The Daily Plan-it / Dean of Students Blog, Columbia J-school

Hope you are doing well in the home stretch. Here are some events you may want to attend in the next few days:

1) Monday, May 13: MEET THE MEDIA: Nilay Patel
The managing editor for The Verge, Nilay Patel, will talk about the kind of jobs that are available at the site, what it is like to work in this business and the current state of the industry. Monday, May 13, Noon – 1 p.m. Room 607B.

2) Friday, May 10: The Declassification Engine: Conference on the Computational Analysis of Official Secrecy.
Historians, journalists, legal scholars, statisticians, and computer scientists are meeting at Columbia University to consider how computational methods can illuminate the broad patterns of official secrecy and accelerate the declassification process. For more information and registration: http://www.declassification-engine.org/index.py?section=conference. Friday, May 10, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Lecture Hall (3rd Floor), School of Journalism (Pulitzer Building).

Join a discussion with Eliot Kaplan, executive director of talent acquisition for Hearst magazines from 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 9 in the World Room.

Please join us for a special discussion session with Eliot Kaplan, executive director of talent acquisition for Hearst magazines and former National Magazine Award-winning editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine and managing editor of GQ.

In a Q&A format, Kaplan will discuss the present and future of the magazine business — in print and online, for writers, editors and executives — based on his decades of experience at Condé Nast, Hearst and Metrocorp (publisher of Philadelphia and Boston magazines). He currently works as the chief editorial talent director for all the Hearst magazines, overseeing all top and mid-level hiring at Esquire, O, the Oprah magazine, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Food Network magazine, Redbook, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping and many others.

Kaplan will discuss, and take questions about everything from entry-level job strategies to the future of the magazine business in print and online, in the U.S. and internationally.

The session will be moderated by adjunct professor Stephen Fried, who worked with Kaplan at GQ and Philadelphia (They are also co-founders of the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize at the University of Pennsylvania).

This session of the magazine writing workshop is open to all J-School students and faculty. No RSVP is necessary.

Questions? Email Stephen Fried: stephenfried@comcast.net.

Join Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning producer Alex Gibney in a discussion of his latest documentary, “We Steal Secrets” about Wikileaks Wednesday, May 8 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. in the Lecture Hall.

Alex Gibney is the founder of Jigsaw Productions. An Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning producer, he is well known for producing one of the highest grossing documentaries of all time, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” In addition, Gibney is sought after for his experience in mounting large international productions, particularly multi-part series, such as Martin Scorsese’s Emmy and Grammy Award-winning “The Blues” and David Halberstam’s “The Fifties.”

An accomplished writer and director in his own right, Gibney is the leading creative force behind many of Jigsaw’s productions and is well known for crafting stories that take an unflinching look at the political landscape of America. His work as a writer and director includes the recent hit “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” as well as the 2006 Oscar-nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and the 2008 Oscar-winning “Taxi to the Dark Side.”

While Gibney has produced films through Jigsaw for over 25 years, he also worked briefly as a director of special projects for the Samuel Goldwyn Company. And from 1998 to 2000, Gibney was the Senior Vice President of Offline Entertainment Group, a New York-based production company whose principals included producer Ezra Swerdlow and long-time collaborator, Marc Levin.

Gibney is a regular blogger for the Atlantic, and has also written for Newsweek, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, Los Angeles Reader, Chicago Reader, and San Francisco Chronicle.

Questions? Email Prof. June Cross: jc1339@columbia.edu.

This week’s Delacorte Lecture Series features BuzzFeed’s Ken Lerer and Jonah Peretti at 7 p.m. in the World Room.

Join Professor Victor Navasky in the final Delacorte Lecture of the semester, featuring BuzzFeed’s Ken Lerer and Jonah Peretti. Required for all magazine concentrators.

BuzzFeed reaches over 40 million monthly unique visitors and gets the majority of its traffic from social sources like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.

JONAH PERETTI
Jonah Peretti is Founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, the first true social news organization that provides a pioneering mix of breaking news, entertainment and shareable content. Mr. Peretti, known for creating viral hits, tracking online social behavior and building technology to amplify buzz is also a co-founder of The Huffington Post. He has been called a “viral marketing hotdog” by The New York Times, “the poster boy of guerilla media” by AlterNet and a “computer-whiz” by The New Yorker. Fast Company named Mr. Peretti one of the “New Faces of Social Media” and named BuzzFeed as one of the “50 Most Innovative Companies” in 2012. Business Insider listed him as one of the “11 Rising Tech Stars to Watch in 2012.”

Mr. Peretti is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and has taught at NYU and the Parsons School of Design. His work has been covered by Time, the Economist, Fortune, and Business Insider and he has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN.

KENNETH LERER
Kenneth Lerer is a Managing Director at Lerer Ventures. He was the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Huffington Post. Mr. Lerer is Chairman of Betaworks and BuzzFeed, and is Vice-Chairman of Bedrocket. He is a member of Pilot Group LLC, a private investment firm.

Mr. Lerer is Chairman Emeritus of the Public Theater in New York City and serves on the boards of directors of several nonprofit organizations, including the Association to Benefit Children (ABC), and the Bank Street College of Education. In 2008-09, Mr. Lerer served as the Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at Columbia Journalism School.

Join Consumer Reports for a panel discussion on mobile technology and to discuss consumer trade-offs in a mobile culture on Wednesday, May 1 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the lecture hall.

The event will kick-off with the findings from the annual Consumer Reports’ State of the Net report and a keynote address from John Morris the Associate Administrator and Director of Internet Policy at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). A panel of consumer advocates, mobile proponents, and industry experts will explore the upsides/downsides of an increasingly mobile world and weigh the benefits and opportunities of mobile services against the risks they pose to privacy and security.

The event is free but please RSVP: http://consumer-reports-privacy.eventbrite.com

Keynote: John Morris, Associate Administrator and Director of Internet Policy, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Panelists:

• Julie Ask, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
• Susan Grant, Director of Consumer Protection, Consumer Federation of America
• Mick de Meijer; Mobile Account Director, at MXM Mobile
• Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, Columbia University, moderator

Contact: Janice Smith, Consumer Reports, jsmith@consumer.org

Reporting compassionately, effectively and thoughtfully on the impact of violence is one of the toughest yet most rewarding jobs facing any journalist. Please join the Dart Center Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m. for a conversation and celebration with the best: winners of the 2013 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.

This year’s Dart Awards went to the Los Angeles Times for the powerfully poignant series, “Standing Up: Davien´s Story” and the collaborative team of ProPublica, Fundación MEPI and This American Life for a comprehensive, multi-platform project “Finding Oscar” and “What Happened at Dos Erres.”

We’ll showcase their work at an awards presentation followed by a roundtable discussion — “Bringing it Home” featuring: ProPublica senior reporter Sebastian Rotella; Fundación MEPI director (and J-School alum) Ana Arana; freelance reporter and producer (and J-School alum), Habiba Nosheen; “This American Life” reporter and producer Brian Reed; LA Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske; LA Times photographer Barbara Davidson; The New York Times national correspondent and `At War´ blog editor James Dao; The New York Times freelance `At War´ blogger Thomas J. Brennan; York Daily News editor Scott Blanchard and York Daily News photographer, Jason Plotkin.

The Dart Awards are a highlight of the Dart Center’s calendar. I hope you’ll join us in the World Room Wednesday at 6 p.m. to raise a glass, meet the winners, and participate in a rich discussion about high-impact reporting of violence, trauma and tragedy.

This event is free and open to the public, so please forward this invitation to anyone else who might be interested.

SAJA at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism presents Covering Pakistan in the Age of Data: A conversation with Alia Chughtai, New Media at Pakistan’s Dawn Media Group at 3 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center on Friday, April 26.

Alia Chughtai is a designer at heart, but in love with journalism. At Dawn, she is involved in all aspects of design, development, social media and interactive journalism. With Pakistan’s elections just around the corner, Alia and her team have been leading the way the event is covered online. She headed the Creative efforts at Dawn News TV, Pakistan’s first English language news channel, and over saw all brand, on and off screen design, promotions, and advertising.

This week’s Delacorte Lecture features theSkimm.com co-founders, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. in the World Room.

Danielle Weisberg
Growing up in Chicago, Danielle was exposed to politics at an early age from family dinner table discussions in which she asked questions like, “Why is Bill Clinton in trouble?” Danielle was always the kid with her head in a book, mostly Nancy Drew. In high school, she interned for a few PR firms, which included work for “Oprah,” that got her going on a path of delivering information to people (and of possibly becoming a media mogul). While attending Tufts University, Danielle interned for Boston Magazine and MSNBC, which turned her into a full fledged political junkie. Upon graduating in 2008, Danielle went to work for NBC News in Washington, D.C. where she covered everything from the election and inauguration to TARP hearings and health care reform rallies for “Nightly News” and the “Today” show. In 2010, Danielle moved to New York, where she currently resides, to produce for MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” there she learned way too much about the tax code and spearheaded a campaign
with UNICEF. Danielle loves the Chicago Cubs, anything that happens when Kanye West and Jay-Z get together, fundraising for the K.I.N.D. Fund, and watching really horrible new television shows.

Carly Zakin
Carly became addicted to the “Today” show at age 5 — not their target demo — and fell in love with the news. Always a bookworm and inquisitive, her parents constantly told her she should either be a detective or an investigative reporter because she asked too many questions. She started interning in publishing in high school and knew from day one she wanted to make a living out of storytelling. While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, she began interning for “NBC News.” After graduating in 2008, she began work for CNBC’s primetime development division and went on to produce MSNBC news documentaries both in New York and D.C. From breaking news and writing for the political unit, to personal finance and documentaries on the Kennedy family, and interviewing Tom Brokaw on the Berlin Wall, she has made a career out of sharing stories. She also enjoyed a brief stint producing reality television, where she or may not have had to spend 8 days with a polygamist family. Not a sister-wife, Carly resides in New York and loves being a mentor with “Streetwise Partners,” has an unnatural obsession with John Stamos, bakes a mean soufflé, and secretly watches marathons of “Golden Girls” and “Frasier.”

The Delacorte Lectures, presented each week in the spring semester, examine aspects of magazine journalism by a leader in the field of magazine publishing. The series is headed by Victor Navasky, the George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism and director of the Delacorte Center.

Attend an Open Session with Maria Popova, founder of BrainPickings.com from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the World Room.

Please join us for a special session with Maria Popova, the 28-year-old founder of the amazingly influential site BrainPickings.com. The New York Times recently called Popova “the mastermind of one of the faster growing literary empires on the Internet” and Fast Company named her one of the 100 most creative people in business, proclaiming that “her blog and Twitter feed is read by the Who’s Who of the media, marketing, and ad worlds.”

BrainPickings.com is an amazing combination of curation and new journalism on science, art and culture, all part of a perpetual pursuit of what she calls “interestingness.” It also offers a new model of journalistic and critical entrepreneurship. Maria is very outspoken about the future of journalism and culture criticism, as well as curation and source crediting (she is the inventor of the “Curators Code). She runs her empire of interestingness – a blog with 500,000+ visitors a month, a newsletter with over 150,000 subscribers and a Twitter feed with over 325,000 followers – from a little apartment in Brooklyn.

Here’s a link to the recent Times piece about her: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/fashion/maria-popova-has-some-big-ideas.html?pagewanted=all

We will talk about online journalism and curation, alternative career tracks, and whatever else you want to ask Maria – who, I can assure you, is one of the most diverse and provocative characters you’ll ever meet. (When she was my intern as an undergrad at Penn, she was doing journalistic research for me, working at an ad agency, training for professional bodybuilding competitions and still immersed in the politics of her native Bulgaria.)

This session is open to all J-School students and faculty. 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. in the World Room. No RSVP is necessary.

Save the Date for this public event:

Covering Immigration Reform: a panel discussion moderated by Columbia Journalism Prof. Mirta Ojito

Monday, May 6, 2013, 6 p.m.

As we grapple with immigration reform, journalists nationally and locally must know the meaningful questions to ask about what the new policies mean for the U.S. and the countries that share its borders. A panel of reporters and immigration activists from both sides of the issue will hold a balanced discussion on immigration reform.

6 p.m.-6:30 p.m.: Networking event with snacks and refreshments sponsored by the Sevellon Brown Lecture Series

6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.: Panel discussion

Panelists:

• Erica Pearson, Immigration reporter for the New York Daily News
• Jose Antonio Vargas, Immigration activist and journalist
• Daniel Stein, President, Federation for American Immigration Reform
• Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center

Sponsored by Columbia Journalism School’s student NAHJ Chapter and the Sevellon Brown Lecture Series.

Interested in covering issues involving or challenges facing the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities? As reporters we will inevitably be faced with situations in which we will be writing/recording the lives and experiences of people of these identities. Come learn how to relate to these communities as a journalist and as an ally on Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center. We will deal with the most practical tools for journalists trying to report on LGBT issues and people.

Our presenter, Oriol Gutierrez, is the editor-in-chief of both POZ and Tu Salud magazines. In addition to having reported on LGBT topics for many years, he is also an authority on HIV/AIDS-related issues. Come have your questions answered on these topics and learn how to sensitively and fairly address stories related to these communities.

Reception, sponsored by Sevellon Brown Fund, follows the presentation.

How do we stay true to authentic, in-depth and original storytelling in a 140 character world?

Come exchange ideas with “niche-fillers” across the publishing spectrum who have carved out a new media approach to old school storytelling - and sharing. They’ll talk about how they’ve created space for stories that matter, and then, in the literary salon tradition, we’ll engage in a lively (and perhaps libation-fueled) conversation about how you - writers, journalists, authors, and poets - can find your niche,
too.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Kgb Bar (85 E 4th St, New York, New York 10003)

Featured guests:

Michael Shapiro, Journalist, Columbia Professor & Founder of The Big Roundtable

Rob Spillman, Editor Tin House magazine

Halimah Marcus, Co-Editor of Electric Lit’s Recommended Reading

Noah Rosenberg, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Narratively

You can find the details on Facebook.

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

Join Jonathan Katz, author of ‘The Big Truck That Went By,’ about post-earthquake relief efforts in Haiti for a talk on Tuesday, April 23 from 5 p.m.-6 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center.

Jonathan M. Katz is a former Associated Press correspondent and editor. The only full-time American news correspondent stationed in Haiti during the January 2010 earthquake, he stayed on to cover the aftermath and flawed recovery that followed. That fall, he broke the story that U.N. peacekeepers were the likely cause of a post-quake cholera epidemic that killed thousands of people. Katz was awarded the 2010 Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism and the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award for ‘The Big Truck That Went By.’ Other recognition has included a National Headliners Award and finalist recognition by the Livingston Award and Michael Kelly Award for the “fearless pursuit and expression of truth.” In seven years with AP, Katz also reported from Washington, D.C., Mexico City, Santo Domingo, New York, Jerusalem, the United Nations, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter, @KatzOnEarth.

Brian Stelter talks to Jonathan Wald about Top of the Morning, Stelter’s new book at Columbia Journalism School on from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, April 29.

The mornings are some of the most popular and lucrative hours of the television day, and the topic of a new book by Brian Stelter, a media reporter at The New York Times. How did “Good Morning America” overtake “Today” after 16 years in second place? How do the shows – and a dozen other smaller ones – balance journalism and entertainment? Do they have a future in a world dominated by phones and tablets? Stelter tackles these issues with Jonathan Wald, a former executive producer of “Today” and an adjunct faculty member at Columbia.

See the twtvite: #MUSTATTEND @BrianStelter in conversation w/ @JonathanWald.

Please join us “A vision of the future: what will it look like?” on Tuesday, April 30 in the Lecture Hall.

Ask your questions of Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google and Jared Cohen, director, Google Ideas, co-authors of The New Digital Age.

With incoming Journalism School Dean Steve Coll.

Tuesday, April 30
4 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall

Food and drinks to follow.

Registration is required, and seating will be limited. Click here to RSVP.

Please note that space is limited and seats cannot be held after 3:45 p.m.

The Earth Institute is sponsoring”A Conversation of America’s Future” with Joe Scarborough and Jeffrey D. Sachs on Friday, April 19 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.

Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) is the host of MSNBC´s Morning Joe, the show Time Magazine calls “revolutionary” and The New York Times ranked as the top news program of 2008. In April 2011, Scarborough was named to the prestigious “Time 100″ list of the world´s most influential people.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Devel­opment, and Professor of Health Policy and Manage­ment at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

This event will be LIVE webcast.

For more information and to register visit: www.earth.columbia.edu/webcast

SPJ presents Crai Bower “From Pitch to Paycheck - The Reality of Living the Dream as a Travel Writer on Monday, April 15, from 5 p.m. to 6p.m. in the Stabile Student Center. Crai Bower contributes scores of articles and photographs annually to more than 30 publications and online outlets including Alaska Airlines, Journey, and Inspirato magazines, The Toronto Star, Travel + Leisure Digital, and MSN Travel, where he is also the lead travel blogger. He frequently speaks throughout North America at travel-related conferences. His book of humor, “Farts: A Spotter´s Guide,” has sold over 250,000 copies
and been translated into five languages. He contributed four chapters to Fodor´s “Vancouver-Victoria” (2010) and is profiled in the bestselling photography book, “Seattle 100: Portrait of a City - Voices that Matter.” He is the television travel commentator for KCPQ-13 and is widely syndicated on Tribune Broadcasting.

Last April, Crai received an Outstanding Lifestyle Feature Award from the American Society of Journalists & Authors, his fourth national writing accolade in as many years. Learn more about Crai at www.FlowingStreamWriting.net and on Twitter @craisbower.

Come for an informal talk with Burmese journalists Thiha Saw and Ko Ko from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center Wednesday, February 27.

About the speakers:

Mr. Thiha Saw, Editor in Chief, Open News and Member of the Press Council
Thiha Saw is the Editor-in-Chief of Open News, a weekly news journal that he founded in 2008, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Myanmar Dana Business Magazine, a monthly private publication that he founded in 1990. Concurrently, he is Vice-President of the Myanmar Journalists Association, an 1,100-plus member, independent journalist’s body, and he also serves as a Member of the Interim Press Council which is in the process of drafting a new press law. He began his Journalism career in 1979 at the Working People’s Daily. Mr. Thiha Saw was forced to resign from his work at the News Agency of Burma as an Editor in 1988 for taking part in the brief freedom of press movement. Educated at the Rangoon University (B.Sc Nuclear Physics - 1971) and at the International Institute of Journalism in West Berlin (Dip. J - 1986) Mr. Thiha Saw supplemented his education as a Humphrey Fellow at the College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, (1997-1998).

Mr. Ko Ko, Yangon Media Group Limited and Member of the Press Council
Ko Ko currently serves as Founder and Chairman of the Yangon Media Group, which publishes two prominent weekly papers, The Flower News and The Yangon Times. In addition, Mr. Ko Ko is a member of the Myanmar Press Council and is contributing to the drafting of the media law and several codes of conduct for media. Previously, he co-founded 7 Day News, the first weekly managed by citizens of Myanmar, and with more than 30 years of experience in the journalism field, Ko Ko was elected as Vice President of the Myanmar Journalists Association. In order to expand his knowledge on media laws and press councils in the region, Mr. Ko Ko has participated in events, such as the world press freedom day in Tunisia and a study tour of neighboring Asian countries. Moreover, Mr. Ko Ko has led journalism short course trainings.

Don’t miss a sneak preview of the documentary Makers: Women Who Make America from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the Lecture Hall with a reception to follow in the World Room.

Makers: Women Who Make America, which premiers on February 26, tells the story of the women´s movement through the firsthand accounts of the leaders, opponents, and trailblazers who created a new America in the last half-century.

The event includes a conversation with Barak Goodman ´86, Writer/Director, and Professor Betsy West, Executive Producer.

• 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Screening
• 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Discussion
• 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.: Reception

This event is sponsored by the Sevellon Brown fund. Advanced RSVP required. Please email CUJScentennial@columbia.edu to be placed on the waitlist.

Dear Students,

The Columbia Turkish Students Present…….“Women and Media: Gender Equality” with guest speaker, Vuslat Dogan Sabanci.

Sabanci is…
- A Columbia Sipa Alumni
- Chairwoman of Trader Media East Limited
- Member of the International Press Institute’s Board of Directors
- CEO of Hurriyet Newspaper Publishing Co, Turkey’s Leading News Publisher
She previously worked at:
- New York Times
- Wall Street Journal

WHEN: January 28th from 7-8pm
WHERE: International Affairs Bldg. Rm 1512

To All MS Students:
Welcome back to NYC, and if you’re still away, travel safely.

We want to let you know what is planned for Spring Prep Day, next Wednesday Jan. 23, to get your next semester underway. We’ve lined up a stellar day-long program of world-class prize-winning journalists to inspire you no matter your concentration or subject interest, prep you for the job search now and beyond, and provide you a chance to engage on critical issues facing journalism. We’ll built in a comfortable lunch break with several options, including a session to learn about attending the MA program. We’ll end the day with a nice reception to be hosted by our friends from Hearst. Follow the links to learn more about the projects they will discuss, and bring plenty of questions for the DuPont winners, the recent grads and other speakers.

NOTE: Attendance is mandatory by MS students, so plan to be there.

Spring Prep Day / Wednesday, January 23, 2013
8:15-9:00am
Welcome Breakfast – Discounted breakfast and coffee/tea at Brad’s Café

8:30-9:00am
Student Registration, Lobby. // Pick up your special nametag

9:00-9:45am: Lecture Hall
Welcome – Ernest R. Sotomayor, Dean of Student Affairs; Associate Dean Melanie Huff; Student Q&A

Winners Circle, presentation by awardees from Columbia’s Alfred I. DuPont competition / Intro by Abi Wright, director, DuPont & Chancellor Awards

10:00-11 am: Lecture Hall
USA Today: “Ghost Factories”
* Alison Young, reporter, USA TODAY
* John Hillkirk, managing editor for investigative and data journalism, USA TODAY
* Anthony DeBarros, Director-Content, Gannett Digital
* Shannon Green, video editor, USA TODAY
Moderator: Sheila Coronel, Professor, Columbia Journalism School, and director, Stabile Center for
Investigative Journalism

11am-Noon: Two Concurrent Events, two locations (Pick one)

Lecture Hall
Covering Conflict (SANA): Reporting on Syria
* Deb Amos, NPR coverage of Syria
* Clarissa Ward, CBS “Inside Syria”
Moderator: Ann Cooper, Professor, Columbia Journalism School

Stabile Student Center
Investigate This: Local Investigative Reporting (TURNER)
* Ross Jones and Heather Catallo, “Wayne County Confidential”
* Lee Zurik, “Dirty Deeds” & “Hiding Behind the Badge”
* Colleen McCarty, “Desert Underwater”
* Susan Phillips, “Shale Play”
Moderator: A’Lelia Bundles, J-School graduate and bestselling author, independent journalist and Trustee, Columbia University

12:00-1:30pm
* Lunch on your own, or:
* Attend Documentary panel with pizza to be served, courtesy the DuPont Awards, or
* Attend Information Session for the 2013 Master of Arts Program.

12:30-1:15 pm, Room 601B
Info session for students interested in applying to next year’s Master of Arts program. Hosted by Associate Dean Christine Souders & MA Program Director Tali Woodward. To attend, Register at http://fs18.formsite.com/CUJournalismAdmissions/MASession/index.html

12:30-1:25pm,Lecture Hall: Documentary: Social issues (SANA)
* Cynthia Lowen, Bully
* Alex Kotlowitz, The Interrupters
* Steve James, The Interrupters
* Alison Klayman, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Moderator: June Cross, Professor, Columbia Journalism School

1:30-2:15pm: Lecture Hall
Student Panel: Surviving and thriving in your final semester, by three May 2012 Grads who’ll share advice, tips and take your Qs.
* Carmel DeAmicis - Digital Media Associate, Columbia J-School
* Diane Jeantet – Freelancer writer, and part-time reporter, American Lawyer Daily
* Elizabeth Dilts – Reporter, Reuters Magazine and Editorial Research Asst. to Reuters Editor in
Chief Stephen Adler

2:15-3:15 pm: Lecture Hall
Planning your Spring Career Strategies and beyond
Associate Dean Julie Hartenstein and the Career Services Team. An early look at the March Career Expo, planning for OPT and more about what’s to come this spring

3:15-3:30pm: Break

3:30-4:45 pm: Lecture Hall
Hearst - Columbia Journalism Dialogues: A conversation about “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present,” and the implications for how you as new grads will practice journalism and build careers in an increasingly changing media world, with co-authors Columbia Journalism Professor and Tow Center Director Emily Bell, and College of Staten Island Asst. Professor Chris Anderson (CUJ Ph.D ’09). Moderated Columbia Journalism Academic Dean Bill Grueskin; followed by Q&A ( session will be webcast live)

5-6 pm: World Room
Reception, hosted by Hearst.

6-7 pm: Room 607B
Spring Information Session for Part-time Class, with Elena Cabral, Director, Part-Time Program. Refreshments to be served.

Please join us for the Spring 2013 Business History Forum http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/rbml/exhibitions/bhf.html
speaker series at Columbia University, presented by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/rbml.html and the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History

All events are free and open to the public but require registration at cul-events@columbia.edu.
All sessions take place in 523 butler Library from 6:30-8:00 pm, unless otherwise noted.

February 11, 2013 (Monday)
Kurt Schuler
Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Stability; Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury
“The Bretton Woods Transcripts: New Findings”
Cosponsor: Program for Economic Research, Department of Economics

March 11, 2013 (Monday)
Guy Gugliotta
Author of Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War
“The Business of Building the United States Capitol”

April 11, 2013 (Wednesday)
Charles Bagli
The New York Times
“Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made”

April 16, 2013 (Tuesday)
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Professor of Economics and History, Yale University
“’Corporations are People Too’: The Strange History of Corporations and the Fourteenth Amendment

EVENT: STORYLINK (rsvp required)

FOR: Writers & Directors in these graduate departments: Creative Writing, Film, Journalism, Theater.

DATE: Friday, November 30th, 9pm.

LOCATION: Dodge Hall, room 501.

WEBSITE: www.facebook.com/Storylink

RSVP / CREATIVE PROFILE FORM: http://fs9.formsite.com/soafilm/form110/index.html?1352690883802

HOST: Film Directing Professor Ramin Bahrani, http://arts.columbia.edu/film/ramin-bahrani-0

ABOUT:

STORYLINK is an exclusive networking event to link graduate students in the Creative Writing, Theater, Journalism and Film departments. This is an opportunity for writers (screenwriters, playwrights, fiction writers & journalists) and directors (theater & film) to meet and spark collaborations on story ideas that can become scripts, plays or films.

There is tremendous talent spread through multiple departments at Columbia, and we hope that this event can bring students together and foster long-lasting collaborations both within and also outside the scope of the coursework of each discipline.

By RSVP’ing in advance and filling out the RSVP/CreativeProfile Form, we will attempt to connect writers and directors who share similar interests in creative speed-dating sessions. A mixer with food and drinks will follow where dialogues can continue, and also provide a forum to meet writers and directors who you were not paired with in the creative speed-dating sessions.

Lifting the Veil: The Challenge of Covering Secret Government Activities”

A panel discussion with New York Times reporters Scott Shane and Charlie Savage, moderated by Professor David Pozen.

Please join Professor Pozen and two of the nation’s preeminent national security journalists for this important discussion and follow-up Q&A session hosted by the Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security. Please RSVP below.

Date: Tuesday, December 4th
Time: 12:10 pm
Location: Room JG 102
RSVP: To: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=62343

- A boxed lunch will be served -

Scott Shane is a reporter covering intelligence and national security in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, where he has written about drone strikes, the debate over torture, the terrorist threat, the anthrax investigation, WikiLeaks, government secrecy and many other issues. He was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun from 1983 to 2004, covering a range of beats from courts to medicine and writing major series on brain surgery, schizophrenia, a drug corner, guns and crime, the eavesdropping National Security Agency and other topics.

Mr. Shane was The Sun’s Moscow correspondent from 1988 to 1991 and wrote a book on the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union.

Charlie Savage is a Washington correspondent for The New York Times. He is known for his work on presidential power and other legal policy matters. Before joining The Times, Mr. Savage covered national legal affairs for the Boston Globe from 2003 to 2008. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2007 for his coverage of presidential signing statements for the Globe. Other awards he earned while at the Globe include the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.

Mr. Savage’s book about the growth of executive power, “Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy,” was named one of the best books of 2007 by both Slate and Esquire. The book also received the bipartisan Constitution Project’s inaugural Award for Constitutional Commentary, the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Mr. Savage was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated summa cum laude with degrees in English and American literature from Harvard College in 1998. In 2003, he earned a master’s degree from Yale Law School, where he was a Knight Journalism Fellow. Mr. Savage got his start as a local government and politics reporter for the Miami Herald.

PANEL EVENT: Religion and Politics Around the World - moderated by Prof. Ari Goldman

THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE “COVERING RELIGION”
SEMINAR THIS SPRING PLEASE TAKE NOTE:

Religion journalist from four continents will participate. The panel will be held on:

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, at 7:30 in the World Room.

The panelists include:

Maria-Paz Lopez (J ’97), senior religion writer for La Vanguardia in Barcelona, Spain

Hani Hazaimeh, senior political analyst and reporter for The Jordan Times in Amman

Douglas Todd, religion writer for The Vancouver Sun in Canada

Yazeed Kamaldien, reporter and photojournalist from Cape Town, South Africa

Dear Journalism School student:

Once again, we’re doing something very special with the Pulitzer Prizes this fall and we hope to see you there.

The all-class lecture at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 16, in the Lecture Hall will be a seminar entitled “Holding Up the Mirror.” It will explore journalism that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2012 by alerting society to serious problems that were being neglected. Six winners from across the country will deconstruct their work and share their down-to-earth techniques — guided by moderator Sheila Coronel, director of the Journalism School’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Students will learn how the powerful stories originated. They will hear how the journalists overcame barriers and what lessons they learned.

Here are the journalists, their prizes and links to their work:

Violence in the public schools
Susan Snyder and Mike Leary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Public Service Prize.
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Public-Service

Deadly embrace of a painkiller
Michael J. Berens, The Seattle Times, Investigative Reporting Prize
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Investigative-Reporting

Spying by New York City police
Matt Apuzzo and Eileen Sullivan, The Associated Press, Investigative Reporting Prize
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Investigative-Reporting

Hidden wounds of struggling veterans
Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post, Feature Photography Prize
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Feature-Photography

It is an unusual opportunity to see what it takes to win a Pulitzer. Moreover, Leary (’72) is a third generation graduate of the Journalism School.

Please join the Social Enterprise Club for lunch with a very special guest: Paul Binder, founder of the Big Apple Circus, CBS Class of ‘65.

Learn about Mr. Binder’s adventures in creative business and social entrepreneurship,

And how he started one of the world’s most successful circuses.

Mr. Binder plans to share his story as well as stimulate our natural creative tendencies and

encourage us to tolerate uncertainty and be excited about the possibilities in front of us.

See Mr. Binder’s full bio here: http://www.paulbindercircus.com/about.html

Thursday, September 27th: 12:30-2pm

Please RSVP here: https://columbia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0uIYdIR3QJgA5db

Brown Bag Lecture

“The Net and Chinese Narratives”
Geremie Barmé, Founding Director, Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University
Jeremy Goldkorn, Founder and Editor, Danwei.com

Tuesday, September 25
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No registration required.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, SIPA’s International Media, Advocacy and Communications concentration, and Columbia Journalism School

Harness: Creating Change with Spofford-Market

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium,
Columbia University GSAPP
#wood091912

Majora Carter, Majora Carter Group

Leading environmental activist and MacArthur Fellow Majora Carter discusses the potentials of gentrification—like forces of wind, solar, and fire—to be harnessed for public good. In particular, how to “create the economic diversity in poor communities that encourages more successful people to stay, poor people to have more hope, and newcomers to feel great about what they are contributing to,” in relation to a proposed transformation of the Bridges Juvenile Center in the Spofford Avenue Neighborhood of the South Bronx. “Concentrated poverty diminishes hope and possibility for those who can’t escape,” Carter notes. “How do we harness the power of gentrification to create better communities with more potential for everyone?

FREE EVENT