By admin on August 28, 2010
D’Ann Penner and Keith Ferdinand’s empathy, conscience, intelligence and drive pulse through Overcoming Katrina, an oral history comprised of interviews with 27 black New Orleanians, all of whom survived, and were deeply affected by, the hurricane that devastated the Gulf region five years ago tomorrow. Penner, an award-winning scholar, and Keith Ferdinand, a New Orleans physician who lost a practice of [...]
Posted in Hurricane Katrina
By admin on August 27, 2010
As media attention focuses on New Orleans and Katrina anniversary observances, bloggers are massing in the city to demonstrate “Internet activism” at the Rising Tide Conference this weekend. The conference Saturday at the Howlin’ Wolf intends to bring bloggers together to “dispel myths, promote facts, highlight progress and regress, discuss recovery ideas, and promote sound [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Environmental costs, Gulf Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina | Tagged New Orleans, Rising Tide
By admin on August 25, 2010
Broadcast journalist Devin Robins, a 2008 Ochberg Fellow, is the new show producer of Marketplace Money, the program’s senior producer, Deborah Clark, announced. Robins was producer/director of the Tavis Smiley Show, Talk of the Nation, and News and Notes. She also worked on a 15-month-long series, “The Changing Face of America.” Most recently she’s been working [...]
Posted in News About Us
By admin on August 24, 2010
2005 Fellow Kate Bramson and her colleagues at the Providence Journal have won this year’s New England Associated Press News Executives Association’s Sevellon Brown Award for public service. The December 2009 article and others reported how a prominent federal prosecutor got pulled over for suspected drunken driving on Thanksgiving weekend, and got off without being charged [...]
Posted in Awards, News About Us | Tagged Kate Bramson
By admin on August 24, 2010
Hollman Morris, the 2009 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow whose intensive reporting on the drug wars in his native Colombia marked him an ally to terrorism by political enemies, is now participating in the Nieman Fellowship program at Harvard. Here’s an interview in the Boston Globe in which he talks about the difficult journey from Bogota [...]
Posted in Hollman Morris, News About Us
By admin on August 23, 2010
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism today announced the recipients of the 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships. This year’s Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships for mid-career journalists interested in improving coverage of violent events go to: Solange Azevedo, Revista Epoca, Sao Paulo, Brazil Cecilia Ballí, Texas Monthly Patrick Farrell, [...]
Posted in Awards, News About Us
By admin on August 19, 2010
John McCusker, a 2009 Ochberg Fellow who with his colleagues at the Times-Picayune won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, has work featured in the National Press Photographers Association show at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The exhibit, “Telling Their Stories: The Lingering Legacy of the Katrina Photographs,” opened this evening and [...]
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By admin on August 9, 2010
Associated Press editor Jim Trotter, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News, has been named the recipient of the Dart Society’s 2010 Mimi Award. The award, which carries a $1,000 cash prize, will be presented to Trotter in September. Trotter said he was thrilled by the news of the award. The Mimi is given annually to [...]
Posted in Awards | Tagged Jim Trotter, Mimi Award
By admin on August 6, 2010
The late, great Jungian mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote that each heroic journey begins with a call to action. For Howard Reich, the call came on the evening of February 15, 2001. For it was on that evening that Sonia Reich, his mother and a Holocaust survivor, packed some clothes into two brown shopping bags, donned her [...]
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By admin on August 2, 2010
2008 Fellow Kelly Kennedy has won the 2010 Bugle Award from the Disabled American Veterans for her work covering burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Army Times as well as for her book, “They Fought for Each Other.” The Bugle Award recognizes outstanding reporting of veterans affairs to the American public. Click here to [...]
Posted in Awards, Books by Fellows, Kelly Kennedy, News About Us, Reporting War
