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Reserve your class T-shirt! They are $10 each and will be available for pickup and payment on May 21 and May 22.

No extras will be ordered, reserve a shirt even if are not sure you want one.

DEADLINE TO RESERVE: FRIDAY, MAY 9 at 3 p.m.

DESCRIPTION
Color: navy blue
Front: #cujshirt
Back: That’s MASTER of journalism to you.

Sizes available:
small [no extra small sorry]
medium
large
XL
XXL

ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Go to http://bit.ly/2013classshirt
2)Type your name, email and size of shirt [if you want more than one shirt, type one a second line, 1 shirt per line]
3)Pick up and pay for your shirt on May 21 or May 22 [after graduation].

DEADLINE TO RESERVE: FRIDAY, MAY 9 at 3 p.m.

SPJ is seeking nominations for its annual Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award as well as the Student of the Year Award.

FOR TEACHER OF THE YEAR

The Teacher of the Year award recognizes outstanding work in the classroom and continued service to the profession, for his/her talents as a teacher, mentor and journalist.

Past winners are…
2012: SANDY PADWE [not eligible]
2011: KEVIN COYNE [not eligible]
2010: MICHAEL SHAPIRO [not eligible]
2009: PAULA SPAN [not eligible]
2008: BRUCE PORTER [not eligible]
2007: ROBIN REISIG [not eligible]
2006: RICHARD WALD
2005: JAMES W. CAREY
2004: KEVIN COYNE
2003: DAVID KLATELL
2002: LYNNELL HANCOCK
2001: MARGUERITE HOLLOWAY
2000: SANDY PADWE
1999: MICHAEL SHAPIRO
1998: SIG GISSLER
1997: SAMUEL FREEDMAN

ELIGIBLITY: Any professor at the Journalism School is eligible, EXCEPT of the winners from the last
six years so recipients from 2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012 can NOT receive this year’s award.

Preference will be given to full-time faculty and visiting professors who have made a real commitment of their time to the school and the students.

You may nominate ONE person for consideration by the SPJ Board. Please fill in the ballot below and write no more than 100 words with the reason you are nominating this professor — bullet points are OK.

Provide specific examples of this person’s qualities — teaching AS WELL AS service to the profession.

FOR STUDENT OF THE YEAR
The Student of the Year award recognizes dedication in academic work AND student activities. A student whose energy and talent make him or her an example of a superior Columbia Journalism School graduate. Someone who has helped make the year better for his/her class.

Only students graduating in May 2013 (full-time or part-time) can be nominated BUT all students can participate in the nomination process.

As in every year, the class president (this year it’s Kimberly Brooks) is NOT eligible for this award.

Please write the reasons you are nominating this student. 100 words max — bullet points are OK.

Both awards are NOT a popular vote. You are suggesting names for the SPJ Board to consider.

DEADLINE: Monday, May 13 at MIDNIGHT

Winner announced at the Boat Cruise on Monday, May 19, 2013.

Questions about the awards: Rebecca Castillo, rc73@columbia.edu

IMPORTANT: Many of the nominations are eloquent and compelling — but only the eventual winner knows he/she was even nominated. You will receive a copy of your input via e-mail after you finish filling in the form. Please consider sending a copy to your nominee so that he/she knows you appreciate him/her.

HOW TO VOTE: Fill out your ballot at: http://www.formsite.com/columbiaspj/teacher/index.html

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.

In order to help you plan for Graduation and beyond, we have prepared some documents for you — please make sure you read both carefully.

Journalism Day, the Journalism School graduation ceremony and the University graduation are covered in detail on the graduation page: http://bit.ly/JSchool2013

Post-graduation use of the building/equipment and alumni benefits/services are covered at http://bit.ly/CUJ13_YREnd

The final graduation briefings:

Thursday, May 2, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Tuesday, May 7, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.

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.

There will be a free screening of The Skin That Burns at 6.30pm on Wednesday in the Toni Stabile Student Center.

The Skin That Burns is a documentary that shows the journey of Iran’s volunteer soldiers as they continue to struggle with the effects of being exposed to chemical bombs during the Iran-Iraq War over two decades earlier. Ahmad Salimi, a veteran soldier from Iran, is shown as he continues to recover from turning legally blind, sustaining burn scars throughout his body, and moving on with life since the war. Shot in Tehran over the course of five weeks, this short film also features footage of Ahmad with his wife and two sons, interviews with veterans at the Tehran Peace Museum, and Ahmad’s physician, as well as archival footage of the war.

Filmmaker Narges Bajoghli is a Ph.D student in Anthropology and the Program in Culture and Media at New York University. She is the director of the Chemical Victims Oral History Project in Tehran, and has spent more than five years researching and working in Iran. In 2011, Narges studied with documentary filmmaker Marco Williams. Under his guidance, she shot, directed, and produced a short film about a young Cuban singer in New York City. The Skin That Burns results from more than six years of work on chemical warfare in the Iran-Iraq War.

View the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/48601945

This event is co-sponsored by the Sevellon Brown fund.

We have a couple of slots left for this very important Online Safety Workshop that is being offered next week, so if you have interest and can DEFINITELY attend then sign up now.

Online Security Workshop: Wednesday, February 27
Reporters Without Borders, an international organization defending press freedom worldwide, is happy to offer an online security workshops to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism students. For the past decade Reporters Without Borders has worked on internet freedom issues and for years has organized online security workshops for journalists and citizen-journalists in South East Asia and in the Middle East. To preserve access to sensitive information and to protect their sources, reporters need to be aware of basic online security issues and easy-to-use tools to protect their work.

The workshop will be held from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., in 607C Lab and is open only to Journalism School students and only by advance registration at http://bit.ly/XVpwCn. Attendance will be limited to 24 participants in each workshop. The MORNING WORKSHIP IS COMPLETELY FILLED WITH A LONG WAITING LIST ALREADY.

Because many students have classes, we have scheduled the workshop to be held at two different times. If you register, your attendance is mandatory for the entire session, so if cannot attend after all you MUST notify me ASAP to not deprive colleagues a chance to participate.

During the 4-hour workshops, students will learn these skills and more:

• be aware of possibilities for tracing of mobile phone communications and interception, and how to protect themselves during online communication.
• protect their computer (including Macs) by installing antivirus software, limiting administrative access, activating their firewalls.
• erase traces and logs on their computer and be aware of security certificates (SSL).
• be aware of metadata, and how to permanently erase deleted data from a computer’s hard drives.
• be aware of password breakers and how to build secure passwords.
• be aware of dangers on public wi-fi networks and prepare their computer to travel in at-risk countries.
• encrypt data to protect information and sources.

You don’t need to have previous experience in online security issues to participate, but you must bring your own laptop. After the workshop attendees will continue to have access to resources and software online to use in making their digital work secure.

After registering for this course, you must email to Delphine Helgand, Washington D.C. Director of Reporters Without Borders, to let her know whether you will be using a Mac or a PC laptop. Write to her at dcdesk[at]rsf.org.

A Powerpoint presentation on the workshop will be send to all participants the day before the program.

Instructor
Stephane Koch, Senior Online Security advisor for Reporters Without Borders since 2003, has taught in many schools in Europe (including the School of Economic War in Paris and the Journalism School in Lausanne, Switzerland). Koch is a consultant on online social networking, media strategy and information security. In 2011, he organized a four-day workshop in South East Asia with Reporters Without Borders on information security for local journalists in the region. He taught this workshop at The Journalism School last spring, and just completed a similar session for journalists in Egypt.

From Kenan Davis:

Dear J-school community:

Below is a listing of our Fall office hours and other information:

The Digital Media Associates are available to assist students and faculty with digital media needs related to instruction at The Journalism School. Whether it’s a problem using Final Cut Pro or a problem gathering audio with an Olympus recorder, let us know and we’ll do our best to help.

The DM Associates have office hours by appointment Monday thru Thursday during Fall Semester at the following days/times:

Monday:
1-4 Sam by appt

Tuesday:
1-4 Tahiat by appt
5-8 DM Staff by appt

Wednesday:
1-4 Kenan by appt

Thursday:
1-4 Beth by appt

We will also have open office hours where you can get additional help from the DM Associates without making an appointment at the following days/times:

Monday thru Thursday:
10-12 in Stabile

Email dmassociates@columbia.edu no later than 24 hours in advance to schedule an appointment. And appointments will be for 30 minute blocks.

Also please be considerate of your colleagues and let us know as far ahead of time as possible if you need to cancel or change an appointment.

Finally, remember that there are many helpful guides and tutorials site at http://digitaltutorials.jrn.columbia.edu

And for even more tutorials, you can head to http://www.lynda.com/portal/columbia and log in with your Columbia ID for access to a ton of in-depth tutorials.

As always, if you have questions, please email us.

Thanks,
Kenan

All are cordially invited to this 9/11 anniversary event. Granta magazine’s new special issue, launching this week, is “Ten Years
After”… Join the editor, John Freeman, as he hosts a panel discussion about the media, Islam and 9/11.

Granta Panel: Islamophobia, the Media and Echoes of 9/11
Wednesday, September 7
5-6:30 pm
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway, New York 10027
116th St & Broadway (#1 train to 116th St)
No RSVP required

As time passes, stories are bound to change and take on different meanings. Looking back to 9/11 and taking stock of where we are today, this discussion will explore Islamophobia, media rhetoric and how we remember 9/11. Writer, sociologist and communications scholar Todd Gitlin; Granta 116 poet and law professor Lawrence Joseph; and civil rights attorney and author of “Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice” Alia Malek will join Granta magazine editor John Freeman to explore this topic.

Learn more about Granta 116:
http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later

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To the Columbia Community:

I am writing to tell you about a new shuttle bus service which will be introduced in the Morningside Heights area for Columbia University community members early in the Fall 2011 semester. This new shuttle service, which will replace point-to-point vehicular escorts, will utilize two shuttle buses traveling on different routes, in thirty minute loops across the Morningside and Manhattanville areas.

The evening shuttle service will operate seven days a week from 6PM every evening until 4AM the following morning. We believe that the evening shuttle service will provide a safe and efficient method for traveling around the Morningside Campus area during the evening hours. A copy of the evening shuttle bus schedule which contains both a map of the routes and a listing of the stops on each of the two separate routes can be found on the Public Safety website at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/publicsafety/.

For those who prefer, Public Safety’s walking escort service, which sends two specially trained students to walk you to your door, will continue to be available seven nights a week from 8PM to 3AM. We encourage you to take advantage of both of these services.

For further information on this, and other shuttle services provided to the Columbia Community, please visit http://transportation.columbia.edu.

All the best,

Jim McShane

James F. McShane
Vice President for Public Safety

Dear Public Safety Friends,

Public Safety Crime Prevention will be engraving & registering laptops & other electronics with the NYPD & CU Public Safety tomorrow (Wednesday) 1/20/10 from the hours of
11AM - 2PM, Law School 1st floor in front of room 103.

A unique Police number is engraved on the property and will be registered with the NYPD & CU from New York to California including Alaska & Hawaii.

This is a FREE & very effective program that has helped in the recovery of lost or stolen property. In a most recent recovery, the NYPD arrested an individual who was in possession of stolen property belonging to one of our Doctors at the Medical Center, thanks to our Operation ID Program.

Also available will be:

FREE NYPD Blue Light program- Same as above except invisible ink is used & can be viewed with a special police light. Excellent for Cell Phones!

Kensington Ultra Laptop Locks- Discounted- Special pricing for Columbia University only.

PC or Mac Phone Home Stolen Laptop recovery program. Down load it from the CUIT website, FREE for students, faculty and staff. www.columbia.edu/acis/software/pcphonehome

Not needed for down load- Note down your computer’s serial number or Mac Address, keep it in a safe location. In the event of a theft, this will help speed up the recovery process. The link above will show you how to get this information.

For more information please call 212-854-8513.

Greetings colleagues:

Alice! is currently recruiting students to be a part of our team with a stress and coping intercept interview process.  Please share the information below with students that may be interested.

In health,
Michael

Qualitative Research Opportunity - Alice! Health Promotion Program

What:  Be a part of a team of qualitative researchers investigating how students cope with stress at Columbia. 

When:  Fall 2009

Details:  You will be trained to conduct brief intercept interviews on the Morningside campus.  Intercept interviews will take place weekdays.

Time commitment:  1 hour of training & a minimum of 5 hours of interviewing students.

Compensation:  $50.00 Barnes and Noble Gift Card

This is a great opportunity to build your research skills.

Email Susan Hochman sh2537@columbia.edu  for more information and/or to apply.

Monday, September 21
The International Media, Advocacy and Communications Specialization
Brown Bag: Talk with Reporter Katharine Zaleski, who will talk about her recent travels around the U.S. for her reporting on the health care debate, the future of digital journalism and how to get a job in online media.
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 253

Here is the description:

Zaleski will talk about her recent travels around the US for her reporting on the health care debate, the future of digital journalism and how to get a job in online media.

This will be from 12:30-2pm in room 253 on the 2th floor of the International Affairs Building.
Katharine Zaleski is the Senior Editor at the Huffington Post who oversees special projects. Previously she was the Senior News Editor of the site, overseeing the front page from the month Huffington Post launched in May
2005 until May 2009. Previously, Katharine worked for CNN after graduating from Dartmouth College. She has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CBC, Air America, BBC Radio as well as other media outlets.

To get to room 253, ignore the main bank of elevators and find the lone elevator next to the toilet and opposite the office of career services. Take that elevator down to 2, go through the forbidding door on your left and go right down the hall.

A quick note to say hello to our new PT January 2008 class, which has its orientation today. Fifteen students from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests begin RW1 today, studying with Prof. Ruth Padawer.

Good luck, everyone.

Prof. Victor Navasky wins one of the most prestigious awards in journalism:
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11112

Victor S. Navasky will receive the George Polk Book Award for “A Matter of Opinion,” a unique memoir full of colorful personalities and big events published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Navasky, who became editor of the The Nation in 1978 and rose to become its publisher and editorial director in 1995, is now publisher emeritus. His work provides a historically significant view of the role that public discourse plays in sustaining the democratic process in an age of mass media and corporate dominance.