DOCSLIB.ORG

Reporter, Hedge Fund Manager, Movie Director by KATIE BENNER Touch the Yellow Box XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX for Company Info

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Reporter, Hedge Fund Manager, Movie Director by KATIE BENNER Touch the Yellow Box XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX for Company Info NEIL BARSKY 1 of 15 THE KID GETS HIS PICTURE Neil Barsky researched, directed, and produced a film about former New York Mayor Ed Koch. NEIL BARSKY: reporter, hedge fund manager, movie director By KATIE BENNER Touch the yellow box XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX for company info. FORTUNEFORTUNE SeptemberSeptember 16, 16,2013 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 1 9/4/13 2:33 PM Neil Barsky 2 of 15 from Barsky Ventures is opu- lent:The Midtown view Manhattan from 57 stories up, eye to eye with the city’s penthouse apartments and executive suites. The office itself, however, is spartan. A few sticks of generic office furniture dot a sea of rough beige car- peting, giving the place the look and feel of a no-frills tax preparer’s waiting room. It’s quiet as a library. The only thing in the place at all flashy is a movie poster as tall as an 8-year-old, bearing, in big red letters, KOCH. THE MAN. THE MAYOR. THE MOVIE. Underneath is the world-weary face of the former New York mayor. This is where Neil Barsky works. Koch is his movie. Before he made his film, Bar- sky ran a successful hedge fund. But that’s all over. All that’s left is the movie. That’s all Barsky is doing. That’s all he wants to talk about—his film,Koch , all the time. JUMP TO THE NEXT STORY FORTUNE September 16, 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 2 9/4/13 2:33 PM Neil Barsky 3 of 15 Koch was released months ago, and promoting the film is Bar- sky’s full-time job. In the midst of talking up the DVD’s extras, he stops to grab a stack of Koch postcards and slips them into my hands. “Here,” he says. “Just in case. You never know.” Barsky may have been a hedge fund guy, but he is not “The Wall Streeter Goes Hollywood.” That is, he’s not financing films and then parlaying his production credit into trips to Cannes or Sun- dance or Tribeca and handshakes with Clooney or drinks with Tar- rantino. First of all, Barsky—who is 55—didn’t just financeKoch . It was his idea. He put together a crew. He directed the thing. He also conducted much of the research and all of the interviews. He learned, often painfully, how to do everything, even obtain music rights. Second, he made a documentary. About an octogenarian politician. And about a dying city. It’s a deeply unsexy movie. And Barsky loves it. Barsky defied expectations when he made Koch, but his career arc is generally hard to define. He started as a newsman, working the business desk at the New York Daily News in 1986. He moved to the Wall Street Journal in 1988, where he covered real estate and the gambling industry. In 1993 he became an analyst at Mor- gan Stanley. Five years later he co-founded a hedge fund. Then he went solo in 2002 with Alson Capital Partners—named for his children Alexandra and Davidson. At its height, Alson had $3.5 billion in assets under management. Wall Street was very good to Barsky, but he still talks about jour- nalism like the one that got away. “I loved getting up in the morn- FORTUNE September 16, 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 3 9/4/13 2:33 PM NEIL BARSKY 4 of 15 Touch the yellowBarsky box and KochXXX at a previewXXX screeningXXX for theXXX documentaryXXX Koch, for company info. at Lincoln Center on Jan. 13, 2013. Koch died just a few weeks later—Feb. 1, the day the film premiered. FORTUNE September 16, 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 4 9/4/13 2:33 PM Neil Barsky 5 of 15 ing, looking in the mirror, and saying, ‘I’m a reporter.’ I took no great joy in saying, ‘I’m an analyst’ or ‘I’m a hedge fund manager.’ I was reluctant to leave my identity as a journalist. I loved journal- ism for the excitement of discovery. I loved getting exposure very quickly to so many different things. I still consider it to be among the highest callings. I really do.” What Barsky most likes about reporting, it seems, is that he gets to be the one asking the questions. He peppers me with: “Do you know what you’re going to say? What’s your angle here? What do you think this will be about?” When I ask him what story he would tell, he says, “Wow! This guy doesn’t know fuck-all about documen- taries, and he did this great movie about Ed Koch! Koch is a great movie! Everyone should see it!” ARSKY, LIKE KOCH, was born in the Bronx. Bar- sky briefly left the city, moving to Long Island and then New Jersey before returning to Manhattan in 1973 as a high school sophomore. That was four years before Koch ran for mayor. The city wasn’t justB broke—it was depressed. “Terrible things were happening,” Barsky says. “But for an intellectually curious teenager there was magic in moving to the city.” While a junior at the Walden School, Barsky and three class- mates went to Boston to make a short movie about the busing crisis over school integration. A federal judge had ruled that stu- dents from white areas of the city would be bused to black areas FORTUNE September 16, 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 5 9/4/13 2:33 PM Neil Barsky 6 of 15 to attend high school, and vice versa. The law was intended to remedy discrimination in Boston’s public schools, but it sparked riots and protests, particularly in the neighborhoods most af- fected by the ruling. Barsky and his friends wanted to figure out what was really going on, so they interviewed teachers, local poli- ticians, and other students. “The great stuff in the movie hap- pened when we interviewed other kids,” he says. Barsky heard a lot of raw bigotry, but also very honest statements about why peo- ple felt their way of life was being threatened. “There was a clan- nishness, but also a sense of community.” The Boston trip fed Barsky’s enthusiasm for two things: re- porting and politics. Neither interest has waned. While at the Journal he played poker at the Players, a club in a townhouse on Gramercy Park founded by Mark Twain, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, and the actor Edwin Booth (brother to John Wilkes). Barsky’s friend, the literary agent Chris Calhoun, recalls he some- times forgot to take off his work ID badge and would play with it draped across his chest. (Barsky insists that he would never have done so on purpose.) As a player, Calhoun says that Barsky “was constantly raising to get rid of the watchers. When he played a hand, he was committed to winning it. That’s the kind of guy you want to play with.” Barsky often won. At the age of 35, Barsky faced what he calls a mid-career cri- sis. He had a family and was fully ensconced in New York City. His dreams, like working as a foreign correspondent, didn’t make sense anymore. He left the Journal and began covering FORTUNE September 16, 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 6 9/4/13 2:33 PM Neil Barsky 7 of 15 Koch campaigning for New York governor in 1981; he lost to Mario Cuomo in the primary. FORTUNE September 16, 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 7 9/4/13 2:33 PM Neil Barsky 8 of 15 commercial real estate and the gaming industry for Morgan Stanley. Within a year he was ranked one of Institutional Inves- tor’s All-Star Analysts. In 1998 he started a hedge fund with fel- low Morgan Stanley alum Scott Sipprelle called Midtown Research, which grew to over $1 billion in assets under man- agement. The two parted ways when Barsky wanted to open his own fund in 2002. “Neil’s taken risks I would have judged to be foolish, and he’s succeeded at all of them,” says Nick Goldberg, the editor of the Los Angeles Times’ editorial pages and a friend since high school. When they were teenagers, Goldberg recalls a time when he and Barsky bought beer and resold it to concert-goers in Central Park. “He’s always had an entrepreneurial spirit,” Goldberg says. ARSKY IS SLOUCHY. He is folded into his chair, jacket scrunched up around his armpits, golf shirt askew. “I failed at everything I ever tried,” he says. “I graduated from Oberlin and couldn’t get a job in journalism. I went to Columbia Journalism School, andB it took me a while to get my momentum. When I wanted to start my first hedge fund, it took a while to raise money. This docu- mentary took two years. You know those Harvard Crimson guys who at 22 go to the New York Times and never look back? That’s not me.” Then he adds, “But I guess that’s not a bad thing.” Barsky’s friends sigh when I ask about this string of perceived failures. “It’s in his own mind,” says Josh Quittner, a former jour- FORTUNE September 16, 2013 BAR.V.09.16.13.XMIT.indd 8 9/4/13 2:33 PM Neil Barsky 9 of 15 Barsky says he relied on editor Juliet Weber and producer Jenny Carchman while making Koch.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Marshall Project/California Sunday Magazine
    ANNUAL REPORT 2018 2019 Carroll Bogert PRESIDENT Susan Chira EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Neil Barsky FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS Fred Cummings Nicholas Goldberg Jeffrey Halis Laurie Hays Bill Keller James Leitner William L. McComb Jonathan Moses Ben Reiter Topeka Sam Liz Simons (Vice-Chair) William J. Snipes Anil Soni ADVISORY BOARD Soffiyah Elijah Nicole Gordon Andrew Jarecki Marc Levin Joan Petersilia David Simon Bryan Stevenson CREDITS Cover: Young men pray at Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp—California’s first and only remaining rehabilitative prison camp for offenders sentenced as teens. Photo by Brian Frank for The Marshall Project/California Sunday Magazine. Back cover: Photo credits from top down: WILLIAM WIDMER for The Marshall Project, Associated Press ELI REED for The Marshall Project. From Our President and Board Chair Criminal justice is a bigger part of our national political conversation than at any time in decades. That’s what journalism has the power to do: raise the issues, and get people talking. In 2013, when trying to raise funds for The Marshall Proj- more than 1,350 articles with more than 140 media part- ect’s launch, we told prospective supporters that one ners. Netflix has turned our Pulitzer-winning story, “An of our ambitious goals was for criminal justice reform to Unbelievable Story of Rape,” into an eight-part miniseries. be an integral issue in the presidential debates one day. We’ve reached millions of Americans, helped change “I would hope that by 2016, no matter who the candidates laws and regulations and won pretty much every major are… that criminal justice would be one of the more press- journalism prize out there.
    [Show full text]
  • CELEBRATING WOMEN's VOICES a FILM FESTIVAL for the FEMALE MAJORITY FESTIVAL GUIDE 51Fest.Org & @51Fest JULY 18–21 @
    A FILM FESTIVAL FOR THE FEMALE MAJORITY CELEBRATING WOMEN’s VOICES JULY 18–21 @ IFC CENTER & SVA THEATRE FESTIVAL GUIDE 51fest.org & @51fest POWERHOUSE ContentS & Guests LINEUP Staff 2 MAYOR’s & COMMISSIONER’S LETTERS 3 Welcome 5 Sponsors 6 Special Events & Premieres 7 Schedule, Tickets & Venues 21 GUESTS AND MODERATORS, IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story After the Wedding Kathy Griffin, Actor & Comedian Julianne Moore, Producer & Actor THE WALKING DOCTOR KILLING BARONESS VON Moderator Tina Brown Moderator Tina Brown DEAD WHO EVE SKETCH SHOW Women in the World Spotlight: Supermajority For Sama AMC BBC AMERICA BBC AMERICA IFC Cecile Richards, Supermajority Co-founder Waad al-Kateab, Director Ai-jen Poo, Supermajority Co-founder Edward Watts, Director Yoruba Richen, Filmmaker of And She Could Be Next Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, Subject Moderator Tina Brown Moderator Anne Barnard, former New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Unbelievable Susannah Grant, Showrunner & Executive Producer Otherhood Sarah Timberman, Executive Producer Cindy Chupack, Director Lisa Cholodenko, Executive Producer & Episode Director Cathy Schulman, Producer Kaitlyn Dever, Actor Jason Michael Berman, Producer Danielle Macdonald, Actor Moderator Mario Cantone, Actor & Comedian Merritt Wever, Actor A Girl from Mogadishu Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins Mary McGuckian, Writer & Director Janice Engel, Director Ifrah Ahmed, Real-life Subject Moderator Rachel Dry, Deputy Politics Editor Barkhad Abdi, Actor for Enterprise at The New York Times Moderator
    [Show full text]
  • Investing in Equitable News and Media Projects
    Investing in Equitable News and Media Projects Photo credit from Left to Right: Artwork: “Infinite Essence-James” by Mikael Owunna #Atthecenter; Luz Collective; Media Development Investment Fund. INVESTING IN EQUITABLE NEWS AND MEDIA PROJECTS AUTHORS Andrea Armeni, Executive Director, Transform Finance Dr. Wilneida Negrón, Project Manager, Capital, Media, and Technology, Transform Finance ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Farai Chideya, Ford Foundation Jessica Clark, Dot Connector Studio This work benefited from participation in and conversations at the Media Impact Funders and Knight Media Forum events. The authors express their gratitude to the organizers of these events. ABOUT TRANSFORM FINANCE Transform Finance is a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of social justice and capital. We support investors committed to aligning their impact investment practice with social justice values through education and research, the development of innovative investment strategies and tools, and overall guidance. Through training and advisory support, we empower activists and community leaders to shape how capital flows affect them – both in terms of holding capital accountable and having a say in its deployment. Reach out at [email protected] for more information. THIS REPORT WAS PRODUCED WITH SUPPORT FROM THE FORD FOUNDATION. Questions about this report in general? Email [email protected] or [email protected]. Read something in this report that you’d like to share? Find us on Twitter @TransformFin Table of Contents 05 I. INTRODUCTION 08 II. LANDSCAPE AND KEY CONSIDERATIONS 13 III. RECOMMENDATIONS 22 IV. PRIMER: DIFFERENT TYPES OF INVESTMENTS IN EARLY-STAGE ENTERPRISES 27 V. CONCLUSION APPENDIX: 28 A. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 29 B. LANDSCAPE OF EQUITABLE MEDIA INVESTORS AND ADJACENT INVESTORS I.
    [Show full text]
  • The Posse Foundation
    THE POSSE scholar 2010 ANNUAL REPORT introduction Becoming a Posse Scholar is no small feat. The journey begins with the student being nominated by her high school followed by an intensive set of interviews with Posse staff to assess CONTENTS leadership and academic potential, communication skills, propensity for group work and level of motivation. Only the best 2. CONCEPT, MISSION, GOALS will receive four-year, full-tuition scholarships from one of Posse’s 38 top-tier partner colleges and universities. But before 4. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT + FOUNDER a Scholar matriculates on campus, she will also complete AND CHAIR Posse’s rigorous, eight-month Pre-Collegiate Training Program consisting of two-hour weekly workshop sessions designed to sharpen her growing leadership skills. 6. PROGRAM COMPONENTS The result of this involved process is a student uniquely prepared 8. COLLEGE + UNIVERSITY PARTNERS to make her mark on campus. And that’s exactly what Posse Scholars have been doing since the program’s inception in 9. CAREER PARTNERS 1989. In addition to graduating at a rate of 90 percent— nearly double the national average—more than 70 percent of Posse Scholars found or become presidents of campus 10 . HIGHLIGHTS organizations. Over the years they have earned a reputation as student leaders who enliven classroom discussions, build 12 . CITY REPORTS bridges between disparate sections of the campus community and foster an atmosphere of integrated diversity. 19 . MEET THE SCHOLARS There are currently more than 1,500 Posse Scholars on campuses across the country. They hail from some of our 36. CONTRIBUTORS country’s largest cities.
    [Show full text]
  • POV's 'Koch' Is a Fascinating Portrait of the Larger-Than-Life New
    Contact: POV Communications: 212-989-7425. Cathy Fisher, [email protected], Amanda Nguyen, [email protected] POV online pressroom: www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom POV’s ‘Koch’ Is a Fascinating Portrait of the Larger-Than-Life New York City Mayor, Airing Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 on PBS An Inside Portrait of the Man and the City at a Time of Crisis and Re-invention. “Thrilling. A mayor and a metropolis linked by tumultuous events in the worst and best of times.” —Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal MEDIA ALERT – FACT SHEET National Dates: Neil Barsky’s Koch has its national broadcast premiere on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 at 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) as part of the 27th season of POV (Point of View), American television’s longest-running independent documentary series. The film will stream on POV’s website, www.pbs.org/pov/koch/ from Sept. 23, 2014 – Oct. 22, 2014. The Film: New York City mayors have a world stage on which to strut, and they have made legendary use of it. Yet few have matched the bravado, combativeness and egocentricity that Ed Koch brought to the office during his three terms from 1978 to 1989. As Neil Barsky's Koch recounts, Koch was more than the blunt, funny man New Yorkers either loved or hated. Elected in the 1970s during the city's fiscal crisis, he was a new Democrat for the dawning Reagan era—fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Koch finds the former mayor politically active to the end (he died in 2013)—still winning the affection of many New Yorkers while driving others to distraction.
    [Show full text]
  • US Mainstream Media Index May 2021.Pdf
    Mainstream Media Top Investors/Donors/Owners Ownership Type Medium Reach # estimated monthly (ranked by audience size) for ranking purposes 1 Wikipedia Google was the biggest funder in 2020 Non Profit Digital Only In July 2020, there were 1,700,000,000 along with Wojcicki Foundation 5B visitors to Wikipedia. (YouTube) Foundation while the largest BBC reports, via donor to its endowment is Arcadia, a Wikipedia, that the site charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and had on average in 2020, Peter Baldwin. Other major donors 1.7 billion unique visitors include Google.org, Amazon, Musk every month. SimilarWeb Foundation, George Soros, Craig reports over 5B monthly Newmark, Facebook and the late Jim visits for April 2021. Pacha. Wikipedia spends $55M/year on salaries and programs with a total of $112M in expenses in 2020 while all content is user-generated (free). 2 FOX Rupert Murdoch has a controlling Publicly Traded TV/digital site 2.6M in Jan. 2021. 3.6 833,000,000 interest in News Corp. million households – Average weekday prime Rupert Murdoch Executive Chairman, time news audience in News Corp, son Lachlan K. Murdoch, Co- 2020. Website visits in Chairman, News Corp, Executive Dec. 2020: FOX 332M. Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Fox Source: Adweek and Corporation, Executive Chairman, NOVA Press Gazette. However, Entertainment Group. Fox News is owned unique monthly views by the Fox Corporation, which is owned in are 113M in Dec. 2020. part by the Murdoch Family (39% share). It’s also important to point out that the same person with Fox News ownership, Rupert Murdoch, owns News Corp with the same 39% share, and News Corp owns the New York Post, HarperCollins, and the Wall Street Journal.
    [Show full text]
  • Download It for Free at Apple’S App Storesm and the Google Play Store.SM for More Information, Go to Coned.Com/Mobileapp, Or Visit Us on Facebook Or Twitter
    AwardAward Volume XIX, No. 1 • New York City • SEP/OCT 2013 www.EDUCATIONUPDATE.com Winner CUTTING EDGE NEWS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE 2 EDUCATION UPDATE ■ FPOR ARENTS, Educators & Students ■ SEP/OCT 2013 GUEST EDITORIALS EDUCATION UPDATE MAILING ADDRESS: 2013: The Year 695 Park Avenue, Ste. E1509, NY, NY 10065 A Glimpse into the Future Email: [email protected] www.EducationUpdate.com Tel: 212-650-3552 Fax: 212-410-0591 By DR. MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN there is much to celebrate. PUBLISHERS: his past June I ended my fourteen While all of this has given of Children First Pola Rosen, Ed.D., Adam Sugerman, M.A. years as Chancellor of The City me much joy I cannot be By ERNEST A. LOGAN ADVISORY COUNCIL: University of New York. In 1991, more pleased than with Mary Brabeck, Dean, NYU Steinhardt School of when I was appointed by the CUNY the rebuilding of the full his should be Culture, Ed., and Human Dev.; Christine Cea, Ph.D., NYS Board of Regents; Shelia Evans-Tranumn, Chair, Board of Trustees, I had limited appreciation time faculty, which suf- a school year Board of Trustees, Casey Family Programs Foundation; of the impact one might have on the future fered greatly during the when “chil- Charlotte K. Frank, Ph.D., Sr. VP, McGraw-Hill; Joan direction of this great university. But with the seventies and eighties. dren first” Freilich, Ph.D., Trustee, Barnard College & College support of CUNY board chair and former Yale becomes more than a of New Rochelle; Andrew Gardner, Sr. Manager, This along with record student enrollment BrainPOP Educators; Cynthia Greenleaf, Ph.D., Sr.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report 2017
    265 Henry Street New York, New York 10002-4808 212.766.9200 www.henrystreet.org HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT opens doors of opportunity to enrich lives and enhance human progress for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services, arts and health care programs. ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Inside The cover features details of commissioned artists’ renderings of our iconic historic headquarters. MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FRONT COVER, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: 2 H Spencer Young; Mark Palazzolo (markpalazzolo.com); Ed Cahill; 3 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS H Spencer Young; c. 1930 image of Henry Street. BACK COVER, CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: Bob Rothstein; 4 CELEBRATING 125 YEARS OF HENRY STREET Ken Condon; Hedy Pagremanski; Mark Palazzolo; and Kit Maloney. WE BOUGHT A FIREHOUSE! CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Early health 6 clinic at the Settlement; children in the Early Childhood Education Center; Abrons Arts Center dancers IT HAPPENED ON HENRY STREET 2017 at An Evening at Ludlow House; 8 1910 knitting class; and artist’s OUR PROGRAMS AND CLIENTS rendering of Henry Street. 10 16 TREASURES OF HENRY STREET 20 FINANCIAL REPORT FY2017 22 HENRY STREET DONORS 30 GALAS AND PARTIES 32 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SENIOR STAFF 33 MAP OF HENRY STREET LOCATIONS Messages FROM HENRY STREET FROM THE FROM THE Board of Directors Executive HENRY STREET’S SOLE MISSION is to serve our Director community, a course charted 125 years ago by our founder, AS HENRY STREET ENTERS its 125th year, our Lillian Wald. Originally serving neighbors through a visiting nurse service, she quickly realized that the needs of the Scott Swid Quasquicentennial, we have much to celebrate.
    [Show full text]
  • Why Is America So Punitive?
    Why is America So Punitive? A Report on the Deliberations of The Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Punitiveness in America Held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 2-3, 2015 Authors: Bettina Muenster and Jennifer Trone March 2016 Supported By: Acknowledgements We would like to express our gratitude to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation which has a long history supporting research that leads to social change. In this instance, the Foundation hoped that a cross-pollination of perspectives could unpack the phenomenon of punitiveness in the operations of the American criminal justice system and, more importantly, illuminate the path forward to a more humane and effective response to crime. The Roundtable thus joins a larger portfolio of research and programmatic initiatives at MacArthur that are designed to find ways to reduce America’s reliance on incarceration while promoting public safety and justice. About Us The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy; the strength and vitality of our headquarters city, Chicago; and generating new knowledge about critical issues. MacArthur is one of the nation's largest independent foundations.
    [Show full text]
  • Closerikers Campaign: August 2015 – August 2017
    Reflections and Lessons from the First Two Phases of the #CLOSErikers Campaign: August 2015 – August 2017 JANUARY 2018 This paper was produced by the Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice. The views, conclusions, and recommendations outlined here are those of Katal and do not represent other organizations involved in the #CLOSErikers campaign. No dedicated funding was used to create this paper. For inquiries, please contact gabriel sayegh, Melody Lee, and Lorenzo Jones at [email protected]. © Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice 2017. All rights reserved. Katal encourages the dissemination of content from this publication with the condition that reference is made to the source. Suggested Citation Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, Reflections and Lessons from the First Two Phases of the #CLOSErikers Campaign: August 2015–August 2017, (New York: Katal, 2018). Contents Introduction 4 A Brief History of Rikers and Previous Efforts to Shut It Down 6 Political Context and Local Dynamics 8 Movement to End Stop-and-Frisk and Marijuana Arrests 8 Police Killings and #BlackLivesMatter 9 A Scathing Federal Report on Conditions for Youth on Rikers 10 Kalief Browder: Another Rikers Tragedy 11 The National Political Landscape: 2012–2016 11 Media Focus on the Crisis at Rikers 12 A Strategy to #CLOSErikers 13 Campaign Structure and Development 15 Phase One: Building the Campaign and Demand to Close Rikers 15 First Citywide Campaign Meeting 17 Completing Phase One and Preparing for Phase Two 18 First #CLOSErikers Sign-on Letter
    [Show full text]
  • 2017 Www for and the Latest Information Internal Revenue Service ► Go to Irs.Gov/Form99opf Instructions
    949133513308 IL EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 15, 2018 - Return of Private Foundation OMB No 1545-005 Form 990-PF ' or Section 4947(a)(1) Trust Treated as Private Foundation Do not enter social security numbers on this form as it may be made public Departmcgt of the Treasury ► 2017 www for and the latest information Internal Revenue Service ► Go to Irs.gov/Form99OPF instructions . oen to Public nsoec For calendar year 2017 or tax year beginning , and endin Name of foundation Employer identification number FAT.rfNwnfT) FOTTNT) ATT(TN _ TNC' _ 1 1-'149,F475 Number and street (or P 0 box number if mail is not delivered to street address) Room /suite B Telephone number 20 GRAMERCY PARK SOUTH 212-984-1444 City or town, state or province, country, and ZIP or foreign postal code C If exemption application is pending , check here NEW YORK , NY 10003 G Check all that apply Initial return Initial return of a former public charity D 1. Foreign organizations, check here Final return Amended return 2. Foreign organizations meeting the 85% test, Address chan g e Name change check here and attach computation ► H Check type of organization ® Section 501(c)(3) exempt private foundation E If private foundation status was terminated 0 Section 4947(a )( 1 ) nonexem pt charitable trust = Other taxable private foundation under section 507(b)(1)(A), check here I Fair market value of all assets at end of year J Accounting method: ® Cash Accrual F If the foundation is in a 60-month termination (from Part II, col.
    [Show full text]
  • Assessing the Effect of News Source Ratings on News Content
    ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF NEWS SOURCE RATINGS ON NEWS CONTENT A GALLUP/KNIGHT FOUNDATION SURVEY COPYRIGHT STANDARDS This document contains proprietary research, copyrighted and trademarked materials of Gallup, Inc. Accordingly, international and domestic laws and penalties guaranteeing patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret protection safeguard the ideas, concepts and recommendations related within this document. The materials contained in this document and/or the document itself may be downloaded and/or copied provided that all copies retain the copyright, trademark and any other proprietary notices contained on the materials and/or document. No changes may be made to this document without the express written permission of Gallup, Inc. Any reference whatsoever to this document, in whole or in part, on any web page must provide a link back to the original document in its entirety. Except as expressly provided herein, the transmission of this material shall not be construed to grant a license of any type under any patents, copyright or trademarks owned or controlled by Gallup, Inc. TM Copyright © 2018 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. Gallup® and Gallup Panel are trademarks of Gallup, Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners. ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF NEWS SOURCE RATINGS ON NEWS CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 3 Research Design 5 Detailed Findings 5 Overall Effect of News Source Ratings on Perceived Accuracy 7 Source Ratings and Partisanship 9 The Effect of Source Ratings on Self-Reported Behaviors 13 Correct Recall of Journalists as Raters 14 Clicking on the More Information Link 15 Who Shared False Stories, and Why? 17 Confidence in the Source Rating Tool 18 Effect of Source Rating Tool on Perceptions of Social Media Platforms and News Aggregators 19 Conclusion 20 Methodology 21 About the John S.
    [Show full text]