Journalist’s Resource, a project of Carnegie-Knight Initiative and Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, recently sat down with Columbia University Journalism School Dean Nicholas Lemann to discuss knowledge-based journalism, politics and campaign coverage, and the future of the profession, among many other things.
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Journalism School student Ben Teitelbaum was a contestant on the game show “Wheel of Fortune” on Tuesday, Nov. 29, solving the first three puzzles of the show and ultimately taking home more than $8,000.
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Cécile Dehesdin ’10 is one of two journalists to be awarded a new prize given by Google and the School of Journalism at Sciences Po in Paris, for innovation in digital journalism.
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The work of several J-School alumni made the New York Times’ list of 100 Notable Books of 2011.
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The buzz on Twitter (#cjsm) started days before the Social Media One-Night Stand, hosted by the Continuing Education Department of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Prof. Sree Sreenavisan, actually began. And it continued throughout the Dec. 1 event and after, ultimately reaching an audience of more than 450,000 followers.
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The Pulitzer Prize Board is moving its journalism competition online and, beginning now, entries in its 14 journalism categories must be submitted electronically. The change, announced today, will affect the 2012 competition, which covers work during calendar 2011.
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Hazel Sheffield, a 2011-2012 Fulbright Alistair Cooke Scholar studying digital media at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was one of hundreds of students and alumni who attended the special Hunter S. Thompson panel last month by the Alumni and Development Office. Sheffield, however, took the event one step further and reviewed “The Rum Diary,” which screened as part of the panel and stars Johnny Depp, for the Economist.
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Earlier this month, Erin Siegal ’09 published “Finding Fernanda,” a book that describes a mother’s search for her lost baby and uncovers a thriving and profitable, multimillion-dollar trade in Guatemalan babies.
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Four prominent alumni of Columbia Journalism School will receive the 2012 Alumni Award. The winners are Gail Collins (Knight- Bagehot Fellow) ’82, Lolis Eric Elie ’86, John Fialka ’62 and Simon Li ’70.
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Columbia Journalism School Professor David Hajdu’s profile of jazz composer Fred Hersch was selected for “Best Music Writing 2011,” a collection edited by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross and published this week by Da Capo Press.
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