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REUNION WEEKEND SCHEDULE Friday, April 4, 200810:00 a.m. – 12 noon HOW TO DEVELOP A BOOK PROPOSAL in Lecture Hall Samuel G. Freedman teaches a course on how to prepare a book proposal. Freedman is the author of the six books, most recently "Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life" (2005) and "Letters To A Young Journalist" (2006). Freedman was a staff reporter for The Times from 1981 through 1987 and currently writes the column "On Education," as well as frequent articles on culture. Freedman was named the nation's outstanding journalism educator in 1997 by the Society of Professional Journalists. His class in book-writing has developed more than 35 authors, editors, and agents, and it has been featured in Publishers Weekly and the Christian Science Monitor. 12 noon – 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. THE CASE STUDY METHOD IN JOURNALISM SCHOOL in Lecture Hall The case method is a novel one for the Journalism School. Students are given a case—an actual narrative about an event in the life of a news gathering organization—in which someone has to make a decision, or a series of decision, whose impact will be felt by employees, sources, subjects of stories and, in some instances, the industry. Through class discussion, students have the opportunity to examine in depth a wide range of editorial, ethical and economic issues. Michael Shapiro worked at newspapers in New Jersey and Chicago for five years before becoming a magazine writer. His work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated. He is the author of five non-fiction books, "Japan: In the Land of the Broken Hearted", "The Shadow in the Sun", "Who Will Teach for America", "Solomon’s Sword" and "The Last Good Season". 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CAREER SERVICES OPEN HOUSE in 2M07 offices (off Stabile Student Center) Meet the staff from the Office of Career Services, and hear about programs in place to assist our community of students and graduates. Pose questions about your career and get a few pointers about transitioning to a new position or advancing in your current job. 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. COVERING RELIGION in Lecture Hall Ari Goldman's course prepares journalists to write about religion for a secular audience. The course looks at major religions today through case studies of how religion is evolving in different parts of the world. Goldman has been teaching at the Journalism School since 1993 and is the director of the school’s Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life. Goldman also co-directs the University’s Religion-Journalism Dual M.A. Program in which students spend one year at the Journalism School and a second at Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences studying religion. Before coming to school, he spent 20 years at The New York Times, most of it as a religion writer. He is the author of three books: "The Search for God at Harvard", a New York Times Notable Book in 1991, "Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today" (2000) and "Living a Year of Kaddish" (2003). CULTURAL AFFAIRS REPORTING AND WRITING in Faculty Room of Low Library David Hajdu teaches acourse to help journalists understand and write with authority on culture – that is, on the world of the arts, entertainment, and living. Hajdu has been a journalist covering the arts and culture for more than twenty-five years. He currently serves as the music critic for The New Republic, and he writes for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, and Vanity Fair. Hajdu was the general editor of Entertainment Weekly in the 1990s. He is the author of three books, most recently "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008), "Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn" and "Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina." 3:00 p.m. SHOW DON’T TELL in 607B The proliferation of job-search Web sites, the ease with which people can apply for jobs online and the incredible shrinking world of print journalism have conspired to make the job search harder than it used to be. Times have changed, and so have resumes and cover letters. Career Services Assistant Director Gina Boubion will share the secrets of a winning cover letter and resume. She’ll also walk you through the pitch letter, with examples of beauties and duds. 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. FIGURING OUT BLOGS, WEB 2.0 & WHATEVER'S NEXT in Lecture Hall The best blogs for and by journalists and how you can join the blogging revolution as a consumer and/or creator of blogs - and how to make sense of all the other new technologies changing our business. Also discussed:How you can improve your old-media work and make money in the world of Web 2.0. Sree Sreenivasan is Dean of Students and runs the new media program. He is also the technology reporter for WNBC-TV. He appears on the air (and online) twice a week in New York City and contributes occasionally to NBC News programs. He previously spent six years as WABC's Tech Guru. A founding member of Online News Association and the founding administrator of the Online Journalism Awards, he serves as judging leader for the online category of the National Magazine Awards. His work explaining technology has appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, and Popular Science (where he was a member of the "Geek Chorus"). In March 2004, Newsweek magazine named him one of the 20 most influential South Asians in the nation. 4:30 p.m. IF WE ONLY KNEW THEN: AN INTERGENERATIONAL DISCUSSION OF HOW JOURNALISM HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER, OR NOT in Room 601B
Moderated by Jim Willse ’68, editor, The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) 5:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. ALUMNI AWARDS CEREMONY The Alumni Awards are given to alumni of the Graduate School of Journalism for a distinguished journalism career in any medium, for an outstanding single accomplishment in journalism, for notable contributions to journalism education, or for achievement in related fields. Steve Kroft ’75, a correspondent with 60 Minutes, will present the awards during the Journalism School's Alumni Weekend on Friday, April 4, 2008 at Columbia University. The 2008 award committee was chaired by A’Lelia Bundles ’76.
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ALUMNI AWARDS RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING BY ALUMNI AUTHORS Books written by alumni authors in 2007 will be on display and alumni authors will be available to sign their books from 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Alumni Book FairThe Alumni Book Fair has become one of the most popular events during Alumni Weekend, with dozens of graduates participating in the book signing following the Alumni Awards ceremony. We invite authors who have published a book between April 2007 and April 2008 to participate in the Book Fair on Friday, April 4 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Rotunda of Low Library. Books published by the authors will be on display and for sale during the reception. Our office will work with the Columbia University Bookstore to order copies of your book.If you would like to participate in the Alumni Book Fair or if you have any questions, please contact our office by February 15, 2008. Our email address is alumni@jrn.columbia.edu. Please include your name, year of graduation, title of your book and publishers contact information. Saturday, April 5, 20089:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST in Stabile Student Center 25TH & 50TH REUNION CLASSES RECEPTION WITH DEAN NICHOLAS LEMANN 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Having a tough time keeping up with all the technology changes around you? Worried that there's some new tech tip or cool site that all your friends and family already know about but you don't? Then this fast-paced seminar aimed at writers and other media professionals is for you. You will learn about some terrific new ideas that will make you more efficient, help you with your work, and improve your online life. You will leave with more than 10 ideas, a useful handout and a whole new outlook on technology. After this you will be the one showing off to your friends and family. JOURNALISM AND BEYOND in World Room Joe Seldner is a media, entertainment and business veteran who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Magazine, Parents Magazine, Boston Globe and Newsweek and produced movies for Paramount Pictures and Home Box Office. He was development executive for actor Tom Hanks at Walt Disney Studios, assistant to the president of Columbia Pictures, and speechwriter for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. He has an MBA from Yale University and degrees in journalism and psychology from Columbia University. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: THE MOTHER OF ALL HEISTS
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60 Minutes Producers Andy Court and Keith Sharman take you behind the scenes of this year’s duPont Award-winning report, “The Mother of All Heists,” about massive high-level corruption in Iraq that allowed at least half a billion dollars to be wasted, lost or diverted into private pockets. Court and Sharman worked with correspondent Steve Kroft traveling to London, Paris, and Jordan to discover what happened to the money intended to rebuild Iraq and its military forces. They led a team of reporters who interviewed arms dealers, bankers, money-changers, and even a chimney sweep. They found widespread waste on helicopters that would not fly, bulletproof vests that fell apart and other useless equipment purchased for the newly reconstituted Iraqi Army. The team uncovered photos and audio recordings implicating suspects who fled Iraq before Iraqi investigators could arrest them, but the U.S. and its allies did little to help investigators bring the suspects to justice. And the Investigation continues as the team is currently working on a follow-up story. Sheila Coronel is the inaugural director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Coronel began her reporting career in 1982 when she joined the staff of Philippine Panorama, a widely-read magazine. As Ferdinand Marcos gradually lost political power, Sheila reported on human rights abuses, the growing democratic movement, and the election of Corazon Aquino as president. She later joined the staff of the Manila Times as a political reporter, and also wrote special reports for The Manila Chronicle. As a stringer for The New York Times and The Guardian (London), she covered seven attempted coups d'etat against the Aquino government. In 1989, Coronel and her colleagues founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) to promote investigative reporting. The PCIJ trains journalists in investigative skills, and has provided an environment for in-depth, groundbreaking reporting. The Center has investigated and reported on major social issues including the military, poverty, and corruption. Under Sheila's leadership, the Center became the premier investigative reporting institution in the Philippines and Asia. 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. CLASS PHOTOS in Faculty Room of Low Library 11:00 a.m. 1983 12 noon ALUMNI LUNCHEON Keynote Speaker DAVID DENBY is a film critic and staff writer at The New Yorker. In the past, he has been film critic of The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Phoenix, and, from 1978 to 1998, New York magazine. A graduate of Columbia College, he is the author of "Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World" (1997), which has been translated into nine languages, and "American Sucker" (2005). Presentation of the Founder’s Award to Professor Judith Crist '45 Judith Crist went directly from journalism school to a 22-year career at the New York Herald Tribune as a reporter, arts editor and film critic, concurrently beginning a 10-year stint as film and theater critic for NBC's Today Show, and a 22-year stand as TV Guide's movie reviewer. After the Tribune's demise she became the founding film critic for New York magazine. Subsequently, she served as film critic for the New York Post, for a number of weekly and monthly publications, and for WOR-TV. She has published articles in such magazines as Ladies Home Journal and Gourmet. Crist is the author of three books on film: "The Private Eye, The Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl", "Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies" and "Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking". She has won a number of professional awards, including the George Polk Award. Other honors include election to Hunter College's Hall of Fame, awards from Columbia Journalism School and the University's alumni associations, a lifetime achievement award from the Society of the Silurians and a DHL degree from SUNY New Paltz. She has been an adjunct at the school since 1958. Presentation of the Dean's Medal for Public Service to Phil Hardberger '60, mayor of San Antonio Phil Hardberger is in his second term as mayor of San Antonio, the nation's seventh largest city. During the Mayor’s first term, City Council tackled a $550 million bond referendum, the largest in city history and the first to focus on citywide improvements rather than projects by districts. Voters overwhelmingly endorsed a package to improve to streets, sidewalks, drainage, libraries and parks. Hardberger, a Texas native, served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force where he piloted the B-47 bomber. He then went on to serve as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Peace Corps during the Kennedy Administration and as Special Assistant to the Director in the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity under President Lyndon Johnson. Following a distinguished legal career in San Antonio, he was elected Associate Justice and then Chief Justice of the Fourth Court of Appeals. His past honors include the 1999 Star of Texas Public Service Award for Judicial Ethics and Excellence and the St. Mary’s School of Law’s Rosewood Gavel Award. Hardberger was named Texas Judge of the Year in 2003, and was given the National Council of Chief Judges’ highest award in 2004. Presentation of the Dean’s Citation to Howard J. Brown ’48, president of United Communications Corp Sixty years after graduating from Columbia, Howard J. Brown remains actively involved in journalism. He is president of United Communications Corporation (UCC), which owns small daily newspapers, weeklies, shoppers and TV stations in six states. He is actively involved with the Corporation’s largest newspaper, the Kenosha (Wis) News. Brown is known for his dedication to high journalistic standards and the communities in which UCC operates. Earlier last year, he was inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame. The Inland Press Association and the International Newspaper Marketing Association have each honored him with their most prestigious award. In Kenosha, Brown is trustee emeritus of Carthage College, president of Kenosha Christmas Charities, Inc. (Goodfellows), and a director of the Y.M.C.A., Greater Kenosha Foundation and the Kenosha Jewish Welfare Fund. He graduated from Princeton University and served in the Army’s 44th Infantry and Military Government in Germany during World War II. Immediately after graduation from Columbia, Brown served one year overseas for the Chicago Sun-Times. He then worked at the Cleveland Plain Dealer for nine years and Ottaway newspapers for three before joining the Kenosha paper in 1961. 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. '68 CLASS MEETING A get-together for the class of '68 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. BEHIND THE PULITZER PRIZE in Lecture Hall Sig Gissler, former editor of The Milwaukee Journal, joined the faculty in 1994 and became administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2002. Gissler worked on the Libertyville (Ill.) Independent-Register and was executive editor of the Waukegan (Ill.) News-Sun before joining The Milwaukee Journal in 1967, working as a reporter, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editor. Gissler was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center. At Columbia, he founded the “Let’s Do It Better” workshops on journalism, race and ethnicity. In 1997, he served as the journalism school’s interim associate dean. In 1998, he was named “teacher of the year” by journalism students and in 2002 he received the university’s Presidential Teaching Award. COVERING THE VIETNAM WAR in World Room The participants and the news organizations they represented: B. Drummond Ayres Jr. (New York Times), Bruce Dunning (CBS), Barry Kramer (AP, Wall Street Journal), Richard J. Levine (Wall Street Journal), Robert Pisor (Detroit News) and Dan Southerland (Christian Science Monitor). Edith (Edie) Lederer, who reported for AP, will moderate the panel. 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Todd Gitlin attended New York City public schools, where he graduated as valedictorian of the Bronx High School of Science. He holds degrees in three different subjects: mathematics (B. A., Harvard), political science (M. A., Michigan), and sociology (Ph. D., Berkeley). Along the way, he became a political activist in the New Left of the 1960s, wrote for the so-called underground press, and began to write. He's written 12 books, most recently, "The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Of Identities and Ideals in the Uproar of American Politics" (John Wiley, September 2007). His other books include "Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago" (co-author, 1970); "The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Left" (1980); "Inside Prime Time" (1983); "The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage" (1987); "The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars" (1995); "Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives" (2002); "Letters To a Young Activist" (2003); "The Intellectuals and the Flag" (2006); Also a book of poetry, "Busy Being Born" (1974), and two novels: The Murder of Albert Einstein (1992) and Sacrifice (1999), the latter of which won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for novels on Jewish themes. 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. The panel discussion by practicing multi-media journalists, producers and creators will examine the varieties of current Alternative Media, others likely to develop, and their impact, current and projected, on the Global Village. What are the threats from government regulation and interference, of sabotage from any electronic quarter? What is this emergent media's intellectual and financial capacity -- trained journalists, access to an array of sources, economic potential? How can MSM confront the challenge? Bruce B. Brugmann and his wife Jean Dibble founded the Guardian in l966 as an independent, locally owned and edited alternative newsweekly specializing in investigative reporting, progressive politics, and First Amendment issues. They have been publishing the Guardian continuously for the past 4l years. Brugmann is a founder and former president of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), the trade association that now numbers 129 alternative papers in most U.S. cities, more coming all the time, with a total circulation of 7.5 million readers. He is a founder, former president, and current director of the California First Amendment Coalition and was awarded CFAC's Beacon award for his work on behalf of the First Amendment and open government. The California Newspaper Publishers Association gave him its first annual Freedom of Information award in 1998. He is known as the Godfather of the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance, the first and best local open government ordinance in the nation. Brugmann was awarded in 1988 the Newspaper Executive of the Year award by the California Press Association and lifetime achievement awards from the Northern California chapter and national Society of Professional Journalists. He is a member of the executive committee of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA based in Miami), a fellow of the International Press Institute (IPI, based in Vienna), and a member of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN, based in Paris.) Jan F. Constantine currently serves as General Counsel for The Authors Guild, a non-profit organization representing a membership of over 8,000 published authors and freelancers. In this capacity, she is responsible for overseeing The Authors Guild, et al v. Google, Inc., a class action lawsuit, filed in September 2005. Ms. Constantine has also been Of Counsel to Constantine Cannon since July 2005 and, on January 1, 2007, became a Partner of the Firm. Ms. Constantine specializes in intellectual property and employment law, and has counseled clients in numerous areas including the First Amendment, copyright, advertising and marketing and, antitrust and trade regulation. From April 1991 through June 2005, Ms. Constantine was employed by the News Corporation (“News Corp.”) as Senior Vice President, and as Executive Vice President and Senior Deputy General Counsel of its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, News America Incorporated. During her fourteen-year tenure at News Corp., Ms. Constantine was responsible for legal matters for U.S. operations encompassing litigation, intellectual property mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, antitrust and trade regulation, First Amendment, and employment and labor. She also supervised the in-house legal department and outside counsel in dealing with these matters. Victor S. Navasky is the author, among other books, of Kennedy Justice (1971), Naming Names (which won a National Book Award, 1982) and A Matter of Opinion (which won the George Polk Book Award, 2005). He worked as an editor of The New York Times Magazine, where he also wrote a column, "In Cold Print" for The New York Times Book Review. Beginning in 1978, he was editor and then publisher of The Nation, America's oldest weekly magazine, where he is now Publisher Emeritus. He has freelanced for scores of magazines. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (Phi Beta Kappa, 1954), and the Yale Law School, 1959, where he founded, edited and published Monocle Magazine, "a leisurely quarterly of political satire". Anthony Pell is president/CEO and founder of GHIF (Global Home & Infrastructure Finance, Inc.). A specialist in corporate development and project management, Pell is a political and economic consultant and startup organizer. Early in his career, while doing an advanced degree in Political Science in Paris, he was Overnight Desk Chief for Agence France-Presse. During the 1960s for CBS News, Paris, he was a reporter, production assistant and acting bureau chief. Pell migrated to Public Affairs, joining the first Europen VC corporation, through which he became the founding director of Tribune Medicale of the Sackler publishing group. Later during the 1970s he helped grow one company from sales of $2 to $50 million and was Deputy Chairman of a Middle East project with annual revenues of $250 million. Another startup venture became the leading European provider of hospital supplies (acquired by Searle) and yet another, back in the US, the cutting-edge specialist in scientific software for oil & gas E&P. Among current activities, Mr. Pell is working with Governments and private sectors in Russia, Congo (Kin), South Africa, Peru, Brazil, and the U.S. in areas extending from housing finance, investments and finance to public affairs. Mr. Pell organized GHIF, conceptualized its low-income Housing Partnership Program. He is on the Advisory Board of the Global Urban Institute, Dartmouth, Columbia Journalism, Institut de Sciences Politiques (Paris), Harvard Business School. 6:00 p.m. CLASS SOCIALS (in progress...) 1948 Friday, April 4: 7:00 p.m. dinner at Trattoria Dopo Teatro, 125 W. 44th Street (between 6th Avenue and Broadway). Contact Ned Gerrity for more information at NGerrity@aol.com or 914-967-0516 (will be available at this number after April 3). 1953 Saturday, April 5: 6:30 p.m. drinks and dinner hosted by Mike and Thelma Kandel at their home, 110 Riverside Drive (at 83rd Street) 1958 Saturday, April 5: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. drinks, 7:00 p.m. dinner at Alouette, 2588 Broadway (between 97th and 98th streets). Contact Marc Raizman, class agent, for information. 1963 Saturday, April 5: 6:30 p.m cocktails and buffet dinner hosted by Barry Kramer at 265 East 66th Street, Apt. 28B (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) 1968 Friday, April 4: 8:00 p.m., following the Alumni Awards, the back room at Symposium restaurant, 544 W. 113th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) Saturday, April 5: 7:00 p.m., Mary Breasted's apartment, 16 West 77th St., #12F 1973 Saturday, April 5: 9:00 p.m. at Ari Goldman’s home, 438 West 116th Street, Apt. 43 (corner of Amsterdam). RSVP to alumni@jrn.columbia.edu 1978 Saturday, April 5: 7:00 p.m. Havana Central at the West End (between 113th and 114th streets) 1983 Saturday, April 5: 7:00 p.m. Hosted by Michael Rosenblum at 15 West 53rd Street (between 5th and 6th). Bring a bottle of wine and RSVP to Michael at michael@rosenblumtv.com 1988 Saturday, April 5: 6:00 p.m. Radio Perfecto, 1187 Amsterdam Avenue (at 118th Street) 1993 The event on Friday, April 4 at Sree Sreenivasan's apartment has been cancelled. Saturday, April 5: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. drinks at Jim Simon’s home (Park Avenue at 39th Street). RSVP to alumni@jrn.columbia.edu by March 20 for address and details. 1998 Saturday, April 5: 7:30 p.m. at Ravagh Restaurant, 11 East 30th Street (between 5th & Madison Avenue). RSVP to Trevor Butterworth. 2003 Saturday, April 5: 6:30 – 10:00 p.m. 420 Bar and Lounge, 420 Amsterdam Avenue at West 80th Street, lower level. Cash Bar. Visit Accommodations to plan your weekend. Questions? Contact the Alumni Office at 212-854-3864 or e-mail alumni@jrn.columbia.edu
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