By Mike Walter on August 29, 2010
When I think back to five years ago, I think about the images. Sure, I remember the searing images of so much pain and suffering, but the lasting images of endurance that came to symbolize Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina are the ones that stay with me the most. I remember my fateful call to [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe, Hurricane Katrina, News About Us | Tagged Breaking Down, Breaking News, Mike Walter
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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 admin on June 29, 2010
For their watchdog project, Fatal Care, Gina Barton (’00) of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and colleagues Crocker Stephenson and Kristyna Wentz-Graff won the Casey Medal in the under-200,000-circ. category. “This team went beyond the story of one child’s death in foster care to discover that 22 additional children died as a result of systemic neglect,” the Casey release [...]
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By The Dart Society on May 27, 2010
Check out the story about Mike Walter’s win at Cannes for Best Short Documentary. Produced by Mike, a 2005 Fellow, “Breaking News, Breaking Down,” was funded by the Dart Society and features the society’s “Target: New Orleans” project, which paired Dart journalists with counterparts at the Times-Picayune. It also tells the story of Mike’s witnessing [...]
Posted in Awards, Hurricane Katrina, News About Us
