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10 Columbia Journalism sChool Winter 2010 Class notes — 1957 Madeleine M. Kunin received the Eleanor Roosevelt Medal for Public Service at Val-Kill, the former first lady’s Hyde Park retreat. 1959 Robert Lipsyte, a long-time city and sports columnist for The New York Times, is the host of “Life (Part 2),” a weekly PBS show on how the boomer generation deals with kids, parents, sex, marriage and personal reinvention as it ages in hard times. To get your local listing, check the Web site http://www.pbs. org/lifepart2. 1960 50th class reunion April 22-24, 2010! After Phil Hardberger ended his term as San Antonio mayor, the veteran sailor and his wife Linda set off on a trip through Middle America, from Port Aransas to the shores of Lake Michigan, finding solitude and friends along the way as they traveled upriver in a boat named Aimless. 1967 Philip Smith is vice president for communications at the Ethics Resource Center (Arlington, Va.). After graduation, Smith went straight to the U.S. Navy, followed by almost 20 years at The Washington Post, then a stint as a press secretary in the U.S. Senate. Smith remarried in 2008, to a fellow Senate press secretary from across the legislative aisle. 1968 Jim Willse retired as editor of The Star Ledger (Newark, N.J.) in October. After taking off some time to travel, he will become a visiting professor at Princeton University, where he’ll conduct a seminar on the business of news. 1970 40th class reunion April 22-24, 2010! Margie (McBride) Lehrman won another Emmy as part of the NBC News team selected for its 2008 election-night coverage. After 30 years at NBC, Margie retired June 1. William Wong is blogging on sfgate.com’s City Brights blog (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ blogs/wwong/index). miChele monTaS ’69 — Michele Montas has been named winner of the 2010 Dean’s Medal for Distinguished Service, which recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to society through his or her professional accomplishments and civic involvement. Montas is an award-winning journalist who has dedicated her life to securing democracy and freedom in Haiti. Appointed spokesperson for United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon in January 2007, Montas formerly headed the French unit of U.N. Radio and, in 2003 to 2004, she served as the spokesperson for the president of the General Assembly. Montas is the former editor-in-chief and anchor at Radio Haiti Inter, where she began reporting in 1973. Working with her husband, Jean Dominique, she exposed human rights abuses, political corruption and state-sponsored violence in their native Haiti. The couple’s work resulted in their arrest, harassment and forced exile. Upon their return to Haiti in 2000, Jean Dominique was assassinated. Montas took over the radio station but shut it down in 2003 and fled to New York after receiving death threats and surviving an attack on her home. These events were chronicled by Jonathan Demme in a film called “The Agronomist.” With her husband no longer at her side, she continues their work of promoting democracy and human rights in Haiti. 1972 Anthony Mauro has been elected chair of the executive committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Since 1970, the committee has offered free legal assistance to journalists in First Amendment, access, and freedom of information disputes. Mauro is Supreme Court correspondent for National Law Journal and Incisive Media. 1976 Ed Hersh was named senior vice president, strategic planning, for Investigation Discovery, based in the New York office, responsible for creating the long-term content, production, acquisition, marketing and promotion strategy for the network. Hersh was previously chief creative officer of StoryCentric LLC, a company he founded to provide executivelevel strategic and programming BarBara CoChran ’68 — Barbara Cochran, president emeritus of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), was honored in October with the Giants of Broadcasting Award from the Library of American Broadcasting. For 28 years, Cochran, pictured here, right, with Katie Couric, was a journalist in Washington and held management positions in print, radio and television. She was managing editor of The Washington Star, vice president for news at National Public Radio, executive producer of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and vice president and Washington bureau chief at CBS News. Cochran retired as president of RTNDA in June 2009 after leading the organization for 12 years. Cochran shared some thoughts about the value of a journalism education today: “With so much change roiling the news business today, a lot of journalism students wonder whether they’re making a good career choice,” Cochran said. “I envy them because they have the opportunity to participate in a revolution — a revolution as exciting as the one I experienced when I started my career just as newsrooms were opening up to women and people of color. They will get to design the new journalism, to figure out how to use new technologies to have more impact. They will need to master and defend the traditional standards — journalism that is accurate, ethical and meaningful. But they can be the pioneers who will invent the way to tell news in the future.” insight to content producers and networks. Hersh joined Court TV in 2001 and spent seven years in leadership roles at the network, most recently as executive vice president, current programming and specials. Prior to his tenure at Court TV, Hersh was vice president, documentary programming for A&E Television Network, where he led the development, production and strategy for the network’s signature investigation series, including “Investigative Reports,” “American Justice” and A&E documentary specials. An award-winning journalist and producer, Hersh spent more than 16 years at ABC News in senior production roles for programming ranging from “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” to “Vietnam: The Soldier’s Story” (for The Learning Channel) and the newsmagazine “Day One.” A two-time winner of the duPont-Columbia Award, Hersh also received an Emmy for the ABC News special “Peter Jennings Reporting: Who Is Ross Perot?” and his work has been honored by the National Association of Black Journalists, the Gabriel Awards, the National Association of Science Writers and the American Bar Association. Gail Reed is the international director of Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC), an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization that develops programs
iCharD m. SmiTh ’70 — Richard M. Smith ’70, chairman of Newsweek, was honored with a Columbia Alumni Medal, which recognizes alumni for distinguished service of 10 years or more to the University. Smith was a member of President Bollinger’s task force on rethinking journalism education and has been a member of the Journalism School’s Board of Visitors for more than 15 years. He is pictured here with his wife Dr. Soon-Young Yoon, their daughter Song-Mee and her friend Nick Maietta. bridging the U.S., Cuban and global medical, nursing and public health communities. She is executive editor of MEDICC Review, a quarterly journal on Cuban medicine and public health. Reed has written on social and economic issues in Cuba for the last two decades. From 1993 to 1997, Reed regularly contributed to BusinessWeek magazine, and from 1994 to 1996, was producer in Havana for NBC News. Joe Seldner is producing a feature film for which he wrote the script titled “Redemption,” to be directed by Tony- and Golden Globe-winning actor Brian Dennehy. The movie is based on one of the cases of Jim McCloskey, who founded and runs Centurion Ministries, an organization that has freed more than 40 wrongly convicted people in 30 years. Seldner is also the executive producer of “Believe It or Not” for Paramount Pictures, to be directed by Chris Columbus, who directed “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Home Alone,” two Harry Potter movies and more. But most of all, he’s loving being a grandfather to gorgeous Liliana, who turned 2 in May. 1977 Boyd F. Campbell was selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of “The Best Lawyers in America” in the field of immigration law. Campbell has been in private practice in Montgomery since 1988 and has served as general counsel of the Alabama Center for Foreign Investment, L.L.C., since 2006. He serves as a mentor for members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is serving his second year as vice chair of AILA’s EB-5 Investors Committee. Frances Hardin is director of communications for the Project on National Security Reform. PNSR is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization funded by Congress to analyze and recommend how to improve the country’s national security system. Last fall, PNSR issued an 800-page report that made specific recommendations for overhauling national security. Several of PNSR’s board members are now serving in the Obama administration, including National Security Adviser Jim Jones, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, Under Secretaries of Defense Michele Flournoy and Ashton Carter, Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg. 1978 Patricia Leigh Brown is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. Based in San Francisco, Brown is a contributing writer for The New York Times and Architectural Digest. For 14 years she was a staff writer for the House & Home section of The Times in New York, where she reported on everything from prairie churches in North Dakota to basement voodoo temples in Brooklyn. She is currently working on a series of articles on Fremont, Calif., one of the country’s new “ethnoburbs.” She has been a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. As a Loeb Fellow, Brown will study civic engagement, landscape history, urbanism, multicultural law, and the role of community in challenging economic times. She is particularly interested in the changing ethnic demographics of the suburbs and new housing models for aging baby boomers. Jonathan Landman, a deputy managing editor of The New York Times, was named the new culture editor. For the last four years, Landman has headed the effort to unite the printed Times and nytimes.com into a single, seamless operation. Landman served as acting culture editor in 2004 and 2005, when he reorganized the department. He has been an editor on the newspaper’s masthead since 2003, first as assistant managing editor overseeing the paper’s longest, most ambitious reporting projects. Previously, he was the metropolitan editor, the editor of the Week in Review section, acting editor of the Sunday Business section and deputy editor of the Washington bureau. Landman joined The Times in 1987 after having been deputy city editor of the Daily News in New York and a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and at Newsday. Andrés Oppenheimer won the VII ALGABA prize in biography, autobiography, memoirs and historical research for a collection of columns that ran in the newspaper and will be published in the book “The Non-United States of the Americas.” The award came with a prize of $34,404. The pieces examined the inability of Latin American countries to integrate. Oppenheimer received the prize Oct. 21 at a ceremony in Madrid. Oppenheimer is a columnist with The Miami Herald and is a member of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987. Gloria Rubio-Cortes is now executive editor of the National Civic Review, a quarterly journal in its 98th year. She also serves as the president of the National Civic League, the co-publisher of the National Civic Review. 1980 30th class reunion April 22-24, 2010! John Finck was appointed to the Bank Street College board. Finck and his wife, Eve Burton, vice president and general counsel for the Hearst Corporation, have two children at the school. For 15 years, Finck worked in humanitarian aid for the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement and the U.S. State Department. He directed programs that resettled 10,000 refugees a year from Asia, Africa, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 26 states. He is a founding board member of Legal Aid of Cambodia, an NGO based in Phnom Penh, and president of the Outsiders Baseball Association in the Bronx. Fred Johnson launched “Point of Departure,” a music blog. “‘Point of Departure’ takes an eclectic approach to the music of black folks,” Johnson said. “In this podcast series we will cross boundaries, blur distinctions and bend genres in the service of finger popping, foot tapping, head bobbing and other involuntary physical responses to international, cross-generational, multicultural swing. Feel me?” 1981 Andrea Stone is joining AOL’s general news site as senior Washington correspondent. Stone will be the team leader for the site’s Washington coverage, translating D.C. for the general reader. She was with Gannett, almost all at USA Today, for the past 25 years. 1982 Jonathan Bor is a senior editor at Health Affairs, the health policy journal, in Bethesda, Md. Before starting there last April, he had spent 20 years as a medical reporter for The Baltimore Sun (jonathansbor@gmail.com). Anisa Mehdi, a Fulbright Scholar in Amman, Jordan, has started a Wayne DaWkinS ’80 — In May 1980, over drinks at the West End tavern, two dozen new Columbia J-School graduates promised to stay in touch even as they fanned out to opportunities near and far. Wayne Dawkins initiated the Black Alumni Network (BAN) newsletter, two pages of news and notes on one 8.5-inch by 11-inch sheet and punched out on a manual typewriter. The sheet was photocopied and mailed monthly. Dawkins, now a professor at Hampton University in Virginia, still serves as founding editor. The newsletter mission expanded. Future classes of J-School students were cultivated and contacts made with alumni from previous classes. Staying connected — networked to each other and to the graduate school — was a guiding principle. So were minority recruitment, retention and opportunity in journalism. In 2005, the first Black Alumni Network scholarship was awarded. It is now called the Black Alumni Network/Phyllis T. Garland scholarship, and BAN supporters are 88 percent toward their goal of endowing the scholarship. About 90 percent of subscribers receive their monthly BAN Newsletter by e-mail. The newsletter can also be accessed from the www.journalism. columbia.edu Web site. 11
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