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 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 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 [...]
Posted in En español, Hollman Morris, News About Us, Reporting War, Uncategorized | Tagged justicia, visa
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
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 [...]
Posted in En español, Featured Fellows, Hollman Morris, News About Us, Reporting War, Uncategorized
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.
Posted in Featured Fellows
By The Dart Society on May 17, 2010
Check out Moni Basu’s beautiful piece for CNN: Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = { ‘id’: ‘video0′, ‘name’: ‘video0′}; var flashvars = { ‘file’ : ‘http://dartsociety.com//wp-content/uploads/moni.haity.flv’, ‘width’ : ’400′, ‘height’ : ’280′, ‘controlbar’ : ‘bottom’, ‘dock’ : ‘false’, ‘icons’ [...]
Posted in Haiti Earthquake, Moni Basu, Three Acts | Tagged Haiti, Moni Basu
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 The Dart Society on May 6, 2010
Dave Cullen, a 2002 Fellow who published “Columbine” last year, won The Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of “fact crime.” The awards were presented in New York on April 29. “Columbine” took 10 years to write. It delves into why the killers did what they did and how the [...]
Posted in Awards, Books by Fellows, Dave Cullen | Tagged columbine. edgar award, Dave Cullen
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 [...]
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