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 Jenny Manrique Cortes on August 6, 2010
Finalmente el concepto por el cual en una primera instancia se le negó la visa americana al periodista Hollman Morris, se fue por el piso. El argumento de que en razón al Patriot Act, Morris no tendría entrada a Estados Unidos por estar supuestamente envuelto en actividades terroristas, fue ampliamente rebatido por un centenar de [...]
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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 Jenny Manrique Cortes on August 1, 2010
Víctimas de la violencia, el abandono y el silencio. La triple condición de los desplazados en Colombia fue retratada la semana pasada en un informe de Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) titulado precisamente “Tres veces víctimas” Aunque en Colombia el tema de la salud mental de los afectados por el conflicto armado, pasa generalmente a un [...]
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By Jenny Manrique Cortes on July 26, 2010
Por: Judith Torrea* Ciudad Juárez, México Son las 11:50 de la noche: He acudido a reportar diez crímenes en menos de seis horas. En todo el día murieron quince personas. En la mayoría de los casos, he llegado antes que las fuerzas del orden a pesar de que para hacerlo he escuchado las claves del [...]
Posted in En español, Getting Personal, Journalists as Human Beings, Reporting War, Self-care, Uncategorized
By Jenny Manrique Cortes on July 12, 2010
Ir en Contravía le ha costado a mi colega Hollman Morris, su tranquilidad. Hace tiempo que este periodista colombiano comenzó a mostrar la cara de ese otro país que pocos quieren ver, a través de su programa de televisión “Contravía” financiado por Open Society. Obnubilada con los logros del gobierno actual, la sociedad colombiana ha [...]
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By admin on July 8, 2010
2009 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow Hollman Morris, an investigative reporter in Colombia, has received his visa from the U.S. State Department. The visa, which Morris had requested to participate in the 2010-11 Nieman Fellowship program at Harvard University, was initially denied on the grounds that Morris presented an international security threat. Here’s the official announcement [...]
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By admin on July 6, 2010
2008 Fellow John Moore covered the disaster on the Louisiana coast during a two-week rotation in May. “This Gulf disaster was one of the hardest stories I’ve done this year, and with the Haiti earthquake, a month in southern Afghanistan, a trip to the prison in Guantanamo Bay and coverage of the new immigration law in Arizona, it’s [...]
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By Jenny Manrique Cortes on June 15, 2010
El pasado fin de semana fue de júbilo aquí en Colombia para las familias de cuatro miembros de las Fuerzas Militares secuestrados desde hace doce años por las FARC. El Coronel Luis Enrique Murillo y el General Luis Mendieta de la Policía, quien ascendió al máximo grado de esa institución estando en cautiverio y era [...]
Posted in En español, Journalists as Human Beings, Reporting War, Uncategorized | Tagged Colombia, farc, Jenny, medios, rescate, secuestrados, show, trauma
By George Hoff on June 12, 2010
The work of nine photographers are on show at this year’s Fotopres at the Caixa Forum in Madrid. It is a moving display of the power of the medium. This year the first prize went to Emilio Morenatti for a series of photos showing the devastating results of “Gender Violence in Pakistan.” Morenatti was seriously [...]
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