By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on May 18, 2010
2007 Fellow and board member Margarita Akhvlediani talked recently on the BBC’s Russian Service about the Dart Society and the Dart Center. The segment is about 12 minutes long and is in Russian.
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on April 18, 2010
Kelly Kennedy is an Army veteran who served our country in Desert Storm and Mogadishu. Kelly’s military experience animates every page of her compelling debut book, They Fought For Each Other. A reporter for the Army Times, Kelly developed the book from Blood Brothers, an award-winning multi-media series she did for the paper about the second platoon of I-26, [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on March 10, 2010
This is the first of a number of posts about 2008 Fellow Kelly Kennedy’s recently released book, They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq. An army veteran and an award-winning reporter for the Army Times, Kennedy worked on the stories that became the basis for the [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on March 8, 2010
2004 Fellow and BBC producer Darius Bazargan travelled to Afghanistan recently with presenter Najieh Ghulami to look at the role the Internet plays in people’s lives and how it could develop the country-one so critical to global security. The report includes text and a series of pictures, including one of Bazargan on top of an abandoned Soviet [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on March 5, 2010
UPDATE from Dave Cullen: BTW, the book just came out in a new Expanded Paperback Edition. Here’s what we added: — New 12-page afterword: “Forgiveness,” with startling new revelations. — Actual journal pages from Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold. — Book Club Discussion Questions (also available at Oprah.com). — Diagram of Columbine High School and [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on March 3, 2010
Johanna Schindler, the wife of 2009 Fellow John McCusker, died March 7 from complications of a brain aneurysm. Dart community members and their many friends used a website for people to donate to John and his kids, Ian, Katie and Ellen, and the generosity shown was incredible. The story of what John and his family faced after [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on March 1, 2010
Production company Walter Media, headed by 2005 Fellow Mike Walter, won two Silver Telly Awards and four Telly Awards overall. Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards are the premier awards honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest film and video productions, and groundbreaking web commercials, videos and films. Walter Media received [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on February 25, 2010
2006 Fellow Jenny Manrique-Cortes, a Colombian journalist and contributor to the Spanish-language web site votebien, spoke recently in New York on a panel sponsored by America’s Quarterly about the next generation of leaders in the Americas. Manrique has received death threats for her work, which has exposed violence against women and right wing paramilitary activity. Votebien [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on February 24, 2010
UPDATE: A note from Kristen about the project: You can read the whole thing here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/campus_assault/ The second story is a piece on the paltry enforcement by the Education Department of the federal law known as Title IX; on Friday, a piece about repeat offenders on college campuses will roll out as well. Also, in [...]
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein on February 23, 2010
Evil Reporter Chick, 2008 Fellow Moni Basu’s blog, contains the following poignant post from her recent trip to Haiti after the devastating earthquake. Now with CNN.com, Basu worked previously for many years for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While there, she wrote the eight-part, award-winning series, “Chaplain Turner’s War.” In the blog post, she writes about driver Jean Marie [...]
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