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For the first time, the annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism at Tufts
University will be broadcast live on the web and available to an audience beyond the Tufts
campus. Chief international correspondent for CNN and global affairs anchor of ABC News Christiane
Amanpour will be the featured speaker, discussing current world issues and changes in how
people receive their news in a live interview with Tufts alum and Co-CEO of Loews
Corporation Jonathan Tisch.

This is the third in a series of live webcasts by Made in Medford, following the appearance of His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet at Medford’s Kurukulla Center and the playing of the 125th annual Medford-Malden High School Thanksgiving Day football game. Made in Medford is dedicated to exploring new and innovative ways that local programming – including public, educational and government media – can be made available in a community. The Made in Medford website, MadeinMedford.com, and video-on-demand component are
designed to connect residents and visitors with what’s going on around Medford and show them where to find additional content and events.

WHEN: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 12 p.m.

WHERE: MadeinMedford.com

OTHER: For more information on the Edward R. Murrow Forum, go to madeinmedford.com/tuftscommunity

Contact: David Lubell, Online Community Coordinator, Made in Medford
617-794-7274 or david@madeinmedford.com

Columbia Journalism Students are invited to attend a cocktail reception to announce the winner of The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in the Sue and Edgar Wachersheim III Trustee Room at The New York Public Library.

The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence honors journalists whose work has played an important role in drawing public attention to current issues, events, or policies. The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence was established in 1987 through a gift from Joseph Frank Bernstein in honor of journalist Helen Bernstein (now Helen Bernstein Fealy).

The 2013 finalists are Katherine Boo (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity), Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan), David Quammen (Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic), David E. Sanger (Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of Power), and Tom Wilbur (Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale).

To RSVP, email bernsteinawards@nypl.org by May 8, 2013.

Independent publisher Melville House and interactive platform Shindig are hosting a weekly series on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. ET with prize-winning investigative reporter, Edward Jay Epstein. The series begins Tuesday, April 16, with a discussion of the Lincoln Assassination kicking off a six-part series where Epstein will discuss unsolved crimes, each discussion highlighting topics of his recent book, The Annals of Unsolved Crime. Discussion topics include The Lincoln Assassination, The Mysteries of the Vatican, The Amanda Knox Ordeal, The Case of the Radioactive Corpse, Bringing Down DSK, and The Lindbergh Kidnapping.

The events are free and open to the public on Shindig.com. Anyone can participate online and the audience will be able to ask Epstein questions about the conspiracies through text and video chat. The full schedule and RSVP links are online at: http://www.mhpbooks.com/unsolvedcrime.

The Simons Foundation is hosting “Climate Projections over North America in the Coming Decades” featuring Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research on Wednesday, May 8 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Simons Foundation (160 Fifth Avenue, New York).

Please join us for a free lecture for the graduate level and above academic community on the Science of Climate. Due to limited seating, tickets are required and will be available online on a first come, first served basis through Eventbrite. To register, please click here or go to . lectures@simonsfoundation.org.

The Science of Climate series schedule is available here.

Abstract: Earth’s climate trajectory over the next few decades will be influenced both by human-induced climate change and by internally generated variability in the climate system. This lecture highlights the substantial contribution of internal variability to projected climate trends over North America in the next 50 years.

About the Speaker: Clara Deser, Ph.D. is the head of the Climate Analysis Section within the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at NCAR. Her research interests include diagnostic analysis of observed climate variability in the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice system, as well as future climate change. She is also a co-chair of the CESM Climate Variability and Change Working Group.

Schedule:
Tea - 4 p.m.
Lecture - 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Q & A - 5:30 p.m.

Location:
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium
Simons Foundation
160 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
(Entrance on 21st Street)
New York, NY 10010

The Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium offers accessible seating to patrons with special access needs. Please fill out the special accommodations request when ordering your ticket online.

Upcoming events:

April 17
Simons Science Series
Charles Zuker, Columbia University
Receptors, Neurons, and Circuits: The Biology of Mammalian Taste

April 24
The Science of Climate
Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Water: Climate’s Great Orchestrator

April 25
Autism: Emerging Concepts
Matthew State, UCSF
New Genetic Insights into the Pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Two young Americans are heading to India to write a book on chai wallahs and would like to meet with experts on various India themes before they head out in August. If you can help, please get in touch directly and copy Sree Sreenivasan (ss221[at]columbia.edu) know they got some leads).

Zach Marks zach.marks@gmail.com
Resham Gellatly resham.gellatly@gmail.com

Zach and Resham lived in India from 2010-2011 on a Fulbright Fellowship. They are returning to write a book on chai wallahs around India. In a country with tremendous diversity, chai wallahs are a constant presence, from urban slums to rural villages to the call centers and factories driving India’s economic rise. The same way New York City cab drivers might be able to tell the story of the city through their interactions with customers, chai wallahs can tell the story of India in all its diversity and complexity.

They will be traveling around India for a year beginning in August. While they are still here, they are hoping to meet people who have studied and/or written on South Asia in the following fields:

• Sociology
• Anthropology
• Cultural / Diaspora Studies
• Economics
• Political Science
• Food
• History
• Others with connections to South Asia!

Zach graduated from Yale University in 2010. Since returning from his Fulbright, he has worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co., where he has focused on international development and social entrepreneurship. Most recently he has been working in South Sudan, helping develop the world’s newest nation’s agriculture strategy. He helped write a McKinsey report on social impact bonds, an innovative finance mechanism for scaling social programs. He has written for the Huffington Post and was featured in The New York Times for his culinary creations in college dining halls.

Resham graduated from Boston University in 2010. Since returning from her Fulbright, she has been conducting psychiatry research at New York University and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Resham worked with survivors of torture seeking asylum through a joint Bellevue/NYU program and currently mentors high school refugees at the International Rescue Committee. She recently co-authored a paper on cultural comparisons of mental health in Argentina and New York. Her fiction and non-fiction pieces, including one about Hawaiian food culture, have been published in her hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Zeitgeist Films presents Hannah Arendt, a German film that will open at the Film Forum in New York on May 29. It was directed by the renowned Margarethe von Trotta and stars the great actress Barbara Sukowa. The film has received rave reviews in Germany and has done very well in the U.S. at various film festivals. It’s the product of years of careful research in consultation with experts and scholars. It’s also a very controversial topic. Many people were outraged when her articles about the Eichmann trial appeared in The New Yorker. The film takes place during that time, and William Shawn and the magazine play big roles.

Watch the Trailer here.

The Number 1/1 Train EXPRESS from 96TH TO 145TH Street, MAKING NO LOCAL STOPS.

You will need to go all the way to 145th Street, exit the station and cross the street, then re-enter the subway station at 145th street to take a Downtown 1 Train which IS making local stops from 145th Street to 14th Street OR hike up from 96TH Street.

Expect delays and allow extra time!

Columbia Venture Community (CVC), the largest Columbia-based entrepreneurship community, is hosting the CVC Spring Fling, its largest event to date on Wednesday, April 17 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Columbia Club (15 W 43rd Street - 4th Floor).

The group will be celebrating the (hopeful, real) arrival of spring, mingling with fellow CVC’ers and announcing the winners of the first annual CVC Roars. There’s an outdoor terrace to soak in spring. There will be complimentary light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. For more details and to RSVP, please visit http://www.meetup.com/ColumbiaVC/events/110931492/.

For a full list of upcoming CVC events, please take a look at CVC’s new website: http://www.columbiaventurecommunity.com/events.php

Interested in entrepreneurship? You don´t have to go it alone.

Join the Columbia Venture Community (CVC), the largest Columbia-based entrepreneurship community (>2,000 members). There are no membership fees, but it´s only open to folks affiliated with Columbia.

CVC is a community for Columbia students, alumni and employees interested in all aspects of entrepreneurship. We welcome members from all of the Columbia schools and from every sector and industry function. Members meet every few weeks to participate in an array of events, including idea incubation, demo events, educational panel and speaker events and happy hours.

Here´s a link to our newly launched website: http://www.columbiaventurecommunity.com/.

Behind the Book is a nonprofit organization based in Harlem. They bring authors into the classrooms of New York City Public Schools. They are seeking volunteers for to assist students as “writing mentors” at a local high school. You can sign up for the day or for just one class. Here are the details:

Investigative Journalism Program with Patty McCormick, author of Purple Heart and Ray Rivera, NYT journalist for the 11th grade
School: Community Health Academy of the Heights (CHAH)
Address: 504 West 158th Street, Manhattan
Program Description: The 11th grade students are studying the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their final project will be writing a non-fiction narrative about how foreign wars affect life at home. They have sessions with the author of Purple Heart, Patty McCormick, and NYT journalist Ray Rivera. As part of the research for their articles, students spoke to a war vet and a gold star mom. More details in the blog posts below. Students are meeting Ray on March 18.
Patty workshop
Interview workshop
Date and times: April 10th: 9:45 a.m.-11 a.m.; 10:45 a.m.-12 p.m.; 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
For more details and to sign up, email lynn@behindthebook.org

Behind The Book’s mission is to motivate young people to become engaged readers by connecting them to contemporary writers and illustrators. We bring authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and create a community of life-long readers and writers. Our programs take place in high-need K-12 public schools, are part of the class curricula and meet the Common Core Standards.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University presents a documentary screening, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency: Breaking the Cycle of Violence with panelists Kira Kay, Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour and Executive Director of the Bureau for International Reporting and Duncan McCargo, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Professor of Southeast Asian Politics, University of Leeds on Wednesday, March 13 at 6 p.m. The talk will be moderated by Sheila Coronel, Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism & Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism

Thailand’s Southern Insurgency: Breaking the Cycle of Violence is a documentary by the Bureau for International Reporting on the conflict in Southern Thailand. More than 5,000 people, mostly civilians of both Muslim and Buddhist faiths, have been killed by the separatist insurgency.

Thailand’s Southern Insurgency: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 – 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
International Affairs Building, Room 918, Columbia University Morningside Campus

The free screening and Q&A is co-sponsored by the South East Asian League, Asia Pacific Affairs Council, and the Southeast Asian Student Initiative. No registration required.

Just a little reminder TO SET YOUR CLOCK AHEAD.

Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 a.m. this Sunday, March 10, 2013 and reverts to standard time on Sunday November 3, 2013.

This is also a good time to test and change the batteries in your home smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

The Office of Alumni & Development, in collaboration with the Career Services Office, is pleased to announce that it has arranged a visit to The New York Times led by Rick Berke ‘81, assistant managing editor, on March 12.

The group size is limited to 40. Signing up is a commitment to attend, and you will receive a confirmation email if you made the list. If you fail to attend, you will not be permitted to sign up for future newsroom visits.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
The office is located at 620 8th Avenue (between 40th and 41st Streets)
Please be in the lobby by 5:20 p.m. to check in with security.

Sign up via the following link:
https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COU/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=147421

The Alumni & Development office has organized (Bloomberg, CNN, The New York Times) with the cooperation of alumni who have generously volunteered their time to provide a tour and answer any questions. The schedule is dictated by the availability of the alumnus/a in question, and if a newsroom visit conflicts with class, we hope there will be other visits that may accommodate your class schedule. Coming up next is Huffington Post and ABC News.

We appreciate your interest in these newsroom visits. And, as always, we are very grateful to the alumni who support their alma mater and volunteer their time to do this, despite news deadlines and their demanding schedules.

Live from New York City, it’s the Midwinter Media Mixer from Times Square, co-hosted by The Deadline Club and SAJA. This promises to be a great event. RSVP at this link: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5459912746

• What: A Media Mixer with The Deadline Club and SAJA
• When: Wednesday, Feb. 27, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
• Where: Third floor party room at Playwright Tavern at 202 West 49th Street in Times Square

The Office of Alumni & Development, in collaboration with the Career Services Office, is pleased to announce that it has arranged a visit to CNN, led by Rob Frehse ‘00, assignment manager for CNN, on Thursday, Feb. 28. Signups will go live on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 12 noon ET and will be announced via the class listserv and on Facebook.

The group size is limited to 15. Signing up is a commitment to attend. If you fail to attend, you will not be permitted to sign up for future newsroom visits.

• Thursday, Feb 28
• 5:30 p.m.
• (45-minute tour)

The office is located on 58th Street between 8th and 9th. It’s on the north side of the street – a big glass entrance with a “Time Warner” sign. Please be in the Lobby by 5:20 p.m. to check in with security.

The Graduate Center of City University of New York presents The Future of Longform Journalism on March 4 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, Room 1201, Elebash Recital Hall).

The free event explores: what is the state of longform journalism? Are we living in its pixelated end times, or have new technologies resurrected narrative nonfiction? Join leading journalists and editors as they discuss the future of reporting and writing in the age of 140-character attention spans. Featuring David Grann, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon; Max Linsky, co-founder of Longform.org; Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet; Evan Ratliff, co-founder and editor of The Atavist; and David Samuels, contributor to The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and other publications.

The event is co-sponsored by GC Public Programs, the Writers’ Institute, and the GC Advocate. For more information, call 212-817-7132.

The NYS Office for New Americans (ONA) is offering graduate journalism students an opportunity to learn how to conduct an effective interview with individuals of different cultures and limited English proficiency while giving a voice to immigrants in the community.

The NYS Office for New Americans is looking for articles about foreign immigration to New York State written by graduate journalism students. The NYS Office for New Americans is also interested in stories that discuss the work at ONA Opportunity Centers to publish on its website.

For more information, contact Marwa Elbially, Esq. at the NYS Office for New Americans at: newamericans@dos.ny.gov.

From: Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association - Local 831 IBT

D.A. and Union Remind Public That Sanitation Worker Assault Law Goes Into Effect This Weekend

Joined by workers who have been assaulted on the job, Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes and sanitation union President Harry Nespoli will hold a press conference
10:15 A.M., Friday, September 14, In Front of City Hall
to remind the public that the law signed by Gov. Cuomo making an assault on a NYC sanitation worker a felony will go into effect on Sunday.
They will also be joined by state legislators who sponsored the law in response to the growing number of assaults on sanitation workers , which doubled in 2011 as compared to the year earlier. City sanitation workers will now have the same protection given to city firefighters and other uniformed forces. Under the new law, a person convicted of assaulting a sanitation worker on the job faces up to seven years in jail.

You have been invited to the 20th Annual New York Press Club Foundation Conference on Journalism 2012

Saturday, Sept. 29, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

At New York University’s Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place)

Keynote speaker Joan Walsh, Salon.com & MSNBC
Plenary discussion: “Is This Any Way to Cover an Election?”

Sessions include:
Investigative Reporting, Personal Branding, Taming the Information Overload
Covering NYC Sports in the Social Media Age, NYC’s “Big Soda” wars
& “Flacks vs. Hacks,” a discussion on relationships between journalists & PR pros

Student special:
Reel, Resumé & Website Review: How To Best Present Your Work To Hiring Managers

Featuring panelists from: The Associated Press, Columbia Journalism Review, ProPublica, The New York Times,
Newsday, Fox News, WNYC/ ItsAFreeCountry.org, Thomson Reuters, BreakingNews.com, LinkedIN,
The 4th Estate Project, The New York Post, Fox News, Brand Talk, 360Degrees PR, MSG Network,
WABC-TV, 1010WINS, “On the Black” video blog, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Stevens Media Consulting, Stony Brook University and more.

Student Pricing: $10 for members; $20 non-members

Register at: newyorkpressclub.org

Two J-School students are eligible to serve on the Earth Institute Student Advisory Council whose role is to develop student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

You will serve for one academic year and will receive a $500 stipend.

Members of the Council will assist in the development of events including: panels, seminars, exhibits, and media screenings. Members will help to foster relations between student groups, departments, and schools on campus. They will also advise and assist in the development of professional resources that will help students gain experience in the field.

If you are interested in joining the council, please complete the application form at http://fs8.formsite.com/cjdos/earthinstitute/

DEADLINE: Monday, September 17, 10 a.m.

Melanie Huff
Assistant Dean of Students

The award-winning documentary film SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL is coming to New York’s Stranger Than Fiction series. The film tells the story of the water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and chronicles the efforts of Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger to bring the situation to light.

The film is showing on Wednesday, December 14 at 8pm at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue @ 3rd St.)

Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger and director Rachel Libert will be at the screening and participating in the post film discussion.

For more information or to purchase tickets, go to:

http://stfdocs.com/films/semper_fi_always_faithful/

For more information about the film go to:

www.semperfialwaysfaithful.com

Mark your calendar for an expert panel tackling the very current issue of citizen journalism. Here are the details:

Panel: Citizen Journalism, December 1, 2011

As police arrested credentialed journalists trying to cover sweeps against Occupy Wall Street protestors, “citizen journalists” stepped in to fill the gap, posting their accounts on websites like Storify. From covering OWS to Hurricane Irene to an impromptu striptease on the L train, “citizen journalists” are documenting their everyday experiences. But is it journalism? If not, what is it? Join us for a lively discussion with Anjali Mullany, social media manager at the New York Daily News; Mayhill Fowler, author of Notes From a Clueless Journalist; and Paolo Mastrangelo, curator of NYC the Blog. Moderated by Latrice Davis, chairwoman of the club’s social media and newsroom technology committee.

When: December 1, 2011, 7-9 p.m.

Where: The NYC Seminar and Conference Center, 71 West 23rd St., btw 5th & 6th

How much: $5 members; $15 nonmembers; $10 students

RSVP: to reserve a spot, please visit www.newswomensclubnewyork.com/panels

Panelists:

— Paolo Mastrangelo is the founder and curator of NYC The Blog, which attracted 50,000 monthly page views at its peak. Its original content was frequently cited by major media outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Gawker, The Huffington Post, The London Telegraph, and numerous TV outlets. Currently on hiatus from blogging, he remains active on Twitter, where he reports on daily life in the city. Prior to creating NYC The Blog, Mastrangelo co-hosted a weekly radio show on community affairs in Northampton, Mass., where he also wrote a monthly column on politics, arts, and current affairs for a local alternative newspaper. Also, he’s since launched the @Newyorkist Twitter account.

— Mayhill Fowler is a freelance journalist whose previous career was being a stay-at-home mother to two now-adult daughters. She is the author of Notes From a Clueless Journalist: Media, Bias, and the Great Election of 2008, which detailed her experience covering the aforementioned presidential campaign for the Huffington Post. Fowler, who holds degrees from Vassar College and the University of California at Berkeley, served as a Knight Journalism Fellow at the University of Maryland.

— Anjali Mullany is the social media editor at the New York Daily News. She received her master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

— Latrice Davis is a freelance multimedia journalist and had been an online editor at the Associated Press from 2000 to 2007. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication from New York University.

You are cordially invited to attend….

The Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture - “Religion and the Media”

When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 @ 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) - 3080 Broadway at 122nd Street, New York City

Panelist:

Juju Chang, Emmy Award–winning Correspondent for ABC News’s Nightline
Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, Senior Religion Editor, The Huffington Post
Brent Staples, Editorial Board Member, The New York Times

Moderator
Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Admission is free, but reservations are required.
RSVP online at www.jtsa.edu/religion or call (212) 280-6093.

Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to allow sufficient time for registration, and have photo ID available.
Cosponsored by the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies of JTS.

About the Program

Religion increasingly affects world events. But do the media (print, television, online) truly understand each of the religions they cover? Is current religion coverage adequate to the task? Are there better ways for the media to address religion and religious issues? Hear and engage with a panel of media luminaries from The New York Times, ABC News, and The Huffington Post. The Dean of Columbia Journalism School will moderate.

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) Next Talks

Featuring: Brandon Holley, Editor-in-chief, Lucky

When: Tuesday, November 15th, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Where: The Professor’s Loft - 219 Second Ave, NYC

ASME Next Talks are a series of open bar nights for those interested in advancing their careers, learning more about magazines from industry leaders or just meeting new people. It is open to junior-level magazine and web editors, journalists and anyone interested in learning more about the magazine industry.

Please register for the event here: http://www.magazine.org/asme/asme_next/Talks.aspx.
Admission for ASME Next members is $10; admission for non-members is $20.
Payment can be made at the door, but space is not guaranteed. To secure your spot at the event,
please register.

Dear J-Schoolers,

You have been invited to a panel hosted by the Newswomen Club of New York: Citizen Journalism.

From covering Hurricane Irene to an impromptu striptease on the L train, “citizen journalists” are documenting their everyday experiences. But is it journalism? If not, what is it? Join the Newswomen’s Club of New York for a lively discussion with Anjali Mullany, social media manager at the New York Daily News, Paolo Mastrangelo, curator of NYC the Blog, and freelance journalist Mayhill Fowler. Moderated by Latrice Davis, chairwoman of the club’s social media and newsroom technology committee.

When: December 1, 2011, 7-9 p.m.

Where: The NYC Seminar and Conference Center, 71 West 23rd St., btw 5th & 6th

How much: $5 club members; $15 nonmembers; $10 students

RSVP: visit www.newswomensclubnewyork.com/panels

— Paolo Mastrangelo is the founder and curator of NYC The Blog, which attracted 50,000 weekly page views at its peak. Its original content was frequently cited by major media outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Gawker, The Huffington Post, The London Telegraph, and numerous TV outlets. Currently on hiatus from blogging, he remains active on Twitter, where he reports on daily life in the city. Prior to creating NYC The Blog, Mastrangelo co-hosted a weekly radio show on community affairs in Northampton, Mass., where he also wrote a monthly column on politics, arts, and current affairs for a local alternative newspaper.

— Mayhill Fowler is a freelance journalist whose previous career was being a stay-at-home mother to two now-adult daughters. She is the author of Notes From a Clueless Journalist: Media, Bias, and the Great Election of 2008, which detailed her experience covering the aforementioned presidential campaign for the Huffington Post. Fowler, who holds degrees from Vassar College and the University of California at Berkeley, served as a Knight Journalism Fellow at the University of Maryland.

— Anjali Mullany is the social media manager at the New York Daily News. She received her master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

— Latrice Davis is a freelance multimedia journalist and had been an online editor at the Associated Press from 2000 to 2007. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication from New York University.

Panel: How to Cover the Biggest Police Force in the Nation: Tips on Reporting on the NYPD and other Law Enforcement Agencies From Some of the City’s Top Police Reporters

Date: Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Location: NYC Seminar and Conference Center, 71 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010
Cost: $5 for club members; $15 for non-members; $10 for students

RSVP: Please visit the club website for bios of panelists and to purchase tickets.
http://www.newswomensclubnewyork.com/panels/

From reporting the details of the NYPD’s work thwarting terrorist threats here and abroad, to getting the details of the city’s latest high-profile arrest or murder, to exposing ongoing allegations of ticket-fixing scandals within the department, reporting on the largest police force in the US can be a daunting task. Hear from the reporters assigned to the Police Headquarters beat, or the “shack,” about what it takes to get reliable, timely information out of the department,
handle sensitive information appropriately, and build sources. Panelists will include Murray Weiss of DNAinfo.com, Colleen Long, of the Associated Press, Lorena Mongelli, of the New York Post and John Doyle of the NY Daily News. Our moderator is club member Nicole Bode, a senior editor at DNAinfo.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AT 6:30 PM

MEDIA MOGULS AND NEWSPAPER EMPIRES: JOURNALISM IN NEW YORK
ALAN BRINKLEY AND DAVID NASAW IN CONVERSATION

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
www.mcny.org
212-534-1672

Romemu http://romemu.org invites ALL to Purim Night : A radical retelling of the Scroll of Esther for these turbulent times.

When: Saturday, March 19th, 2011 @ 7:00 pm

Where: West End Presbyterian Church
165 West 105th Street, NYC 10025

Cost: $30 at the door, $25 in advance
Students $18 (includes a drink ticket)

To purchase advance tickets: tinyurl.com/purimteaparty or call Romenu office (212)580-4294

For more information: www.romemu.org or www.storahtelling.org

If you are interested in this opportunity, please follow instructions below. If you end up attending, we’d love to hear feedback. Good luck!

Columbia Students and Faculty:

Free VIP Tickets!
Please join us in an exclusive one hour interview with

Matt Lauer, TODAY SHOW HOST

CenterStage with Michael Kay
Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network

Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Doors open by 9:00 a.m. Taping using starts around 10:30 and runs for at least an hour and a half - be prepared to be flexible.

***Snacks and beverages will be served***

PLACE: Chelsea Studios
221 West 26th Street

LIMITED SEATING! (2 Ticket Maximum)

TICKET REQUEST PROCESS:

You must call the YES Network ticket request line to book the upcoming show. Once you hear the outgoing message, press #2 on your telephone keypad for the Ticket Confirmation voice-mailbox, where you will follow the prompts to leave your reservation. Please state that you are from Columbia and received this VIP invitation.

TICKET REQUEST LINE: #212-479-7777
Your name will be then be placed on the show day’s ticket reservation guest list. Tickets are distributed upon check-in. Since tickets are FREE, we honor a first come first serve policy.

Studio Audience Dress Code: Business casual. (We suggest adults not wearing sportswear; shorts, jerseys, jeans or sneakers in the studio.)

No one under 18 years of age will be admitted without a parent or guardian.

Audience Services: centerstage@yesnetwork.com

Former Columbia J-School Professor Seymour Topping will have a book night tonight. Current J-School Students are invited.

The event is free, people only need to RSVP to boots@opcofamerica.org

Event Date and Time: 23 March 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Event Location: Club Quarters, 40 West 45th Street
www.opcofamerica.org

To say that Seymour Topping has been an eyewitness to the major news events of the 20th century would be a vast understatement. He has virtually reported or edited the greatest stories of our time. Join us on Tuesday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at Club Quarters to hear Topping discuss his vast career, extraordinary experiences and his latest book.
His new book On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent’s Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam [Louisiana State University Press, March 2010] picks up the story of the stories that he reported.

At the close of World War II, Topping — who had served as an infantry officer in the Pacific — reported for the International News Service from Beijing and Mao’s Yenan stronghold, before joining the Associated Pressin Nanking, Chaing Kai-Shek’s capital. He covered the Chinese Civil War for the next three years, often interviewing Nationalist and Communist commanders in combat zones. Topping was captured by Communist guerillas and tramped for days over battlefields to reach the People’s Liberation Army as it advanced on Nanking. Topping was the sole correspondent on the battlefield during the decisive Battle Huai-Hai, which sealed Mao’s victory and later scored a world-wide exclusive as the first journalist to report the fall of the capital.