Panelists:
Kevin L. Eblen, Vice President, Public Policy and Sustainability Lead, Monsanto
Doug Gurian-Sherman, Senior Scientist, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Dr. Robert Zeigler, Director General, International Rice Research Institute
Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America (Moderator)

Message from Prof. Josh Friedman:

The email below is self-explanatory. I spoke to Liat today and she said they’re right up against a deadline if your’re interested.

JF.

From: liatshetret@gmail.com [mailto:liatshetret@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Liat Shetret

My name is Liat Shetret, a second year SIPA student studying International Security Policy. Professor Judith Matloff suggested I write you about the following opportunity that may be interesting to J-School students.

I have volunteered to organize a trip to Israel over spring break (March 14-23, 2009) and would love to have J-School students on board.
Professor Matloff thought you might be able to spread the word. Here is the trip information:

The trip takes place across Spring Break March 14-23rd with a direct flight to Israel. We will visit Jerusalem (all holy sites), Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Golan Heights and have a number of meetings with political and military officials.
Currently most students signed up are from SIPA, but I thought it would be great to have J-School students on board.
Deposits are due on Feb. 4th (short notice I know…), but the trip cost (all inclusive hotel, meals, flights, taxes etc) is $2,179.

I appreciate your assistance with this.

Sincerely,

Liat Shetret

Dear J-School Students,

President Bollinger holds annual “Fireside Chats” with undergraduate students, providing an informal venue for students to engage with him and ask questions about the university, administration, student life, and other topics.

This spring he is holding the very first “Fireside Chat” for graduate students on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at the President’s House.

Given the limited number of slots for this event, only three students from the Graduate School of Journalism are invited to attend. The three students will be picked at random through a lottery.

For a chance to be one of the lucky three, simply click on the registration link at the bottom and fill out the required information.

The deadline for registration is Monday, February 9 at 7:00am.

Please only submit your name if you are able to attend the event on March 4th from 6-8 pm at President Bollinger’s Residence on the Morningside Campus.

Students will be selected and notified via e-mail by mid-February.

Register for Fireside Chat: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=29339

View Event Details: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&br=default&id=29339

Move with Alice!

It’s 2009! Capture the momentum of a new year and take time to renew your mind, body, and spirit. Plus, as a reward for your effort, you can earn great shirts, water bottles, music gift cards, and more. Beyond these great incentives and countless health benefits, physical activity can help you improve concentration, increase energy levels, and relieve stress.

http://www.health.columbia.edu/docs/services/100mc/index.html (formerly the 100 m.i.l.e. club) is an exercise motivation and tracking program that offers the University community an opportunity to learn about, design, and record personal fitness activities using an online, interactive tool. Participants set individual exercise goals and record progress on their personalized exercise journal. CU Move is free and open to all Columbia students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Progress is measured according to the number of minutes a user spends exercising. The goal is to spend at least 100 minutes per week doing physical activity.

Helpful Resources:

CU Move

Alice! Health Promotion Program

Health Services at Columbia

Dodge Fitness Center

Related Q&As from Go Ask Alice!

Is there a proper workout order routine?

No time for working out.

Is it better to be fit and fat, or unfit and thin?

Move your body in 2009 and reap the rewards! Happy New Year!

Chinese New Year Splendor at Radio City Music Hall
Discount tickets available for Jan 24 and 25
Go to: Lerner Hall West Ramp or call 646-522-5599

Divine Performing Arts presents classical Chinese dance and music in gloriously colorful and exhilarating shows.
An art form some three millennial old, Chinese dance is refreshingly dynamic and expressive.
Ancient legends and heroic figures come to life through its leaps, spins, and delicate gestures.
http://www.divineperformingarts.org/

Deadline to fill in the form: Monday at 9 a.m…

If you fill in the form below, your name will be on the guest list… Tell ‘em you are from Columbia Journalism School.
Quoting… “we’ll hold all badges at the door for pickup - starting at Noon - on Monday, Oct. 13 - lobby of the Time Warner Corp. headquarters, entrance on 58th St. west of 8th ave. - tell the students not to go into the Mall - just the next building down the street.”

You can attend just the parts that fit your sked.

Full program here: http://www.digitalhollywood.com/Politics2008.html

Let us know how it goes: dos[at]jrn.columbia.edu

[REMINDER: These and other events are listed on the J-school Google Calendar:
http://snurl.com/columbiajschool and see our all-class lecture schedule:
http://snurl.com/columbialectures ]

Dear M.S. & M.A. Students:

We are offering two special workshops on doing long-form, narrative projects
that are ideal for anyone doing Master’s Projects or Master’s Theses (in any
medium). We STRONGLY RECOMMEND these for all our students.

These will be taught by Prof. Paula Span, who specializes in teaching this
particular art form [ http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/faculty/span.asp ].

Student feedback from last year’s session: “Professor Span’s workshop last
night was excellent. She’s a great lecturer, laid out a number of clear,
helpful ideas for organizing research and then weaving it into a long-form
piece, and also gave great advice while responding to student questions.”

There are two sets of workshops, each with two identical sessions, so you can
get to one or the other of each workshop. She is offering duplicate sessions so
that each can be smaller than the typical all-class sessions.

Reporting Your Long-form Project

* Wed, Oct. 1, 7-9 pm (identical to Oct 3 session)
room 607B

* Fri, Oct. 3 7-9 pm (identical to Oct 1 session)
World Room

Please select one or the other session and fill in this form:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pWmP6POu-w911eu0cen0Ueg
(we’ll have room for everyone - just want to keep track of the headcount)

Writing Your Long-form Project

* Thurs, Dec. 4, 7-9 pm (identical to the Dec. 10 session)
World Room

* Wed, Dec. 10, 7-9 pm (identical to the Dec. 4 session)
World Room

We will create the signup sheet for the December sessions in November.

If you sign up for these sessions, please be sure to read the two Washington
Post articles that are available here: http://drop.io/span_article

She will be dissecting them in the workshop and explaining how they were put
together. You must read them before the session.

PLEASE NOTE: Dean Lemann will be teaching his two one-hour lectures, “How to
Think About Your Master’s Project” as follows:
PART 1: Tuesday, Nov 18th, 7:30-8:30 pm
PART 2: Tuesday, Dec. 9, 7-8 pm

Dean Lemann’s sessions are mandatory for all full-time M.S. students. Everyone
else is welcome to attend.

- Dean Sreenivasan

The Earth Institute at Columbia University has assembled its 2008-2009 Student Advisory Council with two students from the Journalism School who will assist in developing student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

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Urban Health Journalism Workshop
Presented by the Association of Health Care Journalists
Oct. 17-18

Come get the tools to better investigate, understand and relate the health of your city.
Sessions this year will focus on how urban life affects our health and the health of our readers, viewers and listeners. They will explore the impact of violence on neighborhood health, how the built environment affects public health, trends in urban aging, the real story on emergency rooms, gauging the financial health of city hospitals and more.

Highlights: a field trip to school-based health clinics, ands-on CAR training, a New York Times reception, included meals and a variety of
panel sessions.

Columbia University journalism students are eligible for discounted registration and association membership:
$25 membership (regularly $30)
$10 workshop registration (regularly $30)

Check out the planned sessions at http://www.healthjournalism.org/calendar-details.php?id=137&EventType=1&EventSubType=2&Topic=calendar
[www.healthjournalism.org].

Complete a registration form. Insert the prices mentioned above. Mark “Columbia University student” as your affiliation. Fax in the form.

Register today. Space is limited.

Len Bruzzese
Executive Director
Association of Health Care Journalists
Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
573-884-5606
bruzzesel[at]missouri.edu
www.healthjournalism.org

Dear Students,

I realize it may feel as though you’ve just gotten here, but some of you
have already expressed preliminary interest in our dual-degree program
with the School of Journalism at Sciences Po in Paris.

This note is to inform you that Stephanie Durand and Agnes Cheveau, who
administer that school, will be here next Tuesday, September 16 and are
prepared to meet with interested students at 4:00 in the Stabile Center.
This will be a general-information session; we do not expect you or
Sciences Po to make any commitments at this early date.

Please let me know if you plan to attend.

Regards,

DK

David A. Klatell
Chairman, International Studies
Professor of Professional Practice
Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University
New York, NY. 10027
ph: 212-854-3319
fax: 212-854-3939

The Arts Initiative at Columbia University
www.cuarts.columbia.edu
Discover the arts. Discover New York

The Arts Initiative and all its programs are here to make the arts and the culture a part of your educational experience here at Columbia. Whether you’re an artist, a performer, an audience member or an occasional onlooker, the Arts Initiative is your portal to the arts on and off campus. From discounted Broadway tickets to a list of all arts-related student organizations - graduate and undergraduate - to a centralized calendar of most major campus events, you can find your 24/7 campus culture connection here. These programs include:

* CU Arts, the website and portal to Arts @ Columbia, all Arts Initiative programs and many other on and off campus arts resources.
* Arts Initiative Weekly E-newsletter, the best way to stay on top of arts and culture on and off campus
* The Ticket and Information Center (The TIC), a centralized box office for on and off campus events including discounted movie vouchers ($6.50 - $8.50) for faculty, staff and students.
* The Gatsby Charitable Fund, a fund for individual students and student organizations who produce arts-related campus events and projects.
* The Passport to New York, free museum entry with student CUID to over 30 major cultural institutions in New York City
* Columbia Alumni Arts League (CAAL), an alumni program whereby members join for $25 and enjoy discounts and special benefits to over 50 cultural NYC organizations as well as connect with fellow alumni at CAAL Events.

We would not exist without your questions, IDEAS and comments! Please send them to cuarts[at]columbia.edu. Thank you and have a great fall.

www.cuarts.columbia.edu
www.tic.columbia.edu

Best,

Chad Miller
Events and Outreach Coordinator

—
Events and Outreach Coordinator
Arts Initiative at Columbia University
212.851.1875
www.cuarts.columbia.edu
www.tic.columbia.edu
facebook group: cuarts

Graduate and undergraduate students, studying at American colleges and universities, who aspire to become foreign correspondents, are invited to apply for one of twelve $2,000 scholarships to be awarded by the Overseas Press Club Foundation.

Winning an OPC Foundation scholarship is more than a cash award. Winners are invited to join the Overseas Press Club family. They are encouraged to network and keep the organization informed of their career moves. From among the scholarship winners, the Foundation also selects up to six scholars and pays travel and living expenses for them to intern at foreign bureaus at such leading news organization as the Associated Press and Reuters and foreign English-language media like Cambodia Daily and the South China Morning Post. In many cases, winning a prestigious OPC Foundation award has helped launch careers.

The judges require that applicants submit a Cover Letter, Resume and Essay. The applicant’s name and school should appear at the top of each page. The Essay of approximately 500 words should concentrate on an area of the world or an international issue that is in keeping with the applicant’s interest. It can be in the form of a story, news analysis or essay. Recent winners have written on such diverse topics as playing black jack on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, political activism in Morocco, and social upheaval in China. Applicants are also encouraged to submit essays showing a strong understanding of, or interest in, global economic issues such as trade, finance, emerging markets, immigration or environmental impacts.

The Cover Letter should be autobiographical in nature addressing such questions as how the applicant developed an interest in this particular part of the world, or how he or she would use the scholarship to further journalistic ambitions. The judges respond well to applications showing strong reporting skills, color, and understanding or passion.

Winners will be contacted in December so that arrangements can be made for them to attend the Foundation Scholarship Luncheon in February 2009 in New York City at the Foundation’s expense. Recipients are expected to attend.

Applicants do not have to be US citizens.
Applications may be sent by mail, fax or email. Please choose one. Email is preferred (Word or PDF).

DEADLINE: Monday, December 1, 2008
Email: foundation[at]opcofamerica.org
Fax: 201-612-9915
Mail: William J. Holstein, President, Overseas Press Club Foundation, 40 West 45 Street, New York NY 10036
Website: www.overseaspressclubfoundation.org

For more information, contact Jane Reilly, Executive Director, at foundation[at]opcofamerica.org or call 201-493-9087.

The Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize launches today, endowed by Benjamin Franklin House Chairman John Studzinski, leading banker and philanthropist. According to Studzinski, “Benjamin Franklin is one of history’s great figures. While he made lasting contributions in many fields, his first passion was writing. He believed in the power of the written word to inform and stimulate debate as the bedrock of a democratic society.”

Each year a question exploring Franklin’s relevance in our time will be open for interpretation in 1000-1500 words by two groups: young people and professional writers. The winner of the Young Writers Prize will receive £500 while the winner of the Professional Writers Prize will receive £1000 plus publication in a leading British newspaper. Entries for 2008 must be received before 15 October. Judges of the young people’s award will include professional writers; judges of the professional writers’ award will include young people. Winning submissions will be posted at www.BenjaminFranklinHouse.org.

For nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Franklin lived at 36 Craven Street in the heart of London, England. He is one of history’s great polymaths - a diplomat, patriot, scientist, inventor, philosopher and more. He was one of the first American journalists, writing prolifically not only on politics and foreign affairs, but on science, the arts and humanity. In 2006 his Georgian home opened to the public for the first time as a dynamic museum and educational facility. See www.BenjaminFranklinHouse.org.

2008 Theme

What is ethical journalism? Benjamin Franklin said the effects of the written word (delivered by press in his day - in ours by a variety of media) “are more extensive, more lasting.” What are journalists’ responsibilities and why?

Submissions

* Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize - Young Writers Award: Entrants must be 25 or under.

* Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize - Professional Writers Award: Entrants must be professional writers

Entries of 1000-1500 words must be sent by 15 October to info[at]benjaminfranklinhouse.org. Each entrant is asked to provide their name, address, and telephone number. In addition, entrants for the Young Writers Award should provide their age and place of study, if applicable, while entrants for the Professional Writers Award should provide a CV. Entries can be articles or essays published over the preceding year. For more information contact Alice Kershaw at Benjamin Franklin House, 020 7839 2006 or email info[at]BenjaminFranklinHouseorg.

Dear Students:

The New York Times is offering home or campus delivery of their newspaper to students at a steep discount.
If you are interested, click on the link below.

http://snurl.com/3i2ok

All you have to do is create an account, select your delivery option, the subscription that best suits your needs, and enter your payment method.

Hope you all take advantage of this generous offer.

TO: Graduating Journalism Students
FROM: Dennis F. Giza, Deputy Publisher

RE: Free One-year Subscription to CJR

DATE: May 13, 2008

Throughout the past year, you have received copies of CJR in your student mailbox. I hope you found each issue interesting, informative and useful.

On behalf of the entire staff of CJR, I would like to offer you a FREE one-year subscription to our magazine.

To accept, please e-mail me your address (referring to this offer) to dfg2 [at] columbia.edu. I recommend, based on past experience, you provide us a temporary or interim address rather than wait until your plans for the coming year are finalized. If, in the next year, you experience problems with your subscription, or change your address, please call 1-888-425-7782 or log on to our site at www.cjr.org and click on “Subscriptions” in the right-hand column.

The one-year subscription will begin with the July/August ’08 issue and end with the May/June ’09. If you take advantage of this offer later than May (and miss some issues) your subscription will still expire with the May/June ’09 issue. Around January next year you will receive a letter saying your subscription is about to expire and asking that you become a paid subscriber; we hope that you opt to do so.

Congratulations and good luck.

Message from LynNell Hancock, Interim Dean of Academic Affairs

Dear Students and Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce three major additions to our new media
efforts at the Journalism School.

The first is the appointment of one our most popular adjuncts, Duy
Linh Tu, to the full-time faculty. Duy (pronounced “Do” - see bio
below) joins us as new media coordinator and an assistant professor of
professional practice. As you know, he has been teaching here for
several years in the new media classrooms. He will intensify his
efforts to “webbify” our fall classes, and to integrate new and
compelling ideas in multimedia storytelling throughout the curriculum
in the years to come. Duy will continue to work with Dean Sree
Sreenivasan, who, as you know, has increased administrative
responsibilities at the school.

In addition, we have created two new post-graduate New Media
Fellowships starting this year. These July-June fellowships will
employ two students who will work closely with the technology staff to
help students and professors alike navigate the world of new media
journalism.

Our inaugural fellows are Kenan Davis and Dave Mayers (see bios
below). Part-teaching assistants, part-technologists, this year’s
fellows are both smart journalists with terrific reporting, writing,
editing and production skills. They will report to Duy.

Please join me in congratulating them. Kenan and Dave officially begin
their duties on July 1, but I am sure you will have other
opportunities to greet them before then.

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Attention Students:

Prof. Joe Cutbirth is looking for a half-dozen or so volunteers to work and hang out at Headlines & Headliners, the 13th annual New York benefit for the National Lesbian-Gay Journalist Association.

The event will be emceed by Today Show co-host Meredith Vieira and hosted by Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times. It is set for 6-10 p.m.

March 12 at The Times Center, 242 West 41st St.

A big part of the evening is presentation of thousands of dollars in college scholarships from the NLGJA student project to high school students and undergraduates interested in journalism careers.

As appearances by and support from Matt Lauer, Geraldo Rivera, Jeanne Moos and others on the event committee shows (at least Cutbirth thinks) you don’t have to be gay to be part of this star-studded, professional evening.

For more info, go to: http://www.nlgja.org/newyork.htm. E-mail questions and replies to Prof. Cutbirth at jhc2003 at columbia.edu.

Dear Students:

We are writing to inform you of a new way to receive writing coaching at the
Journalism School. Currently, the only way a student can get writing
coaching outside a class setting is if a professor refers the student to the
Dean of Students office for remedial coaching. We will continue to offer
that service on a limited basis.

But there was there was no mechanism for a student who just wanted a way to
improve his or her work, or just wanted to bounce ideas off someone else, to
get help from our coaches.

That chanes with what we are calling “Writing Coach Wednesdays.” On an
experimental basis, on Wednesday, March 5, and on Wednesday, March 12, a
writing coach will be available from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in a classroom here.
Students can sign up for a 15- or 30-minute block of time during that
period. These are off-the-record, one-on-one sessions with no records kept.
Students can bring a piece of writing (anything goes: a sentence, a para, a
page, or more) and have the coach work on it with them and offer
constructive feedback. The students can use the sessions for any class work
(or for relevant freelance work).

Some things to keep in mind:
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Work Block Group Available

Location: Counseling and Psychological Services: Lerner Hall 8th Floor

Day and Time: Monday 1-3PM

For 6 sessions: February 25, March 3,10,24, 31 and April 7

To register or for more information contact Dr. William Sommer at 212 854
2878 or email wgs2@columbia.edu

FROM: The New York Coalition for Professional Women in Arts and Media

Call for entries for the 2008 Collaboration Award

The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media (NYCWAM) will present the second biennial Collaboration Award recognizing Women Working with Women.

The $1000 award aims to encourage professional women in the arts and media to work collaboratively with other women on the creation of new works. Eligible teams are those who have completed a work, are readying a new work, or are continuing a work in progress.

Applicants may suggest any form of creative collaboration. Submissions will be judged on the basis of artistic excellence and clarity of the proposal, with special attention given to those proposals involving more than one discipline and which reflect the goals of the Coalition: to advance women and women’s issues. The team that has been selected, plus two runners up, will be invited to present a portion of their work at an awards ceremony in New York in October 2008. Women outside of New York may send a designee to present their project. NYCWAM does not pay for travel expenses.

Teams of two or more women working together on a creative project may apply for a Collaboration Award. Applicants must be members in good standing of an organization with full membership in NYCWAM. Those organizations are: Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Dramatists Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women, New York Women in Film & Television, Screen Actors Guild, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and Writers Guild of America, East.

Funding for the 2008 Collaboration Award has been provided by playwright, Elsa Rael, and by Back Stage editor, Sherry Eaker. The first Collaboration Award was presented in 2006 to playwright Jennifer Maisel and director Wendy McClellan for their play BIRDS.

Applications may be downloaded from the NYCWAM website: www.nycwam.org

or by mail by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:

The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media

P.O. Box 2537
Times Square Station
New York, NY 10108
Completed Applications must be postmarked by May 1, 2008.

For further information after reviewing guidelines and application contact:
Deborah Savadge
Phone: 212-592-4511 or 212-595-2582
E-Mail: Collaboration@NYCWAM.org

As you know, each graduating student receives four tix for the CU commencement Wednesday morning and four tix for the J-school Graduation Wednesday afternoon. The students themselves do not need tickets, so they can bring up to four guests for each ceremony. These are two kinds of tickets for the morning and the afternoon.

Each year, we set up a paper-based ticket swap system. This year, we are doing a web-based ticket swap. If you have tickets to offer or need extra tickets, just post below. If you want to get or give tickets, as appropriate, please contact the relevant folks below.

TO SEE ALL THE TICKET REQUESTS & OFFERS: Just scroll down to the comments section (no registration required).

TO POST A REQUEST OR AN OFFER: 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.
1. 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.
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).

Include information about the number of tickets and which set of events and include e-mail, cell and other contact information. And, of course, put your full name into comments field, so people will know who you are. [NOTE: Several of you have posted WITHOUT your full name! We have updated the names we know. Please use your full name!]

Once you have posted your listing as a comment, the DOS office has to approve it, which might take a few minutes or a few hours. We will work to approve these as fast as we can. Please be patient. Once approved, the listing will show up in the comments section.

Questions to dos@jrn.columbia.edu

MySpace.com is teaming up with The New York Times for its second annual “Win A Trip With Nick” African reporting competition, offering one college or graduate student as well one middle- or high-school teacher the opportunity to accompany Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nick Kristof on an expedition to Africa. MySpace is creating a customized community - http://www.myspace.com/winatrip - to engage users in the contest and offer video from the expedition, raising awareness about the challenges facing strife-ridden African nations.

“Traveling through Asia and Africa when I was in college was a turning point in my life,” said New York Times’ op-ed columnist and award winning journalist, Nick Kristof. “My hope is that the student and teacher who join me this summer will be similarly affected and will share their discoveries about Africa and its people with their peers and their students.”

“MySpace’s community is extremely passionate about social issues on a local and global level,” said Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace. “MySpace users want more opportunities to make a positive impact on the world and we’re empowering them to do just that. MySpace is proud to be a part of Mr. Kristof’s extraordinary reporting project in Africa.”

Beginning this week, students and teachers are invited to submit essays explaining their reasons for wanting to go to Africa and articulating what makes them ideally suited for such an experience. Any student 18 or older who is attending an American college, university, or graduate school, and any teacher currently working in a middle or high school in the United States, is eligible. Essays must be limited to 700 words and must be received along with application forms by April 6. Information about the competition is available at http://www.myspace.com/winatrip and http://www.nytimes.com/winatrip.

The two winners will be chosen by Kristof and announced in late April. The trip, which will last one to two weeks, is planned for the latter part of June. Video and other content from the trip will be available on both MySpace and The New York Times’ website.

Due in part to the volatile politics in the region, the schedule for the trip is still being formed, but likely countries for Kristof and his traveling companions to visit include Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo. Award-winning multi-media producer Naka Nathaniel, who traveled with Mr. Kristof last year to produce video segments, will again take part in the trip and help the other participants create presentations to be filed by satellite phone.

Also beginning on March 13, subscriptions to TimesSelect will be available for free to all registered college students and faculty with a .edu in their e-mail addresses. TimesSelect is NYTimes.com’s paid offering, providing exclusive access to 22 columnists of The Times and the International Herald Tribune as well as an array of other services, including access to The Times’s archives, advance previews of various sections and tools for tracking and storing news and information. Current student subscribers will receive pro-rated refunds for their previously paid subscriptions. College students interested in registering for free TimesSelect subscriptions should go to http://www.nytimes.com/university for more information.