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V o n s u o - - n , i d a i s o e h r n e l n n e 1 l - - from the jaws of Katrina while she was KATRINA making landfall. Joshua Norman (’05) of the Sun FROM PAGE 1 Herald, who, along with Keller, stayed in the newspaper’s building, said: “The station transmitter was “The storm was terrifying. There under nine or ten feet of water. We was about an hour when no one was weren’t on the air, but there was virtu- sure whether the concrete roof over ally no one in New Orleans to watch our heads would be sucked off.” After television anyway. So the Web site the storm, Norman went into the small became the path to distribute our cov- towns he covered. “They were isolat- erage. We did get back on television ed, ignored and badly hit,” he said. within three days on another station “I’ll never forget the call I got from a and we put together a network of woman in tears who said she read a regional stations where we knew New quote in one of my stories from her Orleanians were evacuated.” father-in-law. She would not have At the Times-Picayune, James known if he had survived otherwise.” Varney (’89) described “big greasy Like the Times-Picayune, the Sun

guys” walking around the French RAE MORRIS / BLOOMBERG NEWS AVID Herald employees suffered fearsome Quarter with baseball bats and pool D losses even as they continued to put cues, people coming out of smashed out the paper. Reginald Stuart (’71) store windows with whatever they Jay Newton-Small in the Ninth Ward in late September. of the Knight Ridder Co. went down could carry and columns of smoke ris- continued to publish, though half the the hurricane hit, the federal govern- there to help them. The Black Alumni ing from various fires. employees lost their homes. A relief ment could have greatly lessened the Newsletter carried his report: “In 12 Stephanie Stokes (’83), assistant fund has been established to help disaster if it had acted immediately days we found emergency temporary city editor, took her two children, them by four former employees, afterward as a direct enforcer of the housing for about 40 people. We’re three days worth of clothes and their including Bridget O’Brian (’81), a law. People suffered and died because putting them in a flop house down the pet turtle to a friend in Tuscaloosa, Wall Street Journal broadcast news it did not.” road that we’re cleaning up, an RV Ala., and two weeks later joined her editor. For information go to At the Biloxi Sun Herald, Mike park, several residential units and the husband, Times-Picayune Managing www.friendsofthetimespicayune.com Keller (’05) told of two rescuers who TraveLodge down the Interstate. Editor Dan Shea, in Baton Rouge. The The disaster that befell New “pulled 14 people, one a pregnant “Everyone is having to compro- paper was in temporary offices with Orleans, both the destruction by the woman, plus two dogs and two cock- mise from what they had…People laptops on folding tables. They hurricane and the suffering of the pop- atiels from house to house and room need clothes. They need gasoline. enrolled the kids in a Baton Rouge ulation afterward, was examined by J- to room. They fought against water They need new tires. People need day school, then commuted to New School Dean Nicholas Lemann in the and wind, finally breaking through a care. Most of all, folks need someone Orleans when the paper returned . Sept. 26, 2005, issue of The New roof before the house disappeared to talk to. They don’t always admit it. Stephanie Grace (’92) had a Yorker. Lemann, a New Orleans native, under the Gulf of Mexico.” Keller also You have to push them kindly, gently. house that was spared flooding, so it appraised the role of the federal gov- told of a Seatow boat captain who First you have to win their trust, then became a Times-Picayune bureau for ernment and its reluctance to deploy braved 60 plus knot winds and rising assure them it’s okay to cry, to share dispossessed staffers. troops. “Whatever its failings before surge to pull eight live and five dead what’s on their minds, and that you Through it all, the Times-Picayune understand, really understand.” Witnesses to a Storm’s Wreckage and the Trials That Followed

By Michael Keller (’05) By Stephanie Grace (’92) By Joshua Norman (’05) I saw many things during those first 48 hours after the storm that will his is the fourth disaster for spent the storm in Baton Rouge, had been living and working in be indelible and painful memories. me, though only the first as a expecting to work out of the New Biloxi for a little over two months One of the more interesting challenges journalist. I lived through Orleans Times-Picayune’s state when I first heard that Hurricane in reporting this storm happened dur- THurricane Andrew in South Icapital bureau, then head back IKatrina was headed our way. ing the ten-day period afterwards Florida. I worked for New York City home. Instead, the paper evacuated When I heard that the Sun when communications were down. All through 9-11 and I served as a peace- and came to me. Well, not all of it. I Herald’s building would be housing a quotes, descriptions and ideas had to keeper in the aftermath of a very long told the reporting crew that stayed small group of administrators and no literally be gotten via legwork. and brutal civil war in East Africa. I behind to go to my house in New reporters, I figured first that it was safe It was educational to be unable to have no problem saying that I have Orleans and take my bottled water. It to stay there and second that I needed call up stats on the Internet and pick never seen any destruction that rivals turned out that my house also had one to be here for the story, because there up the phone for a quick quote. In that imposed by Hurricane Katrina. of the few reliable land lines left in the would be no way back in for at least addition, deadline was 2 p.m. and Katrina, which I covered for the city, so they decided to move in. 24 hours after the storm. without being able to call in a story, it Biloxi Sun Herald, was only the sec- Meanwhile, my first ventures back After much debate, Mike Keller meant getting up early to get material. ond of my four disasters that was not into the city were surreal, and not just and I decided to stay. The storm itself I have learned a ton in the mile-a- created by people. It was the fourth of because my house had become the was terrifying. There was about an minute reporting that has gone on four that was made worse by humans. Picayune’s New Orleans bureau. A hour when no one was sure whether since the storm started. I was fortu- The forgotten poor and old left to quarter of a city block nearby had the concrete roof over our heads nate in having a sort of “GA reporter” survive and then die, overpopulated burned, because the water system was would be sucked off. The building itself title before the storm. I have written coastal areas, the reluctance of fami- so wrecked that firefighters couldn’t was vibrating and making strange nois- about everything from housing to sail- lies with means to leave unsafe places, es for at least four hours. boats to survival since the storm. the botched efforts of those whose job After the storm, I felt I had to go It is impossible to escape the descriptions are to help. to the town I covered, Long Beach, as weight of the devastation here. There The depravity of people smashing ‘Every person at the well as the small town next door, Pass is nothing comfortable about being each other’s heads open with rocks. paper is heartbroken.’ Christian, because I thought they here, let alone working and living in it. The horrific results of blowing legs off would be isolated, ignored and badly The hardest part is how different with mine warfare. Running fuel laden hit. I was right on all counts. everything has become. planes into buildings where civilians are just trying to earn a living. People do a thing to fight it. Soldiers in cam- stealing shoes and liquor from stores ouflage with big guns roamed the while gale force winds still dangerous- streets. An elderly man who died dur- ly blow storm debris and downed ing the storm was laid out on his power lines. People forging Red Cross front porch under a blue blanket down checks, in effect stealing nickels and the street, a bible verse scribbled on a dimes from children. All of these are sign in the window. One day, I turned signs of a broken society that I see on the car radio and hit scan, and it while I am reporting. just went around, and around, and But, as trite as it may sound at around. There was nobody out there. this point, the resiliency of spirit and Three months after Katrina, it’s quiet courage in the most unimagin- still the only story in town, and as ably stressful times has become that journalists, there’s no distance or dis- relieving exhale of a lighthouse point- passion. Every person who works at ing the way home. the paper is heartbroken. When I As a journalist, it’s part of my job started writing an op-ed column a few to look at the horror and suffering years ago, a colleague warned that it right in the face and try to muster that would be hard to find something to get same courage I see in the best of the bent out of shape about three times a people whom I cover. week. That was Pre-K, as we now say. JOHN FITZHUGH These days, I’m bent out of shape Joshua Norman with a retired firefighter helping in Biloxi. at least three times a day.

2 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www.jrn.columbia.edu CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT The Hard Road to the Big Easy

By Joseph B. Treaster city. Traffic on all lanes on all the main roads is flowing against me: out of the Joe Treaster, a Knight-Bagehot Fellow City. The police have orders to stop in 1995-96, has been a reporter for anyone trying to enter New Orleans. The New York Times for more than 30 Let me check with people here.” years, reporting from dozens of coun- I called back and told Alison the MARKO GEORGIER / THE NEW YORK TIMES YORK THE NEW MARKO GEORGIER / tries and developing something of a consensus in the operations center specialty in covering hurricanes. His was that getting into New Orleans was Joe Treaster with notebook after reaching his destination. effort to outrace Hurricane Katrina to impossible. Still, I was willing to try. New Orleans drew on all his reporto- “Go,” she said. But first, she said I angry official in civilian clothes started There was no one out there, not in rial wiles. should write whatever I had. I wrote a screaming at me and blocking my way. the houses, not on the road. It would top for the main story, and at 3 p.m., I smiled, gave him a friendly wave and have been a terrible place to be strand- s the outer winds of Hurricane Aug. 28, I started for New Orleans. turned in the opposite direction, hav- ed if, say, something went wrong with Katrina were flicking at the It was already late to be trying this ing no idea where I was going and hop- the car. I decided I should slow down. Mississippi Coast, I drove out and I noticed I was low on gas. One ing he was not going to shoot me. Down the road a ways, I had to get to a marina in Gulfport. The A station ran out as I was getting into I came upon a closed convenience up on an overpass paved with lime- Gulf of Mexico was spitting and foam- line. Besides gas, I bought a couple of store. The people inside tried to shoo stone bricks. The car did not like the ing and the sloops and powerboats empty gas cans — which I was unable me away. I told them I had an emergen- bricks. It went into a big, bodacious were thrashing at their moorings. A to fill — and two flashlights that broke cy and that the right thing to do, the slide. I turned the wheels into the father and son were trying to secure the first time I tried to use them. Christian thing to do, was to help me. slide, as everyone has been taught. A their little cabin cruiser. It was already I pulled onto Interstate 10 and One of them opened the door a crack. I white guard rail flashed into my line of too late to make a run inland. We pointed the car west toward New told him I was heading for New Orleans sight. The car did not hit it, but slid in shouted over the roar of their engines, Orleans. A solid line of cars and trucks and needed a map. He said he was out the opposite direction. Somehow I then I headed up the beach to a float- streamed out of Louisiana at a slow of maps and that he had known right straightened the car and kept going. ing casino. Workmen were sandbagging crawl. My side of the highway was away that I was a dumb ass. At the edge of New Orleans, I saw the doors. empty except for a handful of cars and Two local guys came out of the a car rammed into a utility pole. The When I checked in with New York trucks. All of us seemed to be cruising convenience store. I got one of them to driver was slumped over the wheel and in early afternoon, I was in good shape at about 80 miles an hour. I pushed up tell me a way to get to New Orleans. the police were helping him. No one to write our main story on Katrina to 100 miles an hour. I didn’t want to The other one had a map of Louisiana paid any attention to me. from Gulfport. But my plans changed. drive in the dark if I could help it. and New Orleans that was falling apart. I figured I was in New Orleans but I was told to go to New Orleans. In what seemed like a surprisingly I told him I needed that map more I was lost again. And now it really was Actually, I volunteered. short time, I reached the Louisiana bor- than he did. He said he liked his map. getting dark, and there was more rain Alison Mitchell, the deputy nation- der and roadblocks. I pulled over well Then he handed it over to me. and wind. I motioned to a man in a al editor, said the New Orleans airport back from the roadblocks and walked Now I had some idea of where I pickup truck to roll down his window had closed as our reporter was flying across the empty highway to talk with a was going. But it was getting dark, and as we drove along and got him to point there. The hurricane had not turned to police officer in a patrol car from the the wind was picking up. I missed a me toward the Superdome. the north as expected and was heading town of Slidell, just inside Louisiana. He turn and stopped to ask a little cara- His directions were not quite per- straight for New Orleans. We had no was the opposite of what I expected. I van of drivers from New Orleans for fect. But a few minutes later, I was sit- one in the city, and it looked as if no knew the main roads were blocked, I help. After they stopped laughing ting in the rain and looking across the one from The New York Times could said, but I was a newspaper reporter about a fool heading to New Orleans, street at a line of several hundred peo- get there. She sounded as if she was and needed to get to New Orleans. they said they couldn’t help. They ple getting soaked and hoping to take thinking out loud about what to do. To my amazement, he sketched were as lost as I was. shelter in the sports arena. I said, “What about me, dude?” out a back-road route for me on a I drove around awhile, and the My cellphone was still working and “Do you think you can get in?” scrap of paper. I said if I got in trouble road I was looking for appeared. It I phoned Alison: “I made it. I’m at the “Who knows?” I said. “I can try. I might need to phone him, and he turned out to be a lonely two-lane Superdome.” The mayor of New Orleans has gave me his cell phone number. road, lined on both sides by fishing This story orignated in Ahead of ordered a mandatory evacuation of the I thought I was on my way. But at shacks and bayou water. The water the Times, the newsroom newsletter of the first turn on the officer’s map, an was lapping at the pavement. The New York Times. How Katrina Looked to New Orleans Times-Picayune Journalists

By James Varney (’89) pulled a body out of the Convention By Stephanie Stokes (’83) By Wednesday, it was obvious no Center and paraded it down the street one could go home for a long time. rode out the storm in Covington at on a hotel luggage cart while a fter Hurricane Katrina turned After two weeks, we rejoined Dan an old bank, where we planned to Blackhawk hovered above a parking sharply toward New Orleans in Baton Rouge, where The Times- go in the vault if, as it looked like lot and dropped MRE’s and bottled the afternoon of Friday, Aug. Picayune was in temporary offices, ISunday night, the eye came over water, you had the end of days in your A26, my husband, Dan Shea, and I could go back to work. We us. It shaved us to the east, and within hometown. and I weighed where to take our chil- enrolled the kids in a Baton Rouge a couple of hours I was in a boat putter- dren, Catie, 6, and D.J., 9. We all could school and began commuting to New ing through eastern St. Tammany go the fortress-like Times-Picayune neighborhoods flush against the lake building (less than a mile from the and nearly annihilated by the storm. Superdome), where the company gen- ‘No one could go home On Tuesday afternoon I went into erously allows staffers and their fami- New Orleans. The first week had lies to take shelter (as we did for for a long time.’ moments that felt like you were in ‘A Ivan). Or, the kids and I could go to a Clockwork Orange.’ Big, greasy guys friend’s house in Tuscaloosa, Ala., walked around the French Quarter while Dan, a managing editor, stayed Orleans when the newspaper returned with baseball bats and pool cues. behind to put out the paper (as we did there Oct. 10. People came out of smashed store win- for George). Our two-story house in Metairie, a dows with whatever they could carry, We pictured the worst case, stuck mile west of New Orleans, was flooded while columns of black smoke rose with the kids in a darkened, from the 17th St. Canal breach, but it into the sky from various fires. Along hot,unventilated building with dwin- can be repaired. We’ll live in a FEMA trailer in our driveway after Christmas with a photographer, I slept on a park YUNE dling food and drinkable water, sur- bench, in a car, on floors. rounded by floodwaters for days. We so the kids can go back to their old The dry pocket hard against the opted for Tuscaloosa, and the kids and school. Mississippi felt like Stalingrad that week. I evacuated at dawn Sunday. We’re grateful for the friends who Each day would come reports the whole By Tuesday, the worst case had in took us in for five weeks and for our city was going to fill with water. Cops fact occurred, and Dan and the 200 paper for continuing to do remarkable were taking over the Royal Orleans others who had weathered the storm work under extraordinary circum- VID GRUNFELD/TIMES-PICA hotel and setting up strong points on DA at the paper escaped the floodwaters stances. the corners with machine guns. James Varney in Slidell, La., three hours in the back of delivery trucks, getting By Thursday morning, when they after Katrina passed over. out with only inches to spare.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www. jrn.columbia.edu 3 CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT Pakistan Horror

By Sonya Fatah (’05) within an hour it reeked. I put down my pad and pen for the hen I reached night. Army aviation pilots with whom Muzaffarabad, the capital of I flew subsequently told me that their Pakistani Kashmir, two orders on Oct. 8 were simply to visit Wdays after the October 8 the scene of the earthquake and report Sonya Fatah and a Pakistan border guard. The Urdu sign on the Indian side of the border earthquake, the sound of pain hung in to duty. They knew nothing about the says, “We have opened our hearts, not the line of control.” the air. I pitched my tent and slept fit- scale of the disaster. One pilot told me, military and international organiza- brought on by pneumonia is anticipat- fully that night. The Citizens “the sound of people screaming for tions. ed; a few people have already died. Foundation (TCF), a Pakistani Non- help was louder than the sound of the Since then I have spent almost The international media has Government Organization, was setting helicopters rotor blades.” four weeks in Pakistani Kashmir writ- packed up and gone, and the real sto- up a medical camp. They pleaded with Indeed, in Balakot, a once-resort ing for localnewspapers, magazines ries have yet to be told. On Nov. 19 me to help them with the injured who town set in a picturesque valley in the and for some Indian publications as the donor conference in Islamabad were being flown in by helicopter from North Western Frontier Province well. In early November I crossed the raised $5.8 billion towards reconstruc- the surrounding affected areas where (NWFP), life was non-existent. An white line that separates Indian tion costs. But most of that was in village after village had been virtually elderly man stood on the roof of his Kashmir from Pakistani Kashmir at terms of soft and hard loans. leveled. I refused at first, trying to flattened house and vividly recounted Poonch-Titrinot. Commanders who Reconstruction should have been an maintain my distinction as a journal- the sounds of people crying for help had shelled each other for two and a opportunity for real development. ist. But TCF didn’t have a female vol- from under the rubble, voices that half years, and never seen each other, Covering the earthquake alongside unteer, and it was clear that most of stopped calling after three long days. A were shaking hands, crossing into each international journalists in my own the victims were women and children. young girl insisted on showing me her others’ territory and sharing cups of country proved to be an experience. It Some had lost limbs, many had collapsed school building, and where milk tea. On the Indian side, a banner became clear to me that international sustained serious spinal injuries and she last saw the 50 odd classmates hung across the border gate. It read, in journalists, or rather editors, shape couldn’t feel their legs. Unable to whose bodies were pressed under- Urdu, “We have opened our hearts, not news by going after a story before they move, many of the victims lay on neath. the line of control.” know it exists. The story is scripted makeshift blanket beds soaked in their Decomposing bodies have a pecu- Yet, these were political moves before publication; the reporter simply own urine. A 10-year-old boy writhed liar smell; in Balakot you couldn’t engineered largely for public consump- goes after the quotes to complement about screaming in pain — his back wave it away. tion. Which meant it was a perfect the abominable nutgraf. was covered in messy, bloody pus. A The smell was always too strong, a opportunity to investigate further into I am heading back this week for young man’s back was torn open, lay- reminder of maggot-infested bodies the Kashmir saga, the longtime politi- another series of stories, following how ers of skin peeled away to reveal a rotting under the debris. cal struggle that has brought India and reconstruction efforts are moving on fractured spinal cord. A young woman These were scenes from the first Pakistan into three wars. And so I did, the ground, and how Pakistan’s lay motionless, her eyes void of emo- few days in Pakistani Kashmir and for Tehelka.com, an Indian investiga- famously corrupt officials will manage tion. Another girl’s leg had been NWFP, when I was reporting for the tive weekly. with the funds they have. hacked off when a structural beam Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Winter has come early in the Sonya Fatah is a freelance, writ- crashed on it. The wound was infected, Mail. I was reporting on the on-ground northern areas. The snowcap on the ing for The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, the smell of gangrene hung heavy situation vis-à-vis disaster response, mountaintop is spreading lower into among others. around her. The tent was spacious but the role of Pakistani authorities, the the valleys. A second round of deaths Swedish Ambassador Views the Tragedy By Ann Wilkens (’68) But there was only one flight a week was being closed down, were the four ing still smoking wounds in the land- via Kabul and I did not land in bodies found in the water-tank of the scape. It is questionable whether all Ambassador of Sweden to Pakistan Islamabad until five days after the building. We sent the four coffins - the people living in these mountains and Afghanistan quake. From the airport, I went three quite small ones and one bigger- have yet been reached by relief assis- straight to the Margalla Towers apart- sized - home to Sweden with a special tance. When I was back in hen the earthquake ment complex, where one of the high- flight on October 25. Muzaffarabad the other day, together struck on October 8, I rise buildings had collapsed, burying By then I had already been with a delegation headed by the was in Dusjanbe, capital three Swedish children and their around the quake-hit areas of Kashmir Swedish Minister for Development W of Tajikistan. I later read mother in the enormous heap of rub- and the North West Frontier Province. Cooperation, we were told that people in the newspaper that the earthquake ble about to be cleared by search and Here, whole cities were reduced to with unattended wounds from the was felt “in three capitals” (Islamabad, rescue teams. The father had been on rubble and thousands of bodies still quake were still turning up at the field New Delhi, Kabul). This was wrong, it his way from his UNMOGIP (UN oper- buried underneath. In Balakot, per- hospitals. should have been “four capitals”, ation on the Line of Control through haps the worst hit town in Pakistan, The needs are still immense, the including Dusjanbe, where people ran Kashmir) posting in Srinagar, on the people were sitting beside their logistics challenging, winter snow fast out into the streets while the houses India-controlled side, when news of destroyed houses in shock, waiting for approaching. The people in these con- were shaking. However, there was no the quake reached him. He was stand- help to arrive. As from other disaster flict-ridden zones have enormous destruction to speak of, neither in the ing in front of the building, still hop- zones, the eerie silence is the thing resilience and few demands - but this countryside, nor in the capital. ing for his family to reappear. This, that sticks in my mind. time they need our support. Please Since my main work is in however, never happened and only Many of the staggeringly beautiful contribute to the relief and rehabilita- Pakistan, I tried to return as soon as I after almost two weeks of drawn-out mountain sides of the Kashmir river tion! understood the extent of the disaster. torture, just before the rescue work valleys had simply fallen down, leav-

Bagh, one of the towns worst hit, now pain and death and suffering, I see a barely more than a pile of rubble and coming together the likes of which I Rescue Workers on the Move bodies. He tells of bodies piled waist- have seldom witnessed. As I sit here, By Omar Jamil (’04) the colourful pop art adorning the high, and how the stench hit his con- typing out these words, folks from the truck. The driver, a Pathan from the voy 20 miles before they reached the neighbourhood are gathering around ctober 13, 2005. It’s past Northern Areas, is lighting up a town. Most of these bodies were chil- the truck. People who make less than midnight here in Lahore, six hashish joint, preparing for 48 straight dren aged six to twelve. $100 a month are gathering money days after an earthquake hours of driving. It’s strange sitting here, at home, from one another, sending clothes, measuring 7.8 on the Four of the students are members watching such tragedy unfold in what food, trying to help out in whatever O seems like a world away. Entire vil- way they can. Richter scale devastated the northern of the University’s Mountaineering parts of Pakistan. Club and are certified paramedics. lages wiped out, entire generations Perhaps that is the lesson to be I’m sitting in the driveway of my Another four spent the past two days orphaned. Lahore was far enough learned then: that even in the depths house in one of the posh parts of at a local graveyard “training” as from the epicentre to not sustain any of misery, there is hope. town, watching students from the makeshift gravediggers. All in all, a real damage. And we Pakistanis, used Omar Jamil is planning a docu- Lahore University of Management dozen of them are taking time off from to being surrounded by the despair of mentary about the earthquake relief Sciences — Lahore’s answer to academics to head up to some of the poverty, have become masters at inur- effort. ing ourselves to tragedy. Still, the Harvard Business School — load a worst hit areas to volunteer their ser- According to government sources, the truck with food, tents and other emer- vices. shock of it, the sheer unexpectedness, the devastation, makes it hard to Pakistan earthquake killed over 73,000 gency supplies. Under the truck, a One of the students, barely past and left 2.5 million homeless. match flares up, briefly illuminating his teens, only just returned from ignore. Yet even in the midst of all this

4 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www.jrn.columbia.edu Grads Honored For Feature Films Two J-School alumnae have between gangs allied with leftist guer- recently produced significant feature rillas or right wing paramilitaries with films of starkly different themes, back- the innocent population caught in the ground and setting. middle. “Cape of Good Hope” is the Margarita Martinez (’98), an story, the writers say, “about people Associated Press reporter in Bogota, just trying to live. It’s not about black Colombia, and her A.P. cameraman, in and white. It’s not about politics, but the 84-minute documentary, “La about human beings.” Sierra,” chronicle a year in an impov- “La Sierra” profiles three young erished, strife-torn and cruelly danger- adults who symbolize the conflict and ous barrio in Medellin where, as one the hopelessness of those involved — a resident says, “The neighborhood is in 22-year-old “commander” of a right the hands of kids with guns.” wing paramilitary group, a 17-year-old girl friend of one of the group’s jailed leaders, and a 19-year-old “foot sol- dier” in the group. ‘Life in Colombia “Cape of Good Hope,” which cen- and South Africa.’ ters on an animal shelter, features a refugee from the war-ravaged Congo torn between love and asylum in the Suzanne Kay Bamford (’86), a West; a single mother trying to make a Suzanne Kay Bamford and her husband, Mark, for the New York premiere. former television news writer, an on- life for herself and her son; a young air anchor and sitcom script writer, is Muslim couple unable to have children the Grand Jury Award, 2004 Miami Jury Prize for Best Film and Audience the co-writer and producer, with her but desperate to have a family; a Film Festival; honorable mention, Best Award for Best Feature at the Austin husband, Mark Bamford, of “Cape of recently widowed veterinarian, and Documentary, 2005 Sundance Film Film Festival, and Jury Prize for Best Good Hope.”As the title suggests, the the founder of an animal shelter who Festival, and official selection for 2005 Feature Length Film at the Starz film is good-natured and optimistic, seems to relate better to stray dogs Seattle and Los Angeles Film Festivals. Denver Pan African Film Festival. set in Cape Town, South Africa, where than to people. “Cape of Good Hope” won an hon- Both movies had screenings in the Bamfords have lived for the past Both films can boast of an early orable mention, People’s Choice New York and other major cities in five years. round of accolades: Award; at the Toronto Film Festival; November and December. “La Sierra” reports the turf war For “La Sierra,” honors include The Making of ‘La Sierra’

By Margarita Martinez (’98) to negotiate with paramilitary groups killed when she was a baby. The When we felt emotionally and and, to a lesser extent, with guerrillas. mother took the children to live in physically drained from the daily vio- cott Dalton and I had been In the big cities, the war is often invis- another town and her brother got lence, we would go to the beautiful covering Colombia’s war for ible. I found that I could witness a involved with the paramilitaries. The part of this city. Medellín, like the rest the Associated Press for a few shootout in the morning in the neigh- guerrillas threatened the family and of Colombia, is full of contrasts. A Syears, Scott as a photographer, borhood of La Sierra and return to they had to leave for Medellin to save beautiful city with lush nature in and I as a writer. What we saw made Bogotá in the afternoon to dine out at their lives. between mountains, it is also known us want to tell a larger story about the one of the city's finest restaurants in a Cielo was a mother and a widow as the “city of eternal spring” because lives lost, the dreams dashed. quiet and elegant atmosphere. at 15. The father of her child, a mem- of its wonderful climate and blooming Scott and I gained access to one We chose our three characters ber of a gang, also was killed. When flowers. It is both a city of skyscrapers of the paramilitary-controlled sectors, almost from the first trip. we started filming her, she lived with and pleasant urbanity and a city of La Sierra. We set out to portray in Edison chose us, more than we violence. film the war we were witnessing: chose him. He was a killer, a woman- In my work as a journalist, I have young men and women as cannon fod- izer, a paramilitary, but he was also a ‘We faced the same risk known people who were killed. But I der for the warlords. man of dreams. He told us eloquently have never known their families, their In 2003, when we began the film, on film how his hopes were to serve as the people there.’ loved ones or even the victims in a many parts of Colombia were con- the community after the war as a civil personal way. trolled by guerrilla forces, indepen- engineer. It became apparent to us We had met Edison’s teenage girl- dent gangs or paramilitary groups— that he was a born leader, trapped by her in-laws and her partner was in friends, his parents and siblings. At the forces driving the country’s seem- history and circumstance to exercise jail, accused of being a paramilitary the time lots of young men were killed ingly endless civil conflict. his leadership as a paramilitary war- member. in Medellin. But we never anticipated Medellin then was a city full of rior. We also learned that his hopes for Jesus, another of our protagonists, Edison’s death. borders. The violent drug cartel of the change were not remote illusions. His was 19 and had been a gang member One Saturday night, the army early 90’s had put a lot of money and father, a convicted criminal, had seen for years. He had recently lost his came into the neighborhood. Edison weapons into the marginal communi- the path to civic leadership and com- hand making a granade to combat his was a target for the military. As the ties. When the Medellin cartel fell, in munity involvement a few years after enemies. Heavily in drugs, he had a leader of a paramilitary gang, he had the poor neighborhoods, only the a religious renewal. kind of folksy street wisdom. committed many homicides, as he weapons were left. Cielo was the daughter of We worked hard to build trust, to freely admits in the film. President Alvaro Uribe had begun Colombia’s violence. Her father was know the community. We did it with After his murder, I did not want to care, with respect and humor. It did go to the neighborhood ever again. not take much time. Edison loved I would have liked to forget about the the camera and wanted to be filmed, documentary and simply disappear. in a way to be immortalized. It was Only days later they told us that part of his desire to leave his mark. another young guy we had known Maybe that is why he had six or seven from the gang had also been killed. children, with different women and I finally got the courage to go almost all of them in the same year. back months later. Scott convinced At times, we lived in the neigh- me that it was our duty to finish the borhood. We rented a basic brick project. He was right. Our last images house for eight dollars a day, but are the ones of the demobilization of never spent more than four days there the paramilitary block and of a memo- at a time. In the neighborhood, I rial mass with most of Edison’s kids never felt there was a security issue in and girlfriends at his parents’ humble the sense that someone threatened us. house. But there were a lot of stray bullets. In the documentary, a shopkeeper We faced the same risk as the people comments in frustration, “We are in who lived there. the hands of armed children. That is One day, Scott went out to film all the problem.” We agreed, but of the combat between neighborhoods. course, that’s not all the problem. “Get down, gringo,” shouted one of Margarita Martinez with Don Jairo, father of Edison, a central figure in her documentary the guys when the bullets started fly- ing.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www. jrn.columbia.edu 5 tant professor of journalism at reporters must respond to subpoenas BOSTON PANEL Northeastern and former media critic and grand jury questioning. However, for the Boston Phoenix; William Kirtz Justice Lewis Powell’s concurring opin- (’62), associate professor of journalism ion seemed to agree with the minority, at Northeastern; Shelley Murphy, orga- saying a journalist has the right to nized crime reporter at The Boston seek protection if he believes “his tes- Globe, and Elizabeth Ritvo, First timony implicates confidential source Amendment lawyer. relationships without a legitimate need Kravetz, who moderated the talk, of law enforcement.” is pushing for passage of a law in Kennedy said Powell’s opinion has Massachusetts to protect journalists long allowed courts to overlook the from being forced to turn over the fact that the ruling was against shield- names of secret sources, but he and ing journalists. But this changed in others on the panel described it as a 2003 when a federal court judge ruled bitter pill journalists must swallow. against a reporter privilege and “There are not a few journalists claimed that other judges’ repeated who I’ve met in Massachusetts who assertion that such a protection exists actually oppose the efforts to bring a ignored the Branzburg decision. shield law,” Kravetz said. “They basi- “There is some feeling out there cally believe that the First Amendment that [Judge Richard Posner’s ruling] [guarantee of freedom of the press] is has helped contribute to the demise of JAMES W. PINDELL JAMES W. all that we need to protect us in our any notion of a reporter’s privilege in Charles Kravetz, William Kirtz, Shelley Murphy and Elizabeth Ritvo. work.” Kravetz said the First the last few years,” Kennedy said. Amendment generally sufficed for This demise, most of the panel many years, but concluded, “That is agreed, has got journalists backed up clearly not the case in the environ- against a wall. And Bertsche said even ment that we live in now.” passage of a shield law won’t protect Kravetz said there has long been a journalists. A Legal Shield conflict between the First Amendment Kravetz said his bill, which has and the Sixth Amendment’s right of been filed in the Mass. Senate, would the accused to be confronted with the make Massachusetts one of 31 states witnesses against him. However, an in the country with a shield law, and it increasing public distrust of and enmi- would be one of the farthest-reaching, for Journalists? ty toward the media has shifted this including protection of bloggers. tension in favor of the Sixth. Meanwhile, federal shield legislation By Amy Bracken (’03) Sullivan (’92), six seasoned journal- As to why journalists are held in has been filed in the U.S. Senate. ists and media-focused lawyers gath- such low regard today, some panelists Kirtz said he believes federal ast summer the world looked ered at Northeastern University in cited Jayson Blair, the New York Times shield legislation will never pass, and on, wide-eyed, as an American November to discuss the complications journalist found to have fabricated that he might not support the reporter was hauled off to jail of using anonymous sources and sources. Others said media organiza- Massachusetts bill. He said he sees no for withholding the identity of shielding journalists from demands to tions have done too good a job of air- evidence journalism suffers without L ing their laundry. more legal protection. “Are sources a source. Journalists knew this was the reveal them. dramatic tip of a mammoth iceberg. Participating in a two-hour talk But Dan Kennedy cited another drying up? I don’t think so. We don’t A recent panel discussion organized by before a roomful of students, alumni reason for the shift in court treatment have a shield law in Massachusetts. Boston’s Alumni Association showed and journalists, were Charles Kravetz, of the media: a federal court judge’s The Globe seems to be doing okay.” there is no easy solution to obliterate news manager for New England Cable recent assertion concerning a decades- But Murphy, of The Globe, said, one of the media’s biggest problems. News; Robert Bertsche, a journalist- old Supreme Court ruling. “It has never been more difficult than In an event planned by Marianne turned-lawyer; Dan Kennedy, an assis- The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in it is now in dealing with scrutiny by Branzburg v. Hayes in 1972 that the courts .” she said.

court denied review in Floyd’s case that he’s not breaking the law. have a chilling effect on the reluctant F ALL PANEL involving Judith Miller,” said Gora. “There’s the lying exception,” whistleblower?” Rosenstiel asked both “That would have been an occasion for Whitaker said. “I think there’s an lawyers. FROM PAGE 1 us…to persuade the court why it is exception if someone could end up If the law won’t give lawyers a ver- important to give at least almost abso- dead,” he added. dict, then will it be up to the journal- Rosenstiel asked why journalists lute protection.” “Some of the best stories are prob- ists to defend their sources? he asked. should have special status that allows Audience member John Martin of ably from the people who tell stories He added that’s why it was important them to protect a source when an ordi- ABC asked Whitaker if he wished that are illegal to tell,” said Abrams. that Judith Miller go to jail. nary citizen cannot. Newsweek had published the source “Look at Ellsberg and the Pentagon “The message it sends is that jour- Whitaker replied that anonymous that alleged that American soldiers in Papers.” nalists are ready to put themselves on sourcing is a privilege that journalists Guantanamo Bay flushed a Koran “Do you think the Miller case will the line,” he said. should use carefully. down the toilet. He proposed a set of three condi- “It was a very vivid detail that tions for reporters: first, you’re learn- was unremarked upon by anybody ing something you could not discover until Imran Kahn… made hay with it, A Libel Law Refresher otherwise; second, the source has to and there were riots…and ultimately By Jeff Bogart (’64) • Ms. Buckley was an excel- speak off the record; and third, the the government came back and chal- etro New York area alumni lent speaker and described libel source understands the promise is lenged us,” Whitaker said. brushed up on their libel law problems that affect all journal- conditional until your editor agrees A member of the audience asked at a breakfast lecture on Oct. ists. The questions were lively, to Abrams and Gora if they saw any legal M26 given by Susan Buckley, a the point and sometimes theory that could support Whitaker’s partner at the law firm of Cahill, involved personal experience. One man’s spinner is idea there should be more protection Gordon & Reindel, LLP whose practice • I thought the speaker was for a whistleblower than for a govern- focuses on litigation, communications superb and enjoyed it very much. another’s whistleblower. ment spinner. law and the rights of the press. • The libel lesson was great. “The issue to me is, is the source Entitled “Words that harm: A Libel In her talk, Buckley reviewed the credible, not is the source loveable,” Law Refresher for Journalists,” the seven legal elements that she said are there is a legitimate reason for offering Gora said. “One man’s spinner is experimental event, sponsored by the needed for courts to find against a confidentiality. another man’s whistleblower.” Alumni Association, departed from reporter in a libel lawsuit. She also dis- Seemingly surprised by the last “One of the things that I found typical association programs. To make cussed various legal doctrines that condition, Rosenstiel asked Janison, most discouraging about some of the it easier for working alums to attend, it impact decisions in libel cases, includ- the only reporter on the panel, if it press reaction to all this is how politi- was held in midtown New York and in ing the doctrines of substantial truth, were workable. cized it’s been,” added Abrams. the early morning instead of on cam- incremental harm, and neutral “I expect my editor to ask me Rosenstiel asked Janison to pus in the evening. The topic was reportage. [about my sources],” replied Janison respond to Abrams’ complaint. selected for its potential interest to “You can sum the law of defama- emphatically. “You can’t ignore that one of the mid-career journalists. tion in a sentence,” she said. “And the Asked to respond to the same big themes in the wider story in Iraq From the enthusiastic response of sentence is that journalists can be question from a legal standpoint, Gora seems to be Bush-Cheney… cutting the attendees, the event was a success. liable for the publication of a false and and Abrams were less concerned about the CIA and professional types down Among their comments: defamatory statement of fact of and standards in the newsroom than prece- to size,” Jamison said. • Thanks so much for concerning the plaintiff that is pub- dents that would protect journalists in Jeff Bogart (’64) asked whether arranging this morning's event. I lished with some degree of fault and the courthouse, regardless of their implicit in every promise of confiden- found it incredibly useful.Having causes injury.” source. tiality there are two conditions; that the event in midtown and in the Another off-campus event is being “It was a disappointment that the the confidential source isn’t lying and morning was a godsend. planned for February.

6 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www.jrn.columbia.edu I KNEW FRED FRIENDLY not getting both sides of the story. “This instrument can teach, it can illu- Friendly chewed us up and spat us out minate; yes, and it can even inspire. if we slacked on stories. His favorite But it can do so only to the extent that expression was, “To make the agony of humans are determined to use it to decision-making so intense you can those ends. Otherwise it is merely only escape by thinking.” He was an wires and lights in a box.” A Professor intimidating figure, but he had a warm The movie “Good Night, And Good and giving heart underneath that giant, Luck” opens and closes with excerpts foreboding frame. Time and time again from that speech. “Good Night, And in ’71 and ’72, his deep, rumbling, res- Good Luck” was Murrow’s signature with Passion onant voice and passionate delivery closing from almost every broadcast. shook the halls of the J-School. In the movie, Clooney plays Friendly. By Sam Brown (’72) In 1966, Friendly left the presi- He used his CBS connections to Ed Murrow and Fred Friendly were dency of CBS News, angered and bring in the likes of Cronkite, Mike BC — Before Cable. They had never t was the fall of ’71. The country embittered after CBS CEO William Wallace and the best and brightest heard of broadcast consultants, whose was in the throes of the Vietnam Paley refused to air Senate hearings on CBS reporters he could find. Imagine business is to program news depart- War. College campuses across the the Vietnam War. Instead, Paley chose spending two hours one-on-one with ments to maximize ratings and profits. IU.S. were teeming with angry and to air “I Love Lucy” reruns. Friendly Mike Wallace. That was typical of They’d never heard of newscasts violent protests. chronicled the events in his revealing Friendly’s media seminar for our Class with blaring music, obnoxious sound Columbia University was no differ- book Due to Circumstances Beyond of ’72. He taught us how to write, effects, silly sets, gaudy graphics, cud- ent. In a few short months, my class Our Control. report, edit and produce for broadcast dly co-anchors and, of all things, saw the campus consumed with a The team of Murrow and Friendly without sacrificing journalistic integri- tabloid journalism. takeover by militant groups. almost single-handedly brought down ty and ethics. Call me an “old school” journalist. Enter a tall, crusty, passionate the vicious and self-righteous reign of Friendly was responsible for get- I’m proud to be called that. Murrow man who had built his reputation as Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. and Friendly were “old school.” Edward R. Murrow’s ferocious produc- McCarthyism destroyed careers and I wonder what Murrow and er, and later as president of the CBS lives by venomous accusations and A voice that shook the Friendly would say today if they knew witch hunt tactics at Senate commit- how some news organizations hyped tee hearings. He took dead aim at School’s walls. the O.J. Simpson trial, the Scott He instilled integrity and Murrow by calling him a Communist. Peterson trial, the “runaway bride,” In the fall of 1971, as a nervous Jon Benet Ramsey’s death, to name a a work ethic. farm boy from Clarksville, Tenn., I sat ting us some of the first videotape field few. It really doesn’t matter, though. in the Joseph Pulitzer World Room at cameras in this country. Never mind Despite their courage in the face of Columbia University’s Graduate School they shot tape in black and white. adversity, there’s probably not much Network News Division. He was Fred of Journalism. Friendly, the new head Never mind they were cumbersome Murrow and Friendly could do these W. Friendly, who has resurfaced with of the School’s broadcast department with reel-to-reel recorders. Never mind days to stop the endless flood of flash Murrow in George Clooney’s critically and Edward R. Murrow Professor of they’d endured bumps and grinds from and trash, blood and guts journalism acclaimed movie, “Good Night, And Journalism, marched in just as he being jostled around at the national by some news organizations. Good Luck.” probably marched into countless CBS political conventions. We strapped Friendly died March 3, 1998. Murrow, already a legend for his offices, studios, control rooms and those darn recorders on our backs and In my journalistic career, I never riveting radio reporting from London screening rooms while working with headed for the streets of Manhattan to got to meet Murrow. He died six years rooftops during the World War II blitz, Murrow. We all gasped in awe. get stories. We were reporters. We before I arrived at Columbia. But had recruited some of the finest news- In my year at Columbia, Friendly were journalists. there’s one person I’ll never forget. I paper reporters on the planet—Charles taught us passion for our profession. In Murrow’s classic 1958 speech to knew Fred Friendly. Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Harry He instilled integrity and a work ethic. the Radio and Television News Sam Brown is a former award- Reasoner, Andy Rooney and Walter He scolded us, as only he could, for Directors Association convention in winning investigative radio and tele- Cronkite. shallowness and superficiality—and for Chicago, he said about television: vision reporter.

world with so many things to write He Operates about,” he said. “The public wants to know about the medical culture. The A New Alumni Link public wants to know what happens in and Writes a hospital.” hether they live along a directory. For instance, Law School According to Vice Dean David rural route or in a cultural grads can find friends from the B- By John Celock (‘04) Klatell, while Friedman’s decision to mecca, Columbia alumni School . College grads can search for take a year off from medical school to all over the globe now and contact GSAS alumni. come to the J-School is unusual, he is W very August, J-School students have new ways to connect, communi- Behind the new directory is a hardly the only doctor in the school’s journey out to the neighbor- cate and contribute their ideas. more cohesive approach to alumni ser- alumni ranks. Klatell recalls a class, hoods of New York to button- The newborn online alumni direc- vices across all Columbia schools—the which had several radiologists among hole district managers, com- tory, launched in November, allows primary mission of the new Columbia E its members, and, he noted, other munity leaders, small business owners you to keep your contact information Alumni Association (CAA). Until graduates went to medical school after and those who need a voice. In the free of cob- recently, heat and humidity that is August in webs. With a Columbia’s New York, students work hard and are few clicks, you alumni pro- tireless in their pursuit of the perfect ‘I am in this really could update grams were beatnote. Hardly what one would your profile largely the think of as a break. interesting world.’ with current purview of the For Alex Friedman, ’04, trying to whereabouts individual get a state senator in East Harlem to and passionate schools. The their year in Morningside Heights. talk was a break from the usual life interests begin- CAA will sup- Klatell advised Friedman on his and death decisions, which encom- ning November port, enhance master’s project, which was on selec- passed his normal day at school. 15th. All alum- and connect tive reduction. In that process a Friedman came to the J-School follow- ni will be listed with the latest infor- these efforts. woman decides to abort one or more ing three years as a student at Mt. mation on file. To update information, Headed by Trustee Stephen Case fetuses, which are implanted following Sinai College of Medicine and he add notes or hide specific details, sim- ’64CC, ’68LAW, the CAA is actively in-vitro fertilization, leaving the returned to Mt. Sinai after his gradua- ply go to alumni.columbia.edu/directo- seeking alumni input. “Columbia healthy fetus in place. tion to complete his final year of med- ry, create an active ID and password, alumni are helping us to develop a full Klatell said, “Because he was a ical education. He is now in residency and start editing. continuum of services and activities, medical student and he had access to at Brown University hospital. In January 2006, alumni can also relevant whether they graduated last the doctors, the patients and the hos- “I really love writing and want to search for, and contact, grads across May or 50 years ago,” said Alumni pital suites, he had a great advantage.” do something semi-professional with schools and years of graduation via the Relations Vice President Eric J. Furda. Friedman’s topic of selective it,” he said. “The Columbia program reduction grew from of his choice of and its reputation and its length obstetrics and gynecology as a medical to do a crash c-section. It’s fun.” said. “The head came out first and the appealed to me.” specialty. While many in this specialty Within his chosen specialty, doctor is coaching me. The head is A 1999 graduate of New York have been switching specialties or Friedman is leaning towards working slippery and I went to grab it and the University with a degree in history, leaving medicine altogether in recent specifically with women with high-risk doctor told me not to put my fingers in Friedman hails from Greenwich, years, due to rising malpractice fees in pregnancies. While he said he is lean- and I sprang back. I pulled the baby Conn. He has had his sights set on a this area, Friedman developed the ing towards this one challenge, he is out and clamped the cord and handed medical career, where he believes he interest delivering babies during his also considering specializing in gyne- it off to the pediatrician. I go over for a can help the public, for a while. The third year of medical school. cological oncology, in order to fulfill look and there was a scratch near the writing interest began to develop at “It is an exciting specialty,” he his interest in surgery. eye. It was my untutored hands that the NYU student newspaper, and he said. “It is 9 PM and you are sitting Friedman said he is not scared off scratched him. Thankfully it was noth- sees his unusual educational path as a down to dinner and all of a sudden a by his chosen field’s pitfalls or his own ing permanent.” way to combine the two. patient is not doing well and you have experiences from his first delivery. “I am in this really interesting “The first delivery was scary,” he

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www. jrn.columbia.edu 7 WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Framing a Life in Photography By Pete Johnston (’50) later was resuscitated), he started and ran his first custom publishing compa- efore John Shearer went to ny, Shearer Visuals, which for several Columbia and ran the years designed and produced special- Journalism School’s photojour- ized print projects. Bnalism program, he was an Still, he developed the school’s accomplished international photogra- photojournalism program from a pher. neglected club into a three-credit At age 17 he became a staff pho- course that provides photos for the tographer for Look magazine. Learning Bronx Beat newspaper and the school’s A Shearer photo of a young Ali John Shearer from the world’s best, he soon was Columbia News Service. He left publishing pictures in Life magazine, Columbia in 1986 and started a series and other publications such as of media-oriented jobs. The Shearers started Image worked for Merrill Lynch, the invest- Harper’s Bazaar and Paris-Match. His Currently, Shearer owns and runs Partners as partners in 1995, with ment firm, capitalizing on his expertise camera took him all over the country the second of his custom publishing John handling the creative end mainly, in photography, graphics and publish- and the globe. He covered all kinds of companies. Called Image Partners, the and Marianne overseeing the business ing. subjects, from Paris fashions to street small firm roughly replicates the earli- end. Last year, with the company and Nowadays, writing and the photo gangs, from the civil rights movement er Shearer Visuals: It designs and pro- her children doing well, Marianne exhibits command increasing attention to celebrities like the boxing champ duces customized magazines, annual accepted a job offer in development at from Shearer. Although his writing has Muhammad Ali. reports and other print projects for Fordham. been overshadowed by his photogra- Civil rights was a particularly sig- organizations (e.g. The Urban League) John Shearer is a rather tall, trim phy, he’s proud of it and never fails to nificant subject for Shearer, and his and commercial firms (e.g. Citibank). man with black hair and light black mention it when discussing his career. news photos of the subject were Recently he has revived his inter- skin. He’s an energetic and versatile It started early. among the most widely published. As a est in his own photographs, and has workaholic, a creative thinker who’s He wrote his first book after his black person he came to know many mounted a major traveling exhibit of sharp about communications technolo- Life job ended when the magazine died of the movement’s leaders — among his Look and Life work, which is spon- gy, and confident about his work. His in 1972. It was about minorities, and them the Black Panthers and members office/work space is large and lined he traveled the country collecting of the Rainbow Coalition. with computers, pictures and evidence information for it. Then came books He was the only photographer ‘I was lucky. I had some of projects, past and in progress. for kids: the first was called I Wish I allowed inside Attica Prison in upstate Shearer’s talent began to emerge Had an Afro; it was followed by a New York when protest riots erupted great mentors.’ in high school. He won prizes in pho- series of mysteries starring young Billy in 1971. He was the pool photographer tography contests, which attracted Joe Jive, which was used as the basis and his pictures appeared in the news attention and encouraged him to put for features on the PBS television show media everywhere. sored by Time Warner, and a few on his first show. He caught “Sesame Street.” Shearer teamed with “I was lucky,” Shearer, now 58, smaller exhibits of his other pictures. Rothstein’s eye at Look, which later his artist father, Ted, who did the illus- said during a recent interview at the He also is writing two more books, sent him on scholarship to a photogra- trations. custom publishing firm he owns and illustrated with his photographs: One, phy program at the Rochester Institute For the immediate future, Shearer directs — his second such company. “I motivated by the success of his of Technology. plans to juggle writing with his pub- had some great mentors, like the well- exhibits, is about the restive 1960s “I attended classes three days a lishing and photo exhibits. He expects known photographer Gordon Parks, and is called An American View. The week,” Shearer explained. “The rest of the exhibits to flourish, probably tour- and my boss at Look, Arthur other, mainly artistic pictures of the time I took pictures for Look. I ing abroad as well as at home. Rothstein. Gordon knew my father nudes, is called Light Waves and the flew back and forth between New York Shearer is somewhat surprised at Ted, an artist, and got me started in text is about, as Shearer puts it, “life and Rochester upstate.” the success of the exhibits. photography as a kid. He also intro- and relationships.” Although his active field work as a “It started a couple years ago as a duced me to all the top photogra- His company is in Katonah, NY, a professional photographer plummeted small local show,” he explained, “but it phers.” village an hour’s drive north of as he got older, Shearer has kept got good media coverage. Guys at Time Shearer brought all that talent and Columbia. Shearer lives in Katonah graphics and design as part and parcel Warner saw some of the reviews and experience to the School in 1974, and with his wife, the former Marianne of his various jobs. After Columbia and mention of Life magazine, which of shared them with the students for the Kellogg, and their two teenage chil- Shearer Visuals, for example, he was course was published by Time, Inc. next 12 years. He taught as a part-time dren. The couple met at Columbia an art editor for the Sunday magazine They contacted me and expressed adjunct, because his own photography, when Marianne ran the Journalism of The New York Times. Then he interest in a traveling exhibit. It book writing and graphics work kept School’s Admissions Office in the became editorial director for IBM’s caught on, and the project has been him busy. After Life folded in 1972 (it 1980s. custom magazines. For a while he even growing ever since. You never know.” Auerbach: First Mother in the J-School By Sylvia Auerbach (’60) editor-in-chief, a graduate librarian, Arrive at the J-School at 9 a.m. sharp. quit in a big huff one day. I became Stretch your mind, write, write, write, an youthful dreams come the editor as I took over her responsi- suffer until your papers are returned, true? In my case, yes. When I bilities—but without the title and, sharpen your skills, and learn a lot was a student at the needless to say, the salary. No chance from the best and merciless professors. CPhiladelphia High School for of becoming the editor-in-chief, It was killing—and I loved every stress- Girls, I heard of Columbia’s Graduate because I was not a librarian. ful minute of it. School of Journalism, and I dreamed of Maddening. There were, I think, 10 women in going there. But as my high school Then, a lovely woman named the class, all in their twenties, except counselors told me, that was impossi- Helen Slade Sanders, who had been me. All of us were determined to break ble. Journalism was a man’s field; one of the few female trade magazine out of the box of writing about home, women couldn’t stand the pace, the editors, established a fellowship for a family, and styles. stress, and the potential dangers. Of woman at the J-School. I figured I was At a later reunion, I was intro- course, no women were allowed at the too old (39). I already had one son in duced to a new student as the first J-School. Forget it. And I did. high school and another about to enter mother to attend the J-School. She But the spark still smoldered. college, but I applied anyway. My col- looked at me in surprise and said, “But Many years later, having been an lege-bound son left for freshman orien- you look so well-preserved.” I tried to army wife, a secretary, a worker on a tation the day I went up to the J- smile, but I had a vision of myself on a factory assembly line, a truant officer, School for an interview. As he waved shelf in a bottle of formaldehyde. goodbye, he said, “Goodbye, Mother. I I’ve been lucky. What I learned at a comparison shopper, etc., I nibbled Sylvia Auerbach on graduation day. again on my ambition to work in pub- hope you get into the college of your the J-School led to varied editorial lishing. I landed a job as an “editorial choice.” jobs, five books published, teaching at assistant” (accurate description: secre- I did, and it was one of the best shirts come back from the laundry?” three universities, satisfying work, and tary and coffee gofer) on the staff of years of my adult life. Before 7:30 “Did somebody walk the dog?” much fun. I still freelance, I’m writing the Library Journal, and got promoted a.m., wife and mother: “Moooother, did Then, forget domesticity. Run for a memoir, and I have no plans to to managing editor fairly quickly. The you see my lunch?” “Honey, have my the bus, squeeze into two subways. retire.

8 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www.jrn.columbia.edu President’s Column Book Shelf hat should be the role of To increase the involvement of the J-School’s Alumni younger alumni, consideration should 1952 the revised and expanded paperback Association (AA)? Every be given to adding to the AA’s existing edition of INTO THE BUZZSAW: Howard J. Langer has written The organization should alumni awards a special “up-and-com- Leading Journalists Expose the Myth W Vietnam War: An Encyclopedia of review its mission and activities peri- ing” award for recent graduates. of a Free Press. The hardback version Quotations (Greenwood Press, 2005), odically. Ours is no exception. To build stronger awareness of the won the National Press Club’s Arthur a story of the Vietnam War told The AA’s current mandate, set Association and a stronger alliance Rowse Award for Press Criticism and through quotations in chronological forth in our constitution and bylaws, is between the alumni and student body, was selected by the New York Public sequence. An independent scholar and “to organize the alumni . . . for the an event might be held at the end of Library’s Books to Remember commit- editor, Langer previously wrote purpose of advancing the interests and the school year to help students find tee as one of the 25 most extraordi- America in Quotations: A promoting the welfare of the Alumni, jobs. An annual AA scholarship should nary titles of 2002. the journalism profession, journalism be funded; with current tuition at Kaleidoscope View of American education, and the Journalism $38,000 and total yearly expenses History (Greenwood, 2002). Joel Dubin has written The Little Black Book of Computer Security School.” reaching $60,000, even an 1961 Is the stated purpose still amount as small as $1,000 (iserieswnetwork publishers). appropriate? Are existing would be helpful. Elaine Yaffe has written Mary Valerie Wilson Wesley has written activities good enough, or For greater visibility, Ingraham: Her Two Lives (Frederic C. Playing My Mother’s Blues (William should more be done? more about the AA’s activi- Bell Publisher, October 2005) about Morrow, March 2005), a contemporary The AA’s Executive ties should be reported in the notable 20th Century feminist and story about mother-daughter relation- Committee spent some time the Alumni Journal. educator who was president of ships in an African-American family. considering the Association’s The Executive Radcliffe College during the sixties, role. Here is a composite of Committee should seek to dean of Douglass College, special assis- 1983 their reflections: stimulate increased on-line tant to the president of Princeton, and Esther Iverem has written Living in The AA should, as an communication with and the first woman to serve on the Babylon: Poems and Performances organization representing graduates of among class members but be careful to Atomic Energy Commission. (Africa World Press, 2005) which a prestigious journalism institution, avoid e-mail in-box clutter. Setting up shows that there’s no separation become more involved with issues on-line discussion rooms that alumni 1963 between the personal and the political. affecting the journalism profession. It can access whenever they wish, Dennis Redmont is the co-author of a should serve as a resource for improv- achieves both ends. new book Mass Media e Nuova 1985 ing the profession. For still more involvement, estab- Europe (Mondadori, 2005). It is a Yolanda Joe has her third Georgia The Alumni Journal should lish groups within the Association that study of emerging media patterns in Barnett mystery, Video Cowboys. In include more about issues and an appeal to the varied interests of J- the countries of “New Europe,” includ- this book, the attractive African- opinion page, including commentary School grads. And find distinguished ing new and prospective members of American Chicago TV journalist finds written by a graduate on a key issue, alumni for a speaker’s bureau. the European Union. Redmont is cur- herself in the center of a big news followed by reader reaction. Also, a Wow! Who would have predicted rently coordinator of a program by the story when she and her cameraman second annual panel focusing on so many powerful ideas would surface! foundation of Italy’s largest bank, are taken hostage by a bomb-wielding issues, like the existing Fall Meeting, How does that compare with what Unicredit, which trains emerging man demanding that local authorities should be added. alumni in general perceive to be the young media leaders. The AA may be in a period of Association’s role? You probably have search for his missing daughter. transition, as with the experiment with your own view of what the Association 1973 Craig Marberry’s Cuttin’ Up was pub- off-campus events, but it should be should or should not be doing. Laurie Becklund has written Between lished by Doubleday in May. It cap- careful not to lose the emphasis placed Well, let us hear from you! You tures the culture of the barber shop on existing programs, which are basi- can address your views to me via the Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of and illustrates the lives and conversa- cally good and do not need major J-School’s Alumni Relations Office; or tions of barbers and their patrons, change. More activities can be added, better yet, e-mail them to me. I will Saddam (Gotham, October 2005) with Azinah Salbi. It is a memoir of Salbi’s male and female, from Detroit to but there is ultimately a limit. To do share your views in the next Alumni Orlando and Brooklyn to Houston. more, the Executive Committee Journal issue or on the Association’s life growing up in, and escaping from should call on alumni volunteers. web site. Saddam Hussein’s inner circle. Alecia McKenzie has had two new books published — Stories from Yard, The AA’s visibility before alumni 1977 and students should be increased. Alumni Reunion and Spring a collection of short stories set in Alumni outside of New York City espe- Meeting April 21-23, 2006 Marialisa Calta has published a par- Jamaica and the U.S., and Doctor’s cially appear to have little knowledge enting/cookbook Barbarians at the Orders, a novella for teen readers. of the Association. The Executive Plate: Taming and Feeding the Alecia is a past winner of the Committee needs to offer alumni more Commonwealth Writers Prize. End Notes: Modern American Family (Perigee, opportunities for involvement in the June 2005) for which she traveled Local chapters: Hats off to 1990 organization—not just through more around the country interviewing work- Marianne Sullivan, (’92), for getting activities but through participation in ing parents about how, why and what the Association’s new Boston chapter Stephanie Gutmann has written her running the organization. they manage to put on the table for up and running. Meanwhile, the second book, The Other War: Israelis, Ways of increasing Alumni family meal. Association’s Washington, D.C. chapter Palestinians and the Struggle for involvement include allowing a group is being organized by Fran Hardin, Media Supremacy (Encounter Books, to run an event like the Fall Meeting, Lydia Chavez published an edited col- (’77), with plans for a panel in April. Cuba, Capitalism, God, September 2005). It has received good holding more midtown breakfasts, lection on and a Good Cigar; Cuba Enters the reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, the stimulating formation of J-School Jeffrey D. Bogart, (’64), is president Twenty-first Century Wall Street Journal and the New York alumni chapters or clubs and, where . (Duke of the Alumni Association. He can be Sun. that is not possible, encouraging alum- University Press) reached at [email protected]. ni involvement in the university’s 1980 1994 regional clubs. Term limits should be set for Executive Committee members. Guy Garcia’s book, The New William Friar has published his third Mainstream: How the Multicultural book, Moon Handbooks: Panama. consumer is Transforming American (Avalon Travel Publishing, 2005) ALUMNI JOURNAL, Winter 2006 Business has been published by 1997 Columbia University Journalism Alumni Association Harper Collins/Rayo. 2950 Broadway, New York, New York 10027 (212)854-3864 Urania Mylonas co-edited Captured: [email protected] Leon Hadar, a research fellow in for- A Lower East Side Film & Video eign policy studies at the Cato THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION JOURNAL COMMITTEE History (Seven Stories Press, May Institute, has just published Jeffrey Bogart (’64), President Edward Silberfarb, Editor 2005), which tells the story of film and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Tami Luhby (’97)), First Vice President Judith Aita video in the artists’ own words. Over Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan) Judith Bender (’64), Second Vice President Pete Johnston 100 contributors discuss the early Max Nichols (’57), Secretary Kevin McKenna (’77) Jill Nelson has written Finding years with Allen Ginsburg, Andy Tami Luhby Keith Goggin (’91), Treasurer Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans Warhol, Jack Smith, Taylor Mead, and Max Nichols Andrea Sachs (’83) at Home on the Island (Doubleday, Jonas Mekas as well as the wild ‘70s Marianne Sullivan May 2005). “Nelson . . . offers an inti- and ‘80s. mate look at Martha’s Vineyard where EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE generations of African-Americans have 1998 Judith Aita (’79), John Celock (’04), Judith Crist (’45), Dorothy Davis (’77), Wayne Dawkins lived, worked and played year-round (’80), June Erlick (’70), Frances Hardin (’77), Pete Johnston (’50), Marcy Kerr (’79), Judith Alice Sparberg Alexiou has written or for a summer,” according to Leynse (’62), Eve Orlans Mayer (’52), Amy Resnick (’90), Jacqueline Rivkin (’88), Edward Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, which Silberfarb (’52), Marianne Sullivan (’92) Publishers Weekly. will be published in Spring 2006 by 1982 Rutgers University Press/Harper PRODUCTION: Ted Phillips (’03), Craig McGuire (’98), Gloria Sturzenacker (’78) Collins Canada.

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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www. jrn.columbia.edu 9 Obits 1937 Class Notes Fred J. Pannwitt, a former asso- ciate editor of the Chicago Daily 1951 for open space and recreation, and France-Presse. News, died Oct. 27, at the age of received the New York-New Jersey James Boylan has written a profile of 90. Pannwitt worked for The Baykeeper award for grassroots 1977 former dean Carl Ackerman as part of Associated Press for five years in activism. the “Living Legacies” series for Ti-Hua Chang is a general assignment Chicago, Detroit, and Grand Columbia magazine. Richard Levine was appointed to the and investigative reporter at WCBS- Rapids, Mich., before returning to new position of vice president of news TV, New York. Columbia as an assistant profes- James Sunshine has moved from and staff development at the Wall sor of journalism. He volunteered Tiverton, R.I., to Kendal-at-Oberlin, a Through her company, the Diasporan Street Journal. Levine was previously for the U.S. Navy in 1944 and retirement center near Oberlin College, Touch, Dorothy Davis is currently vice president and executive editor of served as a communications offi- Ohio. He ended a 45-year career at the working on a research project on the Dow Jones Newswires. cer on the USS Redstart Providence Journal in 1995. African Diaspora for the Ford minesweeper off Japan. 1964 Foundation and writing a book about He began work for the 1952 her experiences growing up in the for- Herbert Kestenbaum retired after 31 eign service. Her late father is Griff Chicago Daily News in 1946, ris- Hal Douthit, chairman of Douhit years from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Davis (‘49). She recently joined the J- ing to become Associate Editor, Communications, hosted a reception During his 40-year career he also School’s Alumni executive committee. Editorial, before retiring in 1977, for fellow J-School graduates in the worked at the Providence Journal. a year before the Daily News Cleveland area. Frederick Kempe has returned to closed. He was President of the New York to assume the position of James S. Keat, former assistant manag- 1967 Chicago Press Club in 1969. assistant managing editor, internation- ing editor of the Baltimore Sun, is vice president 1941 Michael Maidenberg al, at the Wall Street Journal. received the Distinguished Service and chief program officer of the John Award from the Maryland, Delaware, Barbara Pierce and CBS News won Arnold A. Lerner died Oct. 11. S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Washington, D.C. Press Association on the Emmy for investigative journalism He retired from IBM as director Miami, Florida. The Foundation is a November 4, 2005 “for extraordinary in a regularly scheduled newscast for of communications in 1986 after major underwriter of journalism pro- service and dedication benefiting our its stories on the Enron audio tapes. a 30-year career. grams. association and the newspaper indus- 1978 1944 try.” 1969 Hester Fuller is now back teaching in Robert I. Weil, retired Los Ted Stanton has been named associ- Amy Stone is in China, working at the northern New England. After 20 years Angeles Superior Court judge, ate director of development of the Shenzhen Daily with fellow alumnus in radio and independent audio pro- died on August 13. He was 83. University of Houston School of Ranajit Dam (‘04). duction in Vermont, Fuller returned to Weil started in journalism editing Communication. He has been at the Boston and earned an Ed.D from his school newspaper at Los university since 1982 after 27 years as 1972 Harvard in 2002 and worked at WGBH Angeles High School. After gradu- a newspaper reporter and editor. Sam Brown, a TV and radio news Interactive on assorted new media ating from UCLA, Weil worked 1963 anchor and investigative reporter, has projects. At WGBH Fuller was part of briefly as a reporter in Ventura joined Knowledge Source, a Knoxville- the team that won a British Academy before enrolling at the J-School. Paul Boyd received a Ph.D. from based company that recruits candi- of Film and Television Arts Award for His work as a journalist took him Rutgers University in 2005. He has dates to teach English in Asia. Commanding Heights online. to Europe where he reported for also founded and chairs his town’s the Associated Press before environmental commission, cam- Peter Frishauf founded Jonathan Oatis has moved to returning to the United States to paigned successfully to save 85 acres Medscape.com, a major educational Bangalore, India, to train and manage attend USC law school. website for doctors. a new global team that is part of joined The Times in 1959 and cov- , a Seattle and nation- Reuters’ editorial operations. 1945 Andrew Schorr ered the Middle Atlantic states for al health radio talk show host, founded Sydney Rubin sold her Washington, Otto W. Glade died September many years before retiring in 1989. www.healthtalk.com, a major website D.C.-based public relations/public 18 at the age of 83. While Glade At his death, he was editor of The for seriously ill patients. He recently affairs firm, Ignition Strategic studied to be a teacher he found Washington Spectator, a twice- secured a New York agent for his book Communications, to Chandler Chicco his real vocation in journalism. monthly political newsletter. Patient Power: How to Get the Care Agency. She founded the firm, which You Need and Deserve. After receiving his degree from 1955 specialized in technology and health the J-School, he worked as a 1973 care, after returning from Paris where reporter and editor on newspa- Philip Robbins, a leading authority she was a correspondent for The pers in Massachusetts and New on the First Amendment and free- Gerry Aziakou is UN correspondent Associated Press. Jersey. He was a news writer for dom of the press, died of pancreatic for AFP in New York. E.R. Shipp has joined the Hofstra NBC in Washington and New York cancer on Oct. 13. He was 74. University faculty as an associate pro- before going to work for Esso in Robbins began his career as a Lena Williams retired from the New fessor in Journalism, Media Studies, 1954. He worked in communica- reporter for the Baltimore Evening York Times in October after three and Public Relations. tions and public relations for Sun. He moved to the Hopewell decades as a reporter. Exxon for 29 years before retiring (Va.) Daily News as city editor. 1974 Michele Wolf is the manager for edito- in 1983. After retirement he edit- Then, Robbins became the assistant rial copy at AARP The Magazine. ed the newsletter of the Exxon city editor and later metro news edi- Joann Lee became chair of the Memorial Annuitant Club and tor at the Washington Evening Star Communication Department, William 1979 also served as president. He is in Washington, D.C. He taught jour- Paterson University, N.J. in September. Will Joyner is editor of Harvard survived by his wife, Marian, and nalism at George Washington Divinity Bulletin, which recently was three sons. 1975 University, until 1995, then served reformulated into a general interest as the ombudsman for the Stars and 1947 David Heim has left Consumer magazine on religion and public life. Stripes newspaper for overseas mili- Reports magazine after 28-1/2 years, Anyone interested in receiving the Mary Paterson Kester died tary personnel. He was awarded the most recently as deputy editor for spe- magazine can e-mail Will at will_joyn- September 15 at Manor Care Knight International Press cial sections and just accepted the [email protected]. nursing home in Wilmington Fellowship with the International associate editor’s job with Fine Drusilla Menaker moved from daily (DE) after a lengthy illness. She Center for Foreign Journalists, trav- Woodworking. was 81. Kester worked in admin- eling to emerging democracies to journalism to international develop- istrative capacities at Brown improve the standards of a free and 1976 ment, working with an international University, the University of open media. nongovernmental organization IREX to Jerry Berger is director of media rela- Rochester and St. Mary’s College design and implement programs sup- 1961 tions at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical of Maryland and St. Mary’s City porting media independence from the Center, Boston. Balkans to the Middle East. (MD). She also was active in the Karl Abraham died on October 15. League of Women Voters in both He retired in 1994 as the public Victoria Ellington is editor of the 1980 Delaware and New York State. affairs officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Affairs Journals in London. She was preceded in death by her Regulatory Commission after having The journals cover the global regula- Adlai J. Amor was elected a Fellow of husband Gordon Kester (’47). been the science writer for the tion, including primary legislation, the American Association for the She is survived by two daughters Philadelphia Bulletin and several governing pharmaceuticals and medi- Advancement of Science “for exten- and a son. other newspapers. He credited the cal devices. sive work as a media trainer in the international arena and for focus on fellowship program in science writ- Ruth Jones has worked for the 1950 science communication as a journal- ing at Columbia with launching his American Red Cross disaster commit- ist.” Ben A. Franklin, a longtime career in writing and reporting on tee. She lives in Charleston, W.V. national correspondent for The science and technology. He is sur- Mimi Chen has been named midday Michael Strauss recently became New York Times, died in vived by his wife, Mickey, and two announcer at KCSN-FM in Los chief correspondent in Paris for AFX November. He was 78. Franklin sons. Angeles. Because her work hours are News, the financial wire of Agence during school time, she is able “to be a

10 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www. jrn.columbia.edu Boston Globe, is a visiting scholar at Excellence” award for daily news from Tim Loughran is training to be a NOTES Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. the National Association of Black newspaper publisher in Richmond, He is writing a book on urban sprawl Journalists. His story, “SCLC in Va., with Nuevas Raices, a Spanish- FROM PAGE 10 and smart growth to be published in Conflict,” was about current problems language weekly serving the Latino Spring 2006 by John Hopkins plaguing the Southern Christian and Hispanic-America populations of stay at home mom for her kids.” University Press. Leadership Conference, a civil rights the state. He spent 10 years covering organization founded by the Rev. civil war and human rights abuses in Wayne Dawkins has joined the faculty Carolyn Boulger Karlson was named Martin Luther King Jr. and others. Central America, economic and politi- of the Scripps Howard School of dean of graduate studies at the College cal turmoil in Mexico and Argentina. Journalism and Communications at of Notre Dame of Maryland. Dr. 1989 Hampton University. Karlson is the author of a newly pub- Tara Sutton won Amnesty Matt Driskill was promoted to editor- Elisabetta di Cagno won the lished book, Writing and Presenting a International’s Award for human rights business Asia for the International Steinbeck award for best writing non- Business Plan (Thompson- reporting in the television news cate- Herald Tribune. He is based in Hong fiction from Southampton College SouthWestern Publishing). gory for her reporting from Falluja Kong. during the April 2004 battle there. where she just completed course work Charlotte Golar Richie was one of 11 for an MFA in creative writing. former Peace Corps volunteers recog- Alex Rothenberg joined the Wall Katherine Yung, who writes for the Street Journal as a copy editor in Beth Weinhouse is the editor-in-chief nized for her service with the Franklin Dallas Morning News, was a finalist for August 2005 after more than five years of Conceive, a new national magazine H. William Award. She was a volunteer the Livingston Awards for Young at Bloomberg. for women who hope to start or in Kenya from 1981 to 1983. In 1999 Journalists. Richie was named chief of housing for expand a family by natural concep- Kimberly Winston won an American the City of Boston. 1990 tion, fertility treatments and/or assist- Academy of Religion award for the recently received her ed reproductive technologies, or adop- 1986 Patricia Gras best in-depth reporting on religion for tion. The magazine won a Florida fifth regional Emmy for her work cov- articles on the influence of the movie Magazine Association award for in- Alan Flippen returned to the news- ering pediatric AIDS in Romania. She “The Passion of the Christ,” the main- depth reporting. room of The New York Times as a is also hosting and producing a new streaming of Wicca, politicians’ use of senior project manager in news admin- weekly show, “Living Smart” to get the Puritan theology, the reviving of 1981 istration after seven years on strategic most out of life. ancient religions, and how non- planning, production and labor rela- Neil Reisner, is associate professor at 1991 Christians are fighting to save Florida International University’s tions. Christmas. School of Journalism and Mass Juliette Fairley recently booked nine 1987 1995 Communication. He previously worked episodes of “One Life to Live” and as a reporter and editor at the Miami Kissette Bundy has joined the faculty played the lead love interest in a short Gene Choo recently joined NBC’s Daily Business Review, the Miami of the Scripps Howard School of film opposite Spike Lee’s brother Burbank (CA) bureau as a network Herald and the Bergen Record. Journalism and Communications at Cinque in the film “A Dollar Short.” news producer after four years work- Hampton University. Bundy, an Emmy ing in the NBC News London bureau 1982 Lem Lloyd is the corporate award-winning television producer, director/vice president of classified covering international news from Anisa Mehdi won a grant from the previously served as a daytime pro- advertising for Knight Ridder/Knight South Asia to Afghanistan to the United States Institute of Peace for a gramming unit manager for WBIS and Ridder Digital in San Jose, Calif. Middle East and Europe. documentary film with the working supervising producer at WNET-TV in Daniel Sloan is senior correspondent Amy Nutt returned to the Newark title “Monks and Muslims: Finding New York. for business television for Reuters in Star-Ledger after a 10-month sojourn Faith in Algeria.” Leah Eskin, food columnist for the Japan. His video and live reports at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. “It was Jerome Reide joined the State Bar of Chicago Tribune, was named top food appear regularly on CNN, the BBC, a magical experience and it was also a Michigan as director of the Justice columnist by the Association of Food and Reuters. He was elected president curative one, as I was recovering from Initiatives Division where he will over- Journalists. She describes her writing of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of breast cancer at the time,” she says. as “delicious fun” and plans to contin- see policy, pro bono, equal access, Japan in June. Srikant Ramaswami is director of technology and fundraising issues. ue her assignment as she and her fam- ily relocate to Baltimore where her 1992 global pharmaceutical communica- Sheryl Hilliard Tucker was promoted husband, Robert Blau (’85), is man- tions at Johnson & Johnson and writ- from executive editor of Money maga- aging editor of the Baltimore Sun. Rob Cox has returned to New York to ing his first book. zine to Time, Inc. editor at large. launch the U.S. branch of break- Kym Richardson was selected for the ingviews, a financial commentary busi- 1996 1983 Association of Independent Video and ness he founded in 2000 in London Cheryl Alkon is research editor at Filmmakers mentorship, an intensive with colleagues from the Financial Boston magazine. After eight years in Erik Gunn won the Milwaukee Press four-month program to give indepen- Times. New York, she moved to Massachusetts Club’s award for best business story of dent screenwriters, producers and in 2003. She continues to freelance for 2004 for his cover article on Master directors an opportunity to develop Susan Abrahamson Vaughn has More, Weight Watchers, and other pub- Lock for Milwaukee Magazine. their scripts. She was selected for her moved from teaching journalism at Lynchburg College (Va.) to teaching lications. Fred Katayama has been named screenplay “Ruby, My Dear.” journalism at Queens College, N.Y. Rebecca Leung has joined the anchor of Reuters’ daily global news Todd Woody has been named the Communication and Media broadcast on the Internet. He will also business editor of the Mercury News. 1993 Department at SUNY-New Paltz as an cover breaking news stores as he did Woody, 43, joined the Mercury News assistant professor. earlier this year from Florida, Georgia, as an assistant business editor for Malcolm Foster moved to Bangkok in Mississippi and Louisiana on technology in 2003 and was promoted June to become Asia business editor 1997 Hurricane Katrina. to the deputy job last year. for the Associated Press. Laurie Brian was the supervising pro- Previously, Woody worked for the Mark Maremont is special projects Vince Gonzales has been named ducer on “MegaStructures: Ultimate Sacramento Bee and the Industry editor at The Wall Street Journal. Chip broadcast journalist of the year by the Casino,” “MegaStructures: NORAD,” Standard and wrote for Wired maga- Scanlan’s interview with Maremont National Association of Hispanic and “MegaStructures: Ultimate Roller zine. He began his newspaper career was recently featured on Journalists. He and CBS News won the Coaster,” for the National Geographic as a reporter at The Palm Beach Post. Poynteronline. Emmy for investigative journalism in a Channel that was set to air in October. regularly scheduled newscast for sto- 1984 1988 ries on the Enron audio tapes. Vanessa Bush has been named execu- Reginald Chua has been appointed an tive editor of Essence magazine. Bush, Mike Watkiss won an Edward R. Alex Walworth is the executive pro- who has worked at the magazine for Murrow Award for a documentary assistant managing editor at the Wall ducer of “Debate,” a new show on USA Street Journal. He is responsible for the past five years, most recently called “Colorado City and the Today Live that focuses on hot topics served as its lifestyle editor. Underground Railroad.” The documen- the news department’s budget and in the news. tary focuses on the abuses inside the administration as well as various news Bill Hughes is currently covering large polygamist community on the projects. 1994 crime and public safety issues for The Journal News in Westchester County, Utah/Arizona border. It forced elected Joel Davis won first place for best Matt Fine has joined Philadelphia’s living in Jersey City, N.J. officials for the first time in 50 years writing in the 2004 Better Newspapers new all-sports station 950-WPEN, host- to take a serious look at the crimes Contest, sponsored by the California ing the Monday-Friday 7-10 pm slot. David Lawrence has written eight associated with polygamy and offered Newspaper Publishers Association entries in the three-volume Seth Hettena, an Associated Press some hope to the women and children (CNPA), for his story “The heart of the Encyclopedia of the Developing World. who are polygamy’s victims. (gray) matter,” which appeared in the reporter since 1997, has been promot- ed to correspondent in charge of the After five years as a reporter in south- 1985 Sacramento News & Review. The story is about Davis’s deep brain surgery to San Diego bureau. east Asia, David Lovering has trans- ferred to the United States with AP to David Bank is leaving the Wall Street alleviate his aggressive young Hanson Hosein and Heather Hughes, become a business writer based in Journal after nine years to head the Parkinson’s disease symptoms. While independent filmmakers and award- Pittsburgh. He recently completed a Civic Ventures Institute, the think recovering from surgery, Davis finished winning journalists, have produced month-long assignment in Afghanistan. tank wing of Civic Ventures, a national his book Justice Waits (Callister Press, “Independent America: The Two Lane non-profit working to turn the aging of 2005), about an unsolved murder in Search for Mom & Pop,” an entertain- Tami Luhby, personal finance writer the baby boom generation from a his hometown of Davis, Calif. ing account of Hosein and Hughes’ at Newsday, completed the looming crisis into a new opportunity Cameron McWhirter, a staff writer for expedition through 32 states as they Westchester Triathlon as part of The for civic engagement and renewal. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has look for an America unchained by cor- porate retail. NOTES – continued on 12 Anthony Flint, on leave from The won a first place “Salute to

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Journal • www. jrn.columbia.edu 11 NOTES at Mount Holyoke College in South Alan Rappeport received the Marjorie Avery Johnson is a staff reporter at Hadley, Mass. Dean Financial Journalism Foundation the Wall Street Journal covering travel fellowship awarded annually by The companies. Ivan Mahoney started freelancing sev- FROM PAGE 11 Economist. He will spend a year doing eral years ago after working with CNN Suzanne Nam moved from London to a master’s program at The London and Insight News TV in London. He Bangkok in May to join the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s School of Economics. Team in Training program. She also has been directing/producing/filming International Herald Tribune’s publica- did the New York City Marathon for documentaries in the UK mostly for Christian Red is a sports writer at the tions in Thailand as a business and the second year. When not training, BBC’s current affairs department. New York Daily News and in general news reporter. September was in Louisiana to report she taught Basic Reporting at Hunter Kristi Nelson has been promoted to Jennifer Odell continues to freelance on post-Katrina sports competition. College in the fall. co-anchor of NBC 5 “First at Four” for People covering the music and Amy Radil returned to the U.S. in which airs every weekday from 4 to 5 Kimberly Roots is a news editor at movie beats. She also writes every 2005 after spending four years in p.m. in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Soaps in Depth magazine. month for Downbeat Magazine and covered indie rock for the CMJ Brazil as a freelance reporter, mostly Anne Sachs is editor for 2001 Network as an editor and panel direc- in public radio. Radil just started a ELLEgirl.com, the teen version of tor for their Fall conference, the CMJ new job with KUOW in Seattle and is Roshni Abayasekara-Karwal has relo- ELLE magazine. looking forward to being back in a cated to New York and works with the Music Marathon. Eli Stokols is a general assignment newsroom. BBC bureau at the United Nations. Tanya Rivero (Warren) has been reporter with KWGN in Denver. Jim Rosenberg has returned to radio Jaime Bedrin was named 2005 North working as on-air reporter for WCBS to become a producer with the Bob Carolina radio journalist of the year by Rasheea Williams is a coordinator in in New York City following a one-year Edwards Show at XM Satellite Radio in the Radio-Television News Directors the standards and practices depart- stint at News 12 The Bronx as an Washington, D.C., following a stint Association of the Carolinas. Bedrin ment at MTV Networks where she anchor/reporter. with the World Bank. also received a 2005 regional Edward oversees standards for MTV News and online. 2005 Anne Francia A. Torres is the manag- R. Murrow award for her feature report er for news production at the “Recruiting Female Cops.” Her month- 2003 Anima Aguiluz is completing produc- Associated Broadcasting Company in ly beauty column, “Product Perfect” tion of an independently produced Manila, Philippines. Besides supervis- debuted in the Charlotte Observer. Marilen Cawad joined Institutional Philippine documentary. Investor magazine as news editor. She ing two evening news programs, she Tim Eaton covers the Texas capital for Kiera Butler is an assistant editor received the Knight-Bagehot also hosts a documentary program, Scripps Howard Newspapers. In April with Columbia Journalism Review. Fellowship in Economics and Business “Dokyu,” which features work by first- he was named star reporter of the year Journalism in 2002 and a masters in Emilia Casella is now completing a time/independent documentary film- by Texas APME/Headliners Foundation international affairs in 2005. master of international affairs at makers. of Texas for his work from the Corpus Columbia. Christi Caller-Times. He also won the Geeta Dayal won an Arthur F. Burns 1998 APME award for courts coverage and Fellowship from the International Kristin Espeland is a reporter and Mark Cardwell has joined an honorable mention for the 2005 Center for Journalism. She will be host of Morning Edition for Wyoming ABCNews.com as editorial director. He Casey Medal for Meritorious working as an arts journalist for Die Public Radio. Journalism from the University of Welt in Berlin. had been executive producer of AP’s Jennifer Fishbein currently edits Maryland’s Casey Journalism Center digital group. Joel Gershon is a reporter in Bangkok news at ThaiDay, the daily paper on Children and Families for a story for the local section of the founded by, and distributed with, the Colette Kunkel was nominated for a on low conviction rates of people International Herald Tribune. International Herald Tribune. 2005 Emmy for a documentary she indicted for sexual abuse. produced entitled “Ladies First” for Kosuke Takahashi Goto joined Erik German is a staff writer with Ramin Ganeshram has written her Thirteen’s “Wide Angle” series. Bloomberg in Tokyo as global foreign Newsday. first cookbook Sweet Hands: Island exchange market reporter. He uses Marybeth Christie Redmond has Cooking from Trinidad & Tobago. It Benjamin Harvey is the Istanbul cor- his former name Kosuke Takashi, been teaching advanced reporting and was featured in an article in the respondent for the Associated Press. when he writes for other publications, writing at St. Michael’s College in August National Geographic Traveler including Asia Times. Alex Hutchinson is a reporter with Colchester, Vt., for the past three magazine. the Ottawa Citizen. years. After working as an arts writer in the William Gorta is associate metro edi- features department of the Florida Carina Kamel has moved to London Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is finishing up tor at the New York Post. an MA in Middle East Studies at the Times-Union in Jacksonville, Tanya where she is a producer for CNBC. Brian O’Connor is the personal Perez-Brennan has joined the American University of Beirut’s Center Ivan Karakashian is a research asso- finance columnist for the Detroit Orlando Sentinel as a news reporter for Arab and Middle East Studies and ciate with the Committee to Protect News. He writes a weekly column and covering the city of Deltona. working as a staff reporter for the Journalists. edits two weekly sections on personal Daily Star, an English-language news- Robert Plotkin has purchased The finance. He joined the News in Jennifer Maloney is enrolled in the paper based in Beirut and distributed Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper October, 2004 as deputy business edi- M.A. program at the J-School concen- throughout the region with the that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for tor. trating in politics and government. International Herald Tribune. meritorious public service. Plotkin, a 1999 Susana Seijas joined BBC News in former Monterey County prosecutor, Nicole Marks is an intern at New York Mexico City as a producer. also works as a freelance reporter and magazine. recently returned photographer. F. Brinley Bruton Sheila Stainback contributed a chap- Laura McCandlish is an education to London from Afghanistan where she ter to A Love Like No Other Alexis Robie spent the summer in reporter with the Daily Press in trained journalists and helped set up (Riverhead Press, 2005) in which 20 Miami, shooting and field producing Williamsburg, Va. what is now the country’s largest inde- adoptive parents share their child- for the A&E series “The First 48.” The Tom Namako is a staff writer at the pendent news service. She has taken a rearing experiences. An excerpt of show follows the real life investigations Press of Atlantic City covering the city sabbatical from Reuters and is giving Stainback’s work appears in the of homicide detectives. of Vineland, N.J. freelancing a try. December issue of Redbook magazine. Michael Schreiber was an associate has joined the Joshua Norman is at the Biloxi Sun Christine Haughney On July 5, Amy Webb launched producer with the now defunct New Herald covering the town of Long Wall Street Journal as a national com- Dragonfire, an interactive online publi- York Times TV on two episodes of Beach and night cops. mercial real estate reporter. cation bringing together innovative Frontline — one on terrorism in Victoria Martin received a master’s audio, video, and print content. Europe and the other on the credit Christian Salazar is a municipal degree in European politics and card industry. The latter episode won reporter at the Herald News in north- administration from the College of 2002 an Emmy for investigative journalism. ern New Jersey. Europe (Belgium). She now specializes He is currently at ABC working on a Jamie Casini and Nancy Reardon Karen Sloan is a reporter with the documentary. in covering the EU. (‘05) have been named co-managing Omaha World-Herald. Josh Robbins has moved back to the editors of the Palo Alto Daily News, a 2004 Knight Ridder Community newspaper George Spencer is a reporter/anchor Orlando area and taken a position with News 12, N.Y. writing for the Orlando Sentinel after that includes six free, daily papers. Ryan Blitstein joined SF Weekly, Calif., as a staff writer. four years covering Florida State Sara Clemence has been covering real Armen Terjimanian is an associate University football and basketball for estate for Forbes.com for after stints at Jessica Carsen has returned to print producer for sports at USATODAY.com. the paper. newspapers in Alabama and Albany after a year working as a freelance pro- Dario Thuburn is a correspondent Tim Townsend won the 2005 (N.Y.). She has also made a lot of tele- ducer for the BBC in New York, with AFP in Moscow. Templeton Religion Reporter of the vision appearances on CNN, CNBC, Washington, D.C. and London. Based MSNBC and VH-1 as an expert on in London, she is currently a reporter Katherine Tomassi is an intern at The Year Award given by the Religion American Lawyer. Newswriters Association. Townsend, a celebrity vacation homes. for the European edition of Time mag- azine. reporter with the St. Louis Post- Ruth Jacobs will teach introduction Dispatch, was praised for his “exem- to journalism at Colby College (Me.) Rebecca Haggerty is a producer with Alumni of the old New York plary legwork and keen news judgment beginning in January. Dateline NBC. Herald Tribune are planning which combine to produce compelling a reunion for Sept. 26, 2006. and highly informative journalism.” Yilauk Kang is a reporter at Aron Heller has joined the Associated Forbes.com covering biotechnology Press as a reporter in the Jerusalem 2000 and pharmaceutical stocks and writing bureau. For the past year he worked as “quirky” tech stories. a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen. Meg Murphy is a journalism instructor

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