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Columbia Journalism School 2020 Impact Report COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL 2020 IMPACT REPORT “We believe a graduate school of journalism should draw on the talents of faculty and students to create journalism that ignites change in the world.” —Dean Steve Coll Contents Photo by Jeffrey Schifman Photo by Jeffrey Schifman 2 6 Advancing Investigative Strengthening Reporting Journalism Photo by Jeffrey Schifman 13 17 From the Classroom Creating Access and to the World Changing Lives 2 COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL A decade ago, under Dean Nicholas Letter From the Dean Lemann, Columbia Journalism School began to fill gaps emerging in commer- cial journalism, by creating nonprofit drawn to such purpose investigative reporting projects, and by in recent years. establishing new centers that would It is perhaps more publish critical research about Silicon straightforward for Valley and other disruptive forces in our political scientists and field. In recent years, we have expanded engineers to conceive this strategy, building out new postgrad- of projects that might uate investigative reporting programs on directly solve or ame- migration, civil rights, climate change, liorate crises such as sexual assault and inequality in edu- climate change, public cation. We partner and publish major health epidemics or investigative work with news organi- mass incarceration. zations that have large and influential Journalists are not audiences, including The New York solution-seeking engi- Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New neers or public policy Yorker and others. innovators. Yet we can We also seek to make an impact by Photo by Jeffrey Schifman see as clearly today as influencing and strengthening journal- ever that professional ism through accountability reporting In May 1904, Joseph Pulitzer published journalists working without fear or favor about the media itself at Columbia Jour- “The College of Journalism,” a seminal es- continually ignite remarkable and posi- nalism Review; by publishing original, say in The North American Review, where tive change. headline-making research about crises he made the case for creating a special- Without investigative journalism, such as the rise of propaganda and ized school that would “raise journalism for example, there may not have been hate speech on social media platforms; to its real rank as a learned profession.” a #MeToo movement. Police, pros- and by training journalists to improve He predicted that “before the century ecutors and employers had failed their coverage of gun violence and closes schools of journalism will be scores of women who finally turned to natural disasters. generally accepted as a feature of spe- reporters as a figurative court of last We hope this inaugural impact report cialized higher education, like schools of resort. The same might be said about will document some of this work and law or of medicine.” More than a century the journalistic exposures of decades make clear our aspirations for University later, Pulitzer’s vision has been realized of child abuse in the Catholic Church. partners, newsrooms, alumni, students at Columbia and many other leading And despite the present atmosphere and other collaborators. By publishing American universities. of incitement and attacks against the this report regularly, we also hope to Our School has long drawn from press in the United States and abroad, challenge ourselves to aim high and to Columbia University’s research and hardly a week goes by without pro- explore continuously how a graduate scholarship to educate our graduate fessional reporters exposing fresh school like ours can draw on the re- students and to inform and influence corruption and abuses of power across sources and talents of one of the world’s our profession. Yet we aspire today government, business and civil society, great research universities to produce to greater public service and impact leading directly to resignations, official journalism that fosters change. beyond the borders of the University. investigations and reforms. Columbia University President Lee We believe a graduate school of Bollinger encouraged us recently to journalism can and should seek to aspire to seek solutions to pressing create such journalism, by drawing on crises, an aspiration he refers to as the the talents of our faculty and graduate Steve Coll Fourth Purpose of universities, after students, and by working in an interdis- Dean, Henry R. Luce research, education and public service. ciplinary way with scholars, scientists Professor of Journalism At Columbia Journalism, we have been and researchers across the University. 2020 IMPACT REPORT 1 Carolyn Drake / Magnum for The New Yorker ADVANCING INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Through the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, a teaching and investigative reporting program, and Columbia Journalism Investigations, the School’s postgraduate fellowship program devoted to public interest reporting, the School seeks to draw distinctively on the resources of Columbia University to publish journalism that creates positive change. Some of this work is carried out by graduate students; some by professional investigative journalists who serve as project directors, mentoring students and postgraduate fellows; and some by faculty. The Stabile Center, led by the Dean of Academic Affairs Sheila Coronel, trains select students for careers in investigative reporting and provides grants to publish these and other projects through major news organizations. Columbia Journalism Investigations, led by longtime investigative reporter Kristen Lombardi, is collaborating with the School of Public Health, The Earth Institute and other parts of the University to apply social science methods to investigative journalism projects and to leverage insights from academic research to create credible and impactful stories that reach large and influential audiences. 2 COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL Tracking and Documenting Asylum Seekers Deported to Their Deaths Columbia Journalism Investigations’ Brown Institute for Media Innovation to tation-to-harm portal to be published by global migration project, led by Sarah advance the impact of the project’s de- The New Yorker. They expanded their Stillman, MacArthur Fellow, New portation data. Stillman partnered with reporting to countries such as Somalia, Yorker staff writer and adjunct faculty an award-winning data visualization Cambodia, Egypt and Mauritania. member, reports on U.S. immigration and design team to construct a depor- law, border politics and international refugee policy. Carolyn Drake / Magnum for The New Yorker In 2018, the project published “No Refuge” in The New Yorker magazine, which documented cases of immi- grants who were deported and then faced death or danger in the countries to which they were sent, particular- ly women and girls who fled gen- der-based violence in Central Ameri- ca’s Northern Triangle. In addition to impactful magazine journalism, the project included an original database of post-deportation vi- olence against deportees that has since been featured in The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight and other outlets. The work won a national award from the Ameri- can Immigration Lawyers Association. In Boston, a federal judge cited the Columbia Journalism Investigations project while halting the deportation of 50 Indonesian Christians who faced potential persecution, and dozens of immigration attorneys referenced the findings to help secure asylum for women fleeing Central America. At a Senate committee hearing, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) asked Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of Homeland Security, to review the findings of the No Refuge project and respond — to the Senate and public — about the deaths that resulted from de- portations documented by the project. The data described more than 60 cases of deaths following U.S. deportations. After the No Refuge project, Stillman won a Magic Grant from the School’s 2020 IMPACT REPORT 3 Brian Stauffer, special to ProPublica Exposing Abusive Photo by Jeffrey Schifman Practices by Dondi Tawatao / Getty For-Profit Counting the Homicides Companies Missing from Official Police Under Records in The Philippines Contract with between the School’s Stabile Center and Public Schools the Security Force Monitor, a project by Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, and the Human Rights Data Columbia Journalism Investigations’ Analysis Group. To build a database of Teacher Project, led by veteran education documented cases, the team collected re- reporter and editor Sarah Carr, explored ports, maps and data from police, human issues of equity and access in American rights groups, parishes, media outlets and education. The team partnered with Pro- funeral parlors. The total number of homi- Publica on an investigative series that cides during Duterte’s campaign is almost Photo by Jeffrey Schifman revealed prison-like conditions in public 2.5 times higher than the official police schools managed by Camelot Education, counts, according to the investigation. a for-profit company operating alterna- In the Philippines, the casualties caused Mora and Padilla — graduates of the tive schools. by President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on School who specialized in investigative The postgraduate fellows working drugs have been grossly underestimated, and data journalism — published the with Carr documented violence and according to a groundbreaking investiga- team’s analysis in a database of 2,320 patterns of abuse inside Camelot’s tion in The Atlantic led by Professor Shei- drug-related
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