By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on August 12, 2010
It was just before my mother died, after three days of hard-core deathbed vigil, that the deathbed crew finally took a break and headed to a diner in New Jersey for lunch. I don’t remember what we ate, or if we even could stomach food. But I know we laughed. I don’t remember what the [...]
Posted in Self-care | Tagged black humor, Daily show, humor, Laura Linney
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on August 11, 2010
2008 Fellow Kelly Kennedy was quoted by Joe Strupp in Media Matters criticizing the Pentagon’s denial of the embedding request of Michael Hastings, the reporter whose profile in Rolling Stone of Gen. William McChrystal led to the general’s resignation. “Not allowing Hastings — or any other journalist — to embed violates the military’s own stated [...]
Posted in Kelly Kennedy, Reporting War | Tagged embed, Michael Hastings
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on May 12, 2010
“Breaking News, Breaking Down,” the documentary that 2005 Fellow Mike Walter produced with the Dart Society, will be screened at Cannes on Thursday. Click here to see the trailer. We are incredibly proud of Mike and the film, which was inspired by the society’s project in New Orleans post-Katrina. Led by Natalie Pompilio, a 2001 [...]
Posted in Hurricane Katrina | Tagged Breaking Down, Breaking News, Cannes, Mike Walter
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on May 9, 2010
2008 Fellow Moni Basu returned to Haiti for a week and returned to Atlanta with a list of stories, including this broadcast of Sean Penn on Anderson Cooper on the death of a boy from diptheria. She blogged about the rainy season, gave an update about her wonderful driver, Mariot, and spent time with the [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Haiti Earthquake, Ron Haviv
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on April 28, 2010
Photography by 2003 Fellow Donna DeCesare will be featured as part of the set design for the Off-Broadway play “De Novo,” which opens tonight, April 28, at 59E59′s Theatre C, and runs through mid-May. Images from her project, “Destiny’s Children: A Legacy of War and Gangs” will be projected after each play. “De Novo” is [...]
Posted in Featured Fellows
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on April 27, 2010
Kelly Kennedy, an award-winning military health, medical and science reporter for the Times News Service, will discuss her new book, “They Fought for Each Other.” at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism on Friday from noon to 1:15 p.m. She will offer insights on reporting in Iraq as an embedded journalist with the 26th Infantry in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on April 21, 2010
2006 Fellow Kevin McKiernan is stranded in Belfast, unable to catch a flight to JFK after ash from the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland grounded planes in Ireland. McKiernan doesn’t mind, he e-mailed today: “Loving every minute.” McKiernan is in Ireland with cinematographer Haskell Wexler filming a short documentary about a Donegal sheep farmer who [...]
Posted in News About Us, Uncategorized
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on April 14, 2010
Kim Komenich, the 2006 Ochberg Fellow who won the Pulitzer in 1987 for his excellent coverage of the People Power Revolution in the Phillipines, stopped a bank robbery from escalating Monday at a Wells Fargo Bank in San Jose, Calif. A story Thursday on NPR’s Morning Edition is here. The story in The San Francisco Chronicle, where [...]
Posted in Journalists as Human Beings
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on April 7, 2010
Ron Haviv will give a talk Saturday evening at Fovea Gallery in Beacon, N.Y., about his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti. His images will be on display at Fovea through June 10 and are part of a book, “HAITI 12 january 2010,” published by de.MO. Directions to the Beacon gallery, which has also shown the work of [...]
Posted in Books by Fellows, Covering Catastrophe, Haiti Earthquake, Ron Haviv
By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves on April 5, 2010
Check out the editorial on Dan Grech and the Dart Society’s Invictus gatherings in the recent edition of the Columbia Journalism Review. The layoffs, buyouts, early retirements and fake-cations/furloughs experienced by Dart Society journalists and their colleagues beginning in 2008 were terrifying. Nearly 15,000 journalism jobs were lost in ’09, according to Erica Smith’s excellent [...]
Posted in Invictus
