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Wallace House Journal WALLACE HOUSE JOURNAL Spring 2017 Volume 26 | No. 2 © BE MY PROD Eight Months and a Vision: Crafting a Nonprofit from the Fellowship BY LAURENT RICHARD ‘17 or over 15 years, I have been producing long-form The need for such an organization is painfully apparent. Finvestigations. I covered Iraq in 2004 and 2015. I have In 2015, a journalist in India was burned alive for reporting on reported from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places where illegal mining. In Azerbaijan, reporter Seymur Hezi and other there is no freedom of the press. Two years ago, on January 7, 2015 journalists have been jailed for reporting about corruption in their at 11:30 a.m., an event in my native France changed my life. The own country. In Mexico, journalists investigating powerful drug journalists of Charlie Hebdo, colleagues who worked on the same cartels are under constant threat of danger. So are journalists in floor as me in an office building in Paris, were murdered by two numerous other countries. terrorists, members of Al Qaeda in Yemen. I saw these The question propelling my fellowship was this: is there journalists every day, and suddenly, with colleagues at a way to create a sort of insurance for information? If a Premières Lignes, I was trying to help those who were journalist is stopped in the midst of a story, is there a way still alive. The massacre made me more aware than ever to make the story unstoppable? Pursuing the answers was of the fragility of a free press. extremely exciting. I arrived in Ann Arbor last September as a Knight- The Knight-Wallace Fellowship was for me a kind Wallace Fellow with a dream in mind: to create an of laboratory. In eight months, I learned how to make international platform devoted to publishing the work a pitch deck, find editorial partners and identify and secure of journalists who have been killed, jailed or threatened. The goal funding. was to defeat censorship through collaborative journalism and guarantee access to independent information on critical topics. I presented my project at the Ross School of Business and worked Over the next eight months I turned my dream into “Freedom with encryption experts from the Center for Computer Security Voices Network,” a nonprofit journalism organization that will and Society to develop a “digital safebox” to allow the secure launch later this year. transfer of information CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Since I assumed this heady new role as U.S. politics. And we held the inaugural Eisendrath Symposium, Director of Wallace House a year ago, I’ve an annual lecture tied to international reporting to honor our beloved Charles. The topic was “Leaks, Whistleblowers and talked and written quite a bit about my desire Big Data: Collaborative Journalism Across Borders.” Our fearless to create a more public presence for the emeritus leader signed the guest book for the event: Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Charles R. Eisendrath, “Enemy of the People.” Awards. It’s a simple enough ambition. This year’s Fellows participated in an impressive number of I think our programs are special campus events. They gave guest lectures on the Flint water crisis in their ability to expand the lives, and how to spot fake news. They developed workshops for young minds and prospects for journalists, reporters at the Michigan Daily, gave talks at Literati bookstore and I want to involve more people and TED Talks on the culmination of their study plans. in what we do. Our unique place We start this issue of the Wallace House Journal with another in the journalism ecosystem also notable accomplishment. Fellow Laurent Richard used his eight provides an ideal platform for months in paradise to develop a nonprofit journalism venture that convening conversations that help will launch in the coming year. That he was able to craft a concept, people understand the essential secure funding and hammer out an implementation plan all while role that journalists play in society. enjoying seminars, long dinners, time with his family, adventurous It was a quirk of timing that this desire to expand Wallace travel and much needed sleep is proof of concept of what a year House’s profile coincided with an onslaught of public hostility at Wallace House can do. toward journalism. Turns out it was the perfect year to be As you read Laurent’s story and the others in this edition, I hope stepping up our activities. We brought back former Fellows fresh you’ll get a sense of where we’re going…and of how much fun off the campaign trail for a pop-up “Covering Trump” event in we’re having along the way. early December. We continued to expand on outreach with The Livingston Lectures series and a timely public conversation at WGBH in Boston on Russian Internet trolling and its influence on LAURENT RICHARD ‘17 CONTINUED for our international newsroom. Along the way, esteemed invaluable to me. We spent countless hours during our fellowship university professors were generous with their time, expertise imagining how Freedom Voices Network would work. and connections. One standout example was J. Alex Halderman, professor of Computer, Science and Engineering, who facilitated Those many hours of crafting and editing the concept paid off. In two video conferences with Edward Snowden in Moscow. the second semester of the fellowship we secured financial support from the organization Reporters Without Borders. After working through various funding scenarios, it was ideal to partner with an I arrived in Ann Arbor last September as organization that has been working in the most dangerous corners a Knight-Wallace Fellow with a dream of the world for 30 years. in mind: to create an international Freedom Voices Network is on target to start before the end of platform devoted to publishing the 2017. Former Knight-Wallace Fellows Edouard Perrin ’16 and work of journalists who have been Bastian Obermayer ’17 are on the board of directors. What a team! killed, jailed or threatened. Could I have created Freedom Voices Network without a Knight- Wallace Fellowship? Yes, probably. But it is not likely that I would have had such a supportive environment in which to develop my thoughts, skills and ambitions. During my time at U-M, no one In Ann Arbor, I was also able to tap the talents of my fellow told me I couldn’t do it or that it would be too complicated. Fellows. Among them was Bastian Obermayer, a reporter from Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich, Germany. Several months before Freedom Voices Network is the culmination of a year of dreams the start of our fellowship, Bastian, working with his German and hard work. It is also the meaning that I want to give to my newspaper and the International Consortium of Investigative life. I believe so much in journalism. And I believe that when Journalists, produced the Panama Papers, the largest data leak journalists are willing to risk their lives in the pursuit of truth in the history of journalism. The massive investigation won a and the free flow of information, other journalists committed Pulitzer Prize and numerous other journalism awards. Because to the same ideals need to help them. That way, we can send a the structure for Freedom Voices Network is built around global powerful signal to enemies of the press: even if you try to stop the collaboration, Bastian’s insights, experience and enthusiasm were messenger, you will not stop the message. 2 WALLACE HOUSE JOURNAL KNIGHT-WALLACE FELLOWS 2017-2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 Dayo Aiyetan 6 Danielle Dreilinger 11 Sang-hun Oh 16 Amy Toensing Executive Director, Reporter, NOLA.com/ Senior Reporter, The Korea Independent Photojournalist International Center for The Times Picayune Economic Daily New Paltz, N.Y. Investigative Reporting New Orleans, La. Seoul, South Korea Study Plan: New ways to teach Abuja, Nigeria Study Plan: Race, class, gender Study Plan: Pension funds and tell stories of women Study Plan: Advancing best and the present relevance of and university funds: through photos and practices for whistle blowing home economics class investment trends in the U.S. documentaries platforms to support investigative reporting in 7 Jennifer Guerra 12 Lois Parshley 17 Mariana Versolato Nigeria Senior Reporter, Independent Writer and Science and Health Editor, Michigan Radio Photographer Folha de São Paulo 2 Alberto Arce Ann Arbor, Mich. Portland, Ore. São Paulo, Brazil Independent Writer and Study Plan: The role and Study Plan: Emerging diseases Study Plan: New models to Reporter responsibility of public media and new approaches to long- organize and present science Mexico City, Mexico in fostering civil discourse form science journalism and health news Study Plan: Understanding Central America as the world’s 8 Matthew Higgins 13 Azi Paybarah 18 Lisa Wangsness deadliest peacetime region Independent Sports Writer Senior Reporter, Politico Religion Reporter, Amherst, N.Y. New York, N.Y. The Boston Globe 3 Regina H. Boone Study Plan: Examining the Study Plan: Reaching beyond Boston, Mass. Staff Photographer, interplay between soccer, natural audiences: Rebuilding Study Plan: Emergent Richmond Free Press status and identity among media credibility through cultural and political issues Richmond, Va. young refugees technology in American Muslim Study Plan: Family, legacy and communities the viability of black newspapers 9 Mark Magnier 14 John Pendygraft China Economics Editor, Senior Photographer, 19 Robert Yoon 4 Candice Choi The Wall Street Journal Tampa Bay Times Director of Political Research, Food Industry Writer, Beijing, China Tampa Bay, Fla. CNN Associated Press Study Plan: Anti-globalization Study Plan: Elevating Washington, D.C.
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